When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
Deuteronomy
LawThus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
Exodus
Law / MosesWho hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
Job
WisdomAnd thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.
Exodus
Law / MosesHe teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
Job
WisdomDoth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
Job
Wisdom / JobRise up, let us go; lo, he that betrayeth me is at hand.
Mark
GospelsUnto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
Psalms
PoetryFor all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is our's, and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.
Genesis
LawAnd Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.
Mark
GospelsThis is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation: and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
Numbers
LawAnd he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnI went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
Job
Wisdom / JobBut, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
2 Peter
General EpistlesAnd the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.
Genesis
LawThus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
Acts
History / LukeThat led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.
Joshua
HistoryAll that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?