It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he might see the utmost part of the people.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahI am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
John
GospelsAnd if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do.
Numbers
LawThen said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.
1 Kings
HistoryThou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
Judges
HistoryAnd for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
Numbers
LawTherefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey.
Acts
History / LukeAnd he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahFrom thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Numbers
Law / MosesFor, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:
Genesis
LawTherefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in a skin, or in any work that is made of skin; the plague is a fretting leprosy; it is unclean.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThe son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
Ezra
HistoryDavid therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son? And the common people heard him gladly.
Mark
GospelsThe children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam,
Ezra
HistoryAnd Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver them before me, shall I be your head?
Judges
History / SamuelThen David put garrisons in Syria-damascus; and the Syrians became David's servants, and brought gifts. Thus the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.