It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsTheir wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him.
Mark
Gospels / MarkNow will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest, and he had no war in those years; because the LORD had given him rest.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraNow when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them unto the Levites.
Numbers
Law / MosesThese are the journeys of the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Numbers
Law / MosesLay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
Numbers
Law / MosesDoth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not.
Luke
GospelsThe wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahNow in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.
Matthew
GospelsBetter is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomNotwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnBecause thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this thing unto thee this day.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.
Genesis
LawAre thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,
Job
Wisdom / JobWhich was the son of Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad, which was the son of Sem, which was the son of Noe, which was the son of Lamech,
Luke
Gospels / LukeSo Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,
Acts
HistoryAnd Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.