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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Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
Leviticus
LawHer adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd on the second day ye shall offer twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:
Numbers
Law / MosesSon of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHe sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
Matthew
GospelsPass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThese are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains at the ends of wreathen work of pure gold.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.
Genesis
Law / MosesTheir fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
Psalms
PoetryHe that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
John
GospelsSo that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAs the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.
Psalms
PoetryYet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job
WisdomThey mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
Psalms
PoetryLORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsYe daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBecause thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.