I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
Genesis
LawBut ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
Job
WisdomThat thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are given as a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Numbers
Law / MosesYe have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.
Matthew
GospelsAlso against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.
Numbers
LawThen the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation,
Acts
History / LukeFor this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
Genesis
LawMy soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersLest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,
Luke
GospelsAnd say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion.
Judges
History / SamuelUntil the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar Ed: for it shall be a witness between us that the LORD is God.
Joshua
History / JoshuaDead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesO LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.