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The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of
the corner.
Topic: Architecture
Source: Psalms (ch. CXVIII, v. 22)
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How agree the kettle and the earthen pot together?
Topic: Argument
Source: Ecclesiasticus (ch. XIII, v. 2)
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For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of
death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things
whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I
appeal unto Caesar.
Topic: Authority
Source: Acts (ch. XXV, v. 11)
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The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the
point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart,
and upon the horns of your altars;
Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by
the green trees upon the high hills.
Topic: Authorship
Source: Jeremiah (ch. XVII, v. 1-2)
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Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained
strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the
enemy and the avenger.
Topic: Babyhood
Source: Psalms (ch. VIII, v. 2)
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Rock-bye-baby on the tree top,
When the wind blows the cradle will rock.
When the bough bends the cradle will fall,
Down comes the baby, cradle and all.
Topic: Babyhood
Source: Psalms (ch. VIII, v. 2)
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Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich
in thy bedchamber; for a bird of the air shall carry the voice,
and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Topic: Birds
Source: Ecclesiastes (ch. X, v. 20)
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Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
Topic: Blessings
Source: Deuteronomy (ch. XXVIII, v. 5)
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Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the
blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Topic: Blindness
Source: Matthew (ch. XV, v. 14)
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And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many
books there is no end: and much study is a weariness of the
flesh.
Topic: Books
Source: Ecclesiastes (ch. XII, v. 12)
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Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book,
that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.
Topic: Books
Source: Isaiah (ch. XXX, v. 8)
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Oh that my words were now written! on that they were printed in
a book!
Topic: Books
Source: Job (ch. XIX, v. 23)
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Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the
Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a
book.
Topic: Books
Source: Job (ch. XXXI, v. 35)
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
Topic: Books
Source: Job (ch. XXXI, v. 35)
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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.
Topic: Books and Reading
Source: None
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The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the
lender.
Topic: Borrowing
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXII, v. 7)
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Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city,
whose merchants were princes, whose traffickers are the
honourable of the earth?
Topic: Business
Source: Isaiah (ch. XXIII, v. 8)
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Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
Topic: Change
Source: Jeremiah (ch. XIII, v. 23)
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But now, after that ye have known God, or rather or known of God,
how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye
desire again to be in bondage?
Topic: Character
Source: Galatians (ch. IV, v. 9)
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And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to
myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us
not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of
you be puffed up for one against another.
Topic: Character
Source: I Corinthians (ch. IV, v. 6)
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Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have
not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Topic: Charity
Source: I Corinthians (ch. XIII, v. 1)
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And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the
greatest of these is charity.
Topic: Charity
Source: I Corinthians (ch. XIII, v. 13)
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And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all
mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so
that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am
nothing.
Topic: Charity
Source: I Corinthians (ch. XIII, v. 2)
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And thou I bestow all my good to feed the poor, and though I give
my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me
nothing.
Topic: Charity
Source: I Corinthians (ch. XIII, v. 3)
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Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity
vaulteth not itself, is not puffed up.
Topic: Charity
Source: I Corinthians (ch. XIII, v. 4)
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And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves. for
charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
Topic: Charity
Source: I Peter (ch. IV, v. 8)
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But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first
to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is
good and acceptable before God.
Topic: Charity
Source: I Timothy (ch. V, v. 4)
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And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three, but the greatest of these is charity. [Corinthians]
Topic: Charity
Source: None
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And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three, but the greatest of these is charity. [Corinthians].
Topic: Charity
Source: None
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For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn
shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.
Topic: Cheerfulness
Source: Zechariah (ch. IX, v. 17)
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When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child,
I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away
childish things.
Topic: Childhood
Source: I Corinthians (ch. XIII, v. 11)
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In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and
great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be
comforted, because they are not.
Topic: Childhood
Source: Matthew (ch. II, v. 18)
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A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the
heaviness of his mother.
Topic: Childhood
Source: Proverbs (ch. X, v. 1)
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Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he
will not depart from it.
Topic: Childhood
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXII, v. 6)
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Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
Topic: Childhood
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXXI, v. 29)
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Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the
womb is his reward.
As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the
youth.
Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall
not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the
gate.
Topic: Childhood
Source: Psalms (ch. CXXVII, v. 3-5)
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Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house:
thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
Topic: Childhood
Source: Psalms (ch. CXXVIII, v. 3)
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Behold, I was shapened in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. [Psalms 51:5].
Topic: Children / Youth
Source: None
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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15].
Topic: Children / Youth
Source: None
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But one thing is needful: and Math hath chosen that good part,
which shall not be taken away from her.
Topic: Choice
Source: Luke (ch. X, v. 42)
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For many are called, but few are chosen.
Topic: Choice
Source: Matthew (ch. XXII, v. 14)
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And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of
the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his
head.
Topic: Christ
Source: Matthew (ch. VIII, v. 20)
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Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a
Christian.
Topic: Christianity
Source: Acts (ch. XXVI, v. 28)
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And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew,
and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded
upon a rock.
Topic: Churches
Source: Matthew (ch. VII, v. 25)
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Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill
cannot be hid.
Topic: Cities
Source: Matthew (ch. V, v. 14)
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Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount
Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
Topic: Cities
Source: Psalms (ch. XLVIII, v. 2)
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He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
Topic: Cleanliness
Source: Ecclesiasticus (ch. XIII, v. 1)
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Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how
that al our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through
the sea.
Topic: Clouds
Source: I Corinthians (ch. X, v. 1)
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And it can to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold,
there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand.
And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get
thee down, that the rain stop thee not.
Topic: Clouds
Source: I Kings (ch. XVIII, v. 44)
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Who covereth thyself with light as a garment: who stretchest out
the heavens like a curtain:
Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh
the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:
Who maketh his angels spirits: his ministers a flaming fire:
Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be
removed for ever.
Topic: Clouds
Source: Psalms (ch. CIV, v. 2-5)
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