Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth thee good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only the LORD establish his word. So the woman abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned him.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind.
Numbers
LawI applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAccording to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.
Haggai
Minor Prophets / HaggaiThey reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.
Psalms
PoetryTherefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.
Exodus
LawEvery wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
Proverbs
WisdomBlessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
Matthew
GospelsTherefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSend therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field; for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them.
Mark
GospelsHe that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.
Proverbs
WisdomThe ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsSo David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.
Numbers
LawBut in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the LORD withal.
Leviticus
LawAnd all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen.
Exodus
Law / MosesNow the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?
2 Chronicles
HistoryIn the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
Esther
History / MordecaiJoshua therefore came unto them suddenly, and went up from Gilgal all night.
Joshua
HistoryFor he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him.