The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
Judges
HistoryWherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
Genesis
LawNevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBut as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.
Obadiah
Minor ProphetsAnd when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers,
Matthew
GospelsThey pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
Job
WisdomNow therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
Genesis
LawWhile Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee.
Acts
History / LukeThe Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewNow the men did diligently observe whether any thing would come from him, and did hastily catch it: and they said, Thy brother Ben-hadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Ben-hadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation against the two brethren.
Matthew
GospelsIs it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the bay went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you hence, walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahSo they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThis is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house:
Leviticus
LawTo him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.
Psalms
PoetryAnd again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
John
GospelsNeither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.