Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIn the multitude of people is the king's honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjath-jearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back.
Judges
HistoryBut the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Numbers
Law / Moses(And his daughter was Sherah, who built Beth-horon the nether, and the upper, and Uzzen-sherah.)
1 Chronicles
HistoryCome near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBecause he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,
Acts
HistoryThou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAs the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
Exodus
LawAnd Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:
Genesis
LawThou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersA righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonYe yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
John
Gospels / JohnWe lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIt may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahI give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd for the house he made windows of narrow lights.