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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Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and said unto them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.
Genesis
Law / MosesLet Israel now say, that his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was noised throughout all the country.
Joshua
HistoryYe also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAnd when they had taken security of Jason, and of the other, they let them go.
Acts
HistoryAnd the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch.
Acts
History / LukeAnd he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king's house;
2 Kings
History / JeremiahHe is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
Job
Wisdom / JobI have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAll that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were an hundred thousand and eight thousand and an hundred, throughout their armies. And they shall go forward in the third rank.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king's son.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahI will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
Genesis
LawWho shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulWho is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.
Psalms
PoetryAnd there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more.
Exodus
LawThat our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIn that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it, by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make it; and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it withal.
Exodus
Law / MosesJesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.