Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
Genesis
LawAnd even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd, behold, an hand touched me, which set me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd their border was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,
Joshua
HistoryThen my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?
Deuteronomy
LawSeeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
2 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesAnd it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes.
Mark
GospelsWhereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
Job
WisdomAnd the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
1 Samuel
HistoryLove not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahIn transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThe nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.
Leviticus
LawAs for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielCanst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Job
WisdomThe son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.