The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
Luke
GospelsAnd they journeyed from Rissah, and pitched in Kehelathah.
Numbers
LawO spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
Psalms
PoetryNow we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
John
Gospels / JohnWhen he had said these words unto them, he abode still in Galilee.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd he brought the bullock for the sin offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock for the sin offering.
Leviticus
LawAnd in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
Genesis
Law / MosesWhich said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
Job
Wisdom / JobIt is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;
Psalms
PoetryNeither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiYea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd Elon, and Thimnathah, and Ekron,
Joshua
HistoryAnd I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.
1 Kings
HistoryThus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.
2 Samuel
HistoryGod shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.