Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:
Numbers
LawHow long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?
Psalms
PoetryBut he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewTrust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
Psalms
PoetryWhich he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBy his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsAnd blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
Genesis
Law / MosesIf thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:
Genesis
LawAlso he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
Genesis
Law / MosesStand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahHear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the tent, and all his furniture, his taches, his boards, his bars, and his pillars, and his sockets,
Exodus
LawFor I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsOught not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?