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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Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah.
1 Kings
HistoryDid not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
Genesis
Law / MosesFear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsJoseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.
Mark
GospelsI am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesNevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man's house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down.
2 Samuel
HistoryKnow ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.
Hebrews
General EpistlesFor they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
Psalms
PoetryAnd a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
John
GospelsI spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut shew kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those that eat at thy table: for so they came to me when I fled because of Absalom thy brother.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Samuel said unto the cook, Bring the portion which I gave thee, of which I said unto thee, Set it by thee.
1 Samuel
HistoryWoe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
Matthew
GospelsAnd moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomFor the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Proverbs
WisdomEven every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
Job
WisdomAnd I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThat the LORD thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahTo give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.