A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAll sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
Psalms
PoetryFor in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well's mouth.
Genesis
Law / MosesI will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterThen there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.
Genesis
Law / MosesWe will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBehold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
Acts
HistoryO righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.
Genesis
Law / MosesHe looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke.
Psalms
PoetryAt that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThe officers answered, Never man spake like this man.
John
GospelsAnd Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?
Genesis
LawAnd ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
John
Gospels / JohnThe children of Zattu, eight hundred forty and five.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahIt shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
Solomon's Song
Poetry / Solomon(Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)
John
Gospels / JohnAnd thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.