Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.
1 Kings
HistoryThe kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus
LawBut where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
Job
Wisdom / JobSo he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley:
Deuteronomy
LawThus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelI also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
Leviticus
LawAnd it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThen I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBlow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Beth-aven, after thee, O Benjamin.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaConfirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
Acts
HistoryAnd he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished the work.
Exodus
Law / MosesThey search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBut it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd they gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities, which are called by their names.
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
2 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
Genesis
Law / MosesSay thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.