Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes?
John
GospelsNot rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAs coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonTherefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBeside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesOr, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
Job
Wisdom / JobNow when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.
Luke
GospelsBut the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
Leviticus
LawAnd in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.
Exodus
Law / MosesCast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
Ezekiel
Major Prophets(Who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered unto him;) and many other women which came up with him unto Jerusalem.
Mark
GospelsBut he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.
Acts
HistoryEvery way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath.
2 Chronicles
HistoryBut ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
Psalms
PoetryZedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur? it had been good for me to have been there still: now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be any iniquity in me, let him kill me.
2 Samuel
HistoryFor thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWhich were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsReproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThere will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersO LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelAs the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.