Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
Psalms
PoetryAnd when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?
Mark
Gospels / MarkFor the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahOh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
Job
WisdomHe shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
Job
WisdomThou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.
Mark
GospelsFor there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomBut and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut now are they many members, yet but one body.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesBut the multitude of the city was divided: and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsI had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
Psalms
PoetryNethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,
1 Chronicles
HistoryOrder my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThis evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire.
Judges
History / SamuelShallum, Amariah, and Joseph.
Ezra
History / EzraBrethren, pray for us.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since:
Genesis
Law / MosesFor we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Titus
Pauline EpistlesFor how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
Genesis
LawThrough thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.