Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,
Acts
History / LukeHe answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
Matthew
GospelsFor I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.
Acts
History / LukeThus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
Genesis
LawWhere is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulLet the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulOf Judah; Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
Numbers
LawHe measured then the gate from the roof of one little chamber to the roof of another: the breadth was five and twenty cubits, door against door.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAlso unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.
Psalms
PoetryThe LORD do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it please my father to do thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the LORD be with thee, as he hath been with my father.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
Judges
HistoryAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:
Exodus
LawAnd said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.
Matthew
GospelsIn that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
2 Samuel
HistoryShould he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewHe offered for his offering one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: