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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As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Acts
HistoryAnd when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ish-tob twelve thousand men.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThe impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
John
Gospels / JohnHe fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahAnd the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD: and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that he hath done in trespassing therein.
Leviticus
Law / MosesExamine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?
Ecclesiastes
WisdomTurn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?
1 Kings
HistoryOr if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty.
Leviticus
Law / MosesLike as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Beth-el with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephrain with the towns thereof.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBehold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahNow it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBut the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsElkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son,
1 Chronicles
HistoryThey soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
Psalms
PoetryIs not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelAnd every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Genesis
LawFor I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.