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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The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs
WisdomTo bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on.
Esther
History / MordecaiFor he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesDavid was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
2 Samuel
HistoryIt was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Hebrews
General EpistlesNow therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.
Ezra
HistoryFor that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonO my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.
Micah
Minor ProphetsYet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielDeliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.
Job
Wisdom / JobHate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
Amos
Minor ProphetsWho also honoured us with many honours; and when we departed, they laded us with such things as were necessary.
Acts
HistoryO thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBackbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulPleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Proverbs
WisdomI drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaBut Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.
Acts
HistoryA wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
Proverbs
WisdomWhat shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsNow if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulCommand the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and ye shall give also unto the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.