And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
Proverbs
WisdomAn ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanIt is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD'S: it is holy unto the LORD.
Leviticus
LawAnd if any man say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye that the Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will send him hither.
Mark
GospelsOn that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king.
Esther
HistoryWhom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts;
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThere shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBehold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
Psalms
PoetryWho leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
Proverbs
WisdomThou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesLet no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulIt is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Psalms
PoetryAccording to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraHe was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen;