Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThen I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahCircumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of that gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Jahazah, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
Joshua
History / JoshuaFor in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
Hebrews
General EpistlesHe maketh my feet like hinds' feet: and setteth me upon my high places.
2 Samuel
HistoryBut the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
Exodus
LawWoe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
Luke
GospelsUnto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnSee, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThe lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd all the people, even the people of war that were with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between them and Ai.
Joshua
HistoryFor even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Mark
GospelsAnd his armourbearer said unto him, Do all that is in thine heart: turn thee; behold, I am with thee according to thy heart.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelIs it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesBring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them.
Titus
Pauline EpistlesNow I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.
Judges
HistoryHe that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
John
GospelsYet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.