When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.
Luke
GospelsWherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesI have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnFor the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
John
GospelsStand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesNow therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBehold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
2 Kings
HistoryLet us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a mess of meat from the king.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?
Luke
GospelsWhile he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
Job
Wisdom(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
Job
WisdomThose that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.
Numbers
LawFor I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
2 Kings
HistoryBut when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd enquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?
Mark
Gospels / MarkMoreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
Exodus
LawWhat wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man.