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 king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may shew the kindness of God unto him? And Ziba said unto the king, Jonathan hath yet a son, which is lame on his feet.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou have consumed them.
1 Kings
HistoryThen he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?
2 Chronicles
HistoryTheir bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
Job
WisdomNow therefore, Tatnai, governor beyond the river, Shethar-boznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, which are beyond the river, be ye far from thence:
Ezra
HistoryThou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
Psalms
PoetryAnd for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,
Leviticus
Law / MosesHe is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahShake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThey are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
Job
WisdomAnd Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.
Numbers
LawThen Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahTake thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:
Deuteronomy
LawThen he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Joshua said, Roll great stones upon the mouth of the cave, and set men by it for to keep them:
Joshua
HistoryThey return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaThou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.
Joshua
History / JoshuaWherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
Matthew
GospelsRestore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahOut of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.