For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
Leviticus
LawAnd it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.
Genesis
LawAnd the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnSaying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
Luke
GospelsThe censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBetter is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?
Matthew
GospelsHear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterBut thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men.
Genesis
Law / MosesSimeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
Genesis
Law / MosesWhose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
Hebrews
General EpistlesNow Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:
John
Gospels / JohnFor I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Job
WisdomAnd if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Genesis
LawThen Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
Revelation
ApocalypticWhen the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
1 Samuel
HistoryWhen Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaThis was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?