And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryJehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are ye? And they answered, We are the brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahWherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.
2 Chronicles
HistoryI call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when the day began to wear away, then came the twelve, and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the towns and country round about, and lodge, and get victuals: for we are here in a desert place.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThey, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
Genesis
LawOur necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsHe that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.
Proverbs
WisdomBe thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.
Deuteronomy
LawYea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled.
Judges
HistoryDavid said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the LORD be with thee.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFor Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.
2 Kings
HistoryViolence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahIn the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.
1 Kings
HistoryHis flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
Job
Wisdom / JobThou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
Psalms
PoetryThe children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and four.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsOnly acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHaving damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.