What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis
LawSo shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them.
Luke
Gospels / LukeI am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersYe shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;
Numbers
Law / MosesEven in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThey know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhen they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?
Job
WisdomAnd he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
Mark
GospelsAnd Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,
Acts
HistoryDoth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?
Job
WisdomAnd there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them.
Numbers
Law / MosesIf a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
Deuteronomy
LawBut that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the LORD.
Joshua
History / JoshuaTheir feet are swift to shed blood:
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
Job
WisdomFor when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
Hebrews
General EpistlesRemove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.