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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And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei.
Numbers
LawThe foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
Psalms
PoetryAnd if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
Exodus
LawThat we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
1 Samuel
HistoryThen there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest.
Luke
GospelsAnd he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.
Exodus
LawAnd Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
1 Samuel
HistoryI removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
Psalms
PoetryThis is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
Acts
HistoryThe king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;
Joshua
History / JoshuaWherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
Matthew
GospelsAnd Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes.
Matthew
GospelsAnd Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and there eat it with the bread that is in the basket of consecrations, as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.
Leviticus
LawAnd what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:
Genesis
LawBut if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not, it is a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd gather thou all the congregation together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Moses said unto the congregation, This is the thing which the LORD commanded to be done.
Leviticus
LawNow no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
Hebrews
General EpistlesThe righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd David smote Hadarezer king of Zobah unto Hamath, as he went to stablish his dominion by the river Euphrates.