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Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.
And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes.
As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.
When times are good, be happy, but when time are bad consider; God has made the one as well as the other.
Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremble...for the Lord, your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or forsake you.
The Lord is my light and my salvation - so why should I be afraid.
Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
It is not good that the man should be alone.
For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Am I my brother's keeper?
My punishment is greater than I can bear
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.
His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.
Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
He kept him as the apple of his eye.
The Philistines be upon thee, Samson.
For whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.
A man after his own heart.
Tell it not in Gath; publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon
Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided.
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle!
Very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man.
A proverb and a by-word among all people,
How long halt ye between two opinions?
Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand.
A still, small voice.
Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
There is death in the pot.
The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest.
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Miserable comforters are ye all.
I know that my Redeemer liveth.
The price of wisdom is above-rubies.
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
That mine adversary had written a book.
Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places.
Yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures he leadeth me beside the still waters.
Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
Spreading himself like a green bay tree.
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright.
While I was musing the fire burned.
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Oh, that I had wings like a dove!
His enemies shall lick the dust.
Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
We spend our years as a tale that is told.
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
He giveth his beloved sleep.
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
We hanged our harps on the willows.
For I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
In the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Hope deferred maksth the heart sick.
Fools make a mock at sin.
The heart knoweth his own bitterness.
Righteousness exalteth a nation.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatredtherewith.
Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
The hoary head is a crown of glory.
A wounded spirit who can bear?
Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it.
For riches certainly make themselves wings.
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.
For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.
There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
The wicked flee when no man pursueth.
There is no new thing under the sun.
All is vanity and vexation of spirit.
The sleep of a laboring man is sweet.
It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting.
Be not righteous overmuch
For a living dog is better than a dead lion,
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.
And the grasshopper shall be a burden.
Man goeth to his long home.
Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.
Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid.
Precept upon precept; line upon line: here a little, and there a little.
Set thine house in order.
All flesh is grass.
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance.
A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench.
He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter.
A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation.
To give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.
We all do fade as a leaf.
Amend your ways and your doings.
Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there?
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
And they shall beat their swords into plough-shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks.
But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree.
Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
He will laugh thee to scorn.
Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Man shall not live by bread alone.
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted?
Ye are the light of the world. A city set upon a hill cannot be hid.
But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.
Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Neither cast ye your pearls before swine.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head.
The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few.
Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
The tree is known by his fruit.
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and in his own house.
Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid.
And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
Get thee behind me, Satan.
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
It is good for us to be here.
What therefore God hath joined together let not man put asunder.
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?
For many are called, but few are chosen.
Ye blind guides! which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
For ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones.
For wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
My name is Legion.
Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
And now also the ax is laid unto the root of the trees.
Physician, heal thyself.
Go, and do thou likewise.
But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
He that is not with me is against me.
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning.
For the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea.
Remember Lot's wife.
Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee.
Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world!
Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?
Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
The wind bloweth where it listeth.
He was a burning and a shining light.
Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
Judge not according to the appearance.
For the poor always ye have with you.
Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
Let not your heart be troubled.
In my Father's house are many mansions.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
It is more blessed to give than to receive.
For there is no respect of persons with God.
For the wages of sin is death.
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God.
Be not wise in your own conceits.
Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
The powers that be are ordained of God,
Render therefore to all their dues.
Love is the fulfilling of the law.
Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
Every man's work shall be made manifest.
Absent in body, but present in spirit.
Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
For the fashion of this world passeth away,
I am made all things to all men.
Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
As sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
When I was a child I spake as a child.
For now we see through a glass, darkly.
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
The first man is of the earth, earthy.
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
We walk by faith, not by sight.
Behold, now is the accepted time,
By evil report and good report.
For every man shall bear his own burden,
Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath.
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Touch not; taste not; handle not.
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love.
Not greedy of filthy lucre.
The laborer is worthy of his reward.
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.
Unto the pure all things are pure.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped' for, the evidence of things not seen.
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life.
Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour.
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night.
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.
Be thou faithful unto death.
He shall rule them with a rod of iron.
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
This is the day that the Lord hath made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Ask, and it shall be given you; Seek, and ye shall find; Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding.
You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that - and shudder.
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.