As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
Genesis
Law / MosesUpon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsMake no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
Proverbs
WisdomWhen the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;
Deuteronomy
LawBut thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBehold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:
Genesis
LawAnd they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
Exodus
Law / MosesWherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD?
2 Samuel
HistoryFor we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
Esther
History / MordecaiFor as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHe bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
Job
WisdomThus 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 / JeremiahAnd Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.
Exodus
Law / MosesHearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God:
Exodus
LawAnd thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
Genesis
Law / MosesBe not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsMoreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.
2 Kings
HistoryEven after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraIf therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?