A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
Deuteronomy
LawThey that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
1 Samuel
HistoryFor I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the LORD:
Exodus
Law / MosesFor thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.
Psalms
PoetryThe LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsFor if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
Esther
History / MordecaiThe letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly read before me.
Ezra
HistoryAnd David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?
1 Samuel
HistoryWhose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesSome remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar over against the land of Canaan, in the borders of Jordan, at the passage of the children of Israel.
Joshua
HistoryThou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought.
Acts
HistoryFor the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.
Psalms
PoetryThen your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:
Numbers
LawCanst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
Job
WisdomDeliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
Psalms
PoetryThat hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBeside the chief of Solomon's officers which were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren.