Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
Psalms
PoetryGo, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines;
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.
John
GospelsAnd now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them,
Judges
HistoryWhom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down.
Mark
GospelsA gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.
Proverbs
WisdomThen ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
Numbers
Law / MosesFor thy servant David's sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen came to him his mother and his brethren, and could not come at him for the press.
Luke
GospelsAnd whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
Daniel
Major ProphetsWhen I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsI receive not honour from men.
John
GospelsAnd they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Acts
History / LukeAnd they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink?
Luke
Gospels / LukeThe children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.
Nehemiah
HistoryThe eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.
Psalms
PoetryIn the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
Leviticus
LawAnd he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.
Genesis
LawAnd among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives: namely, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
Ezra
History / EzraI have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.