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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Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
Daniel
Major ProphetsWherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBecause thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
Revelation
ApocalypticOur inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd he said unto them, The LORD is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found ought in my hand. And they answered, He is witness.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he said unto them, Where is your faith? And they being afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for he commandeth even the winds and water, and they obey him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeSon of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen was Daniel brought in before the king. And the king spake and said unto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, which art of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Jewry?
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielGive ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen;
Acts
HistoryAnd Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart, took a child, and set him by him,
Luke
Gospels / LukeThe preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.
Proverbs
WisdomIn whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWho shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesSay unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
Proverbs
WisdomAnd I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, The place of a skull.
Mark
GospelsO thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahBut I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd he brought the other ram, the ram of consecration: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.