It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life.
Exodus
LawWoe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept.
2 Kings
HistoryMy soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAlso out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd his sister Hammoleketh bare Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you.
Numbers
LawBut even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThe nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
Job
WisdomAnd when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
Judges
HistoryAnd it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, From all places whence ye shall return unto us they will be upon you.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
Psalms
PoetryTherefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.
Micah
Minor ProphetsAnd the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.
Genesis
LawAnd she had a garment of divers colours upon her: for with such robes were the king's daughters that were virgins apparelled. Then his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:
Leviticus
Law / MosesFor the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations.
Exodus
Law / MosesThen returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey.
Acts
History / LukeArise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.