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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And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.
Judges
HistoryAnd from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the face of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThere shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
Leviticus
Law / MosesSay unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielIt was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles.
Luke
GospelsAnd it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which was of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
Matthew
GospelsIn Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWe are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsIf any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth Saul's son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanNight and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he said unto them, Take nothing for your journey, neither staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece.
Luke
GospelsThus they inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the sunrising.
Judges
HistoryAnd it was so, as she rode on the ass, that she came down by the covert of the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down against her; and she met them.
1 Samuel
HistoryYe shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus
LawThe beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.