1-Kings 8:32

Then let your ear be open in heaven, and be the judge of your servants, giving your decision against the wrongdoer, so that punishment for his sins may come on his head; and, by your decision, keeping from evil him who has done no wrong.

1-Kings 8:43

Give ear in heaven your living-place, and give him his desire, whatever it may be; so that all the peoples of the earth may have knowledge of your name, worshipping you as do your people Israel, and that they may see that this house which I have put up is truly named by your name.

1-Kings 8:61

Then let your hearts be without sin before the Lord our God, walking in his laws and keeping his orders as at this day.

1-Kings 9:4

As for you, if you will go on your way before me, as David your father did, uprightly and with a true heart, doing what I have given you orders to do, keeping my laws and my decisions;

1-Kings 11:33

Because they are turned away from me to the worship of Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and Chemosh, the god of Moab, and Milcom, the god of the Ammonites; they have not been walking in my ways or doing what is right in my eyes or keeping my laws and my decisions as his father David did.

1-Kings 11:38

And if you give attention to the orders I give you, walking in my ways and doing what is right in my eyes and keeping my laws and my orders as David my servant did; then I will be with you, building up for you a safe house, as I did for David, and I will give Israel to you.

1-Kings 12:6

Then King Rehoboam took the opinion of the old men who had been with Solomon his father when he was living, and said, In your opinion, what answer am I to give to this people?



1-Kings 12:8

But he gave no attention to the opinion of the old men, and went to the young men of his generation who were waiting before him:

1-Kings 12:9

And said to them, What is your opinion? What answer are we to give to this people who have said to me, Make less the weight of the yoke which your father put on us?

1-Kings 13:29

Then the prophet took up the body of the man of God and put it on the ass and took it back; and he came to the town to put the body to rest with weeping.

1-Kings 13:30

And he put the body in the resting-place made ready for himself, weeping and sorrowing over it, saying, O my brother!

1-Kings 14:13

And all Israel will put his body to rest, weeping over him, because he only of the family of Jeroboam will be put into his resting-place in the earth; for of all the family of Jeroboam, in him only has the Lord, the God of Israel, seen some good.

1-Kings 14:18

And all Israel put his body to rest, weeping over him, as the Lord had said by his servant Ahijah the prophet.

1-Kings 18:21

And Elijah came near to all the people and said, How long will you go on balancing between two opinions? if the Lord is God, then give worship to him; but if Baal, give worship to him. And the people said not a word in answer.



1-Kings 18:26

So they took the ox which was given them, and made it ready, crying out to Baal from morning till the middle of the day, and saying, O Baal, give ear to us. But there was no voice and no answer. And they were jumping up and down before the altar they had made.

1-Kings 18:27

And in the middle of the day, Elijah made sport of them, saying, Give louder cries, for he is a god; he may be deep in thought, or he may have gone away for some purpose, or he may be on a journey, or by chance he is sleeping and has to be made awake.

1-Kings 20:16

And in the middle of the day they went out. But Ben-hadad was drinking in the tents with the thirty-two kings who were helping him.

1-Kings 21:27

Hearing these words, Ahab, in great grief, put haircloth on his flesh and went without food, sleeping in haircloth, and going about quietly.

2-Kings 3:19

And you are to put every walled town to destruction, cutting down every good tree, and stopping up every water-spring, and making all the good land rough with stones.

2-Kings 3:25

Pulling down the towns, covering every good field with stones, stopping up all the water-springs, and cutting down all the good trees; they went on driving Moab before them till only in Kir-hareseth were there any Moabites; and the fighting-men went round the town raining stones on it.

2-Kings 6:11

And at this, the mind of the king of Aram was greatly troubled, and he sent for his servants and said to them, Will you not make clear to me which of us is helping the king of Israel?



2-Kings 6:25

And they became very short of food in Samaria; for they kept it shut in till the price of an ass's head was eighty shekels of silver, and a small measure of doves' droppings was five shekels of silver.

2-Kings 8:11

And he kept his eyes fixed on him till he was shamed, and the man of God was overcome with weeping.

2-Kings 8:12

And Hazael said, Why is my lord weeping? Then he said in answer, Because I see the evil which you will do to the children of Israel: burning down their strong towns, putting their young men to death with the sword, smashing their little ones against the stones, and cutting open the women who are with child.

2-Kings 9:14

So Jehu, the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, made designs against Joram. (Now Joram and all the army of Israel were keeping watch on Ramoth-gilead because of Hazael, king of Aram:

2-Kings 10:9

And in the morning he went out and, stopping, said to all the people there, You are upright men: it is true that I made designs against my master, and put him to death; but who is responsible for the death of all these?

2-Kings 13:14

Now elisha became ill with the disease which was the cause of his death: and Joash, king of Israel, came down to him, and weeping over him said, My father, my father, the war-carriages of Israel and its horsemen!

2-Kings 15:20

And Menahem got the money from Israel, from all the men of wealth, fifty silver shekels from every man, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria went back without stopping in the land.



2-Kings 17:16

And turning their backs on all the orders which the Lord had given them, they made for themselves images of metal, and the image of Asherah, worshipping all the stars of heaven and becoming servants to Baal.

2-Kings 17:32

So they went on worshipping the Lord, and made for themselves, from among all the people, priests for the high places, to make offerings for them in the houses of the high places.

2-Kings 17:34

So to this day they go on in their old ways, not worshipping the Lord or keeping his orders or his ways or the law and the rule which the Lord gave to the children of Jacob, to whom he gave the name Israel;

2-Kings 17:41

So these nations, worshipping the Lord, still were servants to the images they had made; their children and their children's children did the same; as their fathers did, so do they, to this day.

2-Kings 19:37

And it came about, when he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to death with the sword; and they went in flight into the land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon his son became king in his place.

2-Kings 20:3

O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.

2-Kings 20:5

Go back and say to Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, The Lord, the God of David your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping; see, I will make you well: on the third day you will go up to the house of the Lord.



2-Kings 22:19

Because your heart was soft, and you made yourself low before me, when you had word of what I said against this place and its people, that they would become a waste and a curse, and you gave signs of grief, weeping before me: truly, I have given ear to you, says the Lord.

1-Chronicles 1:52

The chief of Oholibamah, the chief of Elah, the chief of Pinon,

1-Chronicles 5:25

And they did evil against the God of their fathers, worshipping the gods of the people of the land, whom God had put to destruction before them.

1-Chronicles 7:22

And for a long time Ephraim their father went on weeping for them, and his brothers came to give him comfort.

1-Chronicles 9:27

Their sleeping-rooms were round the house of God, for they had the care of it, and were responsible for opening it morning by morning.

1-Chronicles 13:9

And when they came to the grain-floor of Chidon, Uzza put out his hand to keep the ark in its place, for the oxen were slipping.

1-Chronicles 17:7

So now, say to my servant David, The Lord of armies says, I took you from the fields, from keeping sheep, so that you might be a ruler over my people Israel;

1-Chronicles 18:4

And David took from him a thousand war-carriages and seven thousand horsemen and twenty thousand footmen: and he had the leg-muscles of all the horses cut, keeping only enough of them for a hundred war-carriages.

1-Chronicles 29:20

And David said to all the people, Now give praise to the Lord your God. And all the people gave praise to the Lord, the God of their fathers, with bent heads worshipping the Lord and the king.

2-Chronicles 5:11

Now when the priests had come out of the holy place, (for all the priests who were present had made themselves holy, not keeping to their divisions;

2-Chronicles 6:14

And he said, O Lord, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on earth; keeping faith and mercy unchanging for your servants, while they go in your ways with all their hearts;

2-Chronicles 6:23

Then let your ear be open in heaven, and be the judge of your servants, giving punishment to the wrongdoer, so that his sin may come on his head; and, by your decision, keeping from evil him who has done no wrong.

2-Chronicles 6:33

Then give ear from heaven your living-place, and give him his desire, whatever it may be; so that all the peoples of the earth may have knowledge of your name, worshipping you as do your people Israel, and may see that this house which I have made is truly named by your name.

2-Chronicles 7:3

And all the children of Israel were looking on when the fire came down, and the glory of the Lord was on the house; and they went down on their knees, with their faces to the earth, worshipping and praising the Lord, and saying, He is good; for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

2-Chronicles 7:17

And as for you, if you will go on your way before me as David your father did, doing whatever I have given you orders to do and keeping my laws and my decisions:

2-Chronicles 10:6

Then King Rehoboam took the opinion of the old men who had been with Solomon his father when he was living, and said, In your opinion, what answer am I to give to this people?

2-Chronicles 10:8

But he gave no attention to the opinion of the old men, but went to the young men of his generation who were waiting before him.

2-Chronicles 10:9

And he said to them, What is your opinion? What answer are we to give to this people who have said to me, Make less the weight of the yoke which your father put on us?

2-Chronicles 17:4

But turning to the God of his father and keeping his laws, and not doing as Israel did.

2-Chronicles 25:14

Now when Amaziah came back from the destruction of the Edomites, he took the gods of the children of Seir and made them his gods, worshipping them and burning offerings before them.

2-Chronicles 25:27

Now from the time when Amaziah gave up worshipping the Lord, they made secret designs against him in Jerusalem; and he went in flight to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him and put him to death there.

2-Chronicles 26:13

And under their orders was a trained army of three hundred and seven thousand, five hundred, of great strength in war, helping the king against any who came against him.

2-Chronicles 31:4

In addition, he gave orders to the people of Jerusalem to give to the priests and Levites that part which was theirs by right, so that they might be strong in keeping the law of the Lord.

2-Chronicles 31:12

And in them they put all the offerings and the tenths and the holy things, keeping nothing back, and over them was Conaniah the Levite, with Shimei his brother second to him.

2-Chronicles 32:3

He took up with his rulers and men of war the question of stopping up the water-springs outside the town; and they gave him their support.

2-Chronicles 32:8

With him is an arm of flesh; but we have the Lord our God, helping us and fighting for us. And the people put their faith in what Hezekiah, king of Judah, said.

2-Chronicles 34:4

He had the altars of the Baals broken down, while he himself was present; and the sun-images which were placed on high over them he had cut down; and the pillars of wood and the metal images he had broken up and crushed to dust, dropping the dust over the resting-places of the dead who had made offerings to them.

2-Chronicles 34:27

And your heart was soft, and you made yourself low before God, on hearing his words about this place and its people, and with weeping and signs of grief have made yourself low before me, I have given ear to you, says the Lord God.

2-Chronicles 35:16

So everything needed for the worship of the Lord was made ready that same day, for the keeping of the Passover and the offering of burned offerings on the altar of the Lord, as King Josiah had given orders.

2-Chronicles 35:22

However, Josiah would not go back; but keeping to his purpose of fighting against him, and giving no attention to the words of Neco, which came from God, he went forward to the fight in the valley of Megiddo.

2-Chronicles 35:24

So his servants took him out of the line of war-carriages, and put him in his second carriage and took him to Jerusalem, where he came to his end, and they put his body in the resting-place of his fathers. And in all Judah and Jerusalem there was great weeping for Josiah.

2-Chronicles 35:26

Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and the good he did, in keeping with what is recorded in the law of the Lord,

Ezra 3:12

But a number of the priests and Levites and the heads of families, old men who had seen the first house, when the base of this house was put down before their eyes, were overcome with weeping; and a number were crying out with joy:

Ezra 3:13

So that in the ears of the people the cry of joy was mixed with the sound of weeping; for the cries of the people were loud and came to the ears of those who were a long way off.

Ezra 5:2

Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, got up and made a start at building the house of God at Jerusalem: and the prophets of God were with them, helping them.

Ezra 6:14

And the responsible men of the Jews went on with their building, and did well, helped by the teaching of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah, the son of Iddo. They went on building till it was complete, in keeping with the word of the God of Israel, and the orders given by Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes, king of Persia.

Ezra 8:20

And of the Nethinim, to whom David and the captains had given the work of helping the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim, all of them specially named.

Ezra 10:1

Now while Ezra was making his prayer and his statement of wrongdoing, weeping and falling down before the house of God, a very great number of men and women and children out of Israel came together round him: for the people were weeping bitterly.

Ezra 10:3

Let us now make an agreement with our God to put away all the wives and all their children, if it seems right to my lord and to those who go in fear of the words of our God; and let it be done in keeping with the law.

Nehemiah 1:4

Then, after hearing these words, for some days I gave myself up to weeping and sorrow, seated on the earth; and taking no food I made prayer to the God of heaven,

Nehemiah 1:5

And said, O Lord, the God of heaven, the great God, greatly to be feared, keeping faith and mercy with those who have love for him and are true to his laws:

Nehemiah 1:11

O Lord, let your ear take note of the prayer of your servant, and of the prayers of your servants, who take delight in worshipping your name: give help, O Lord, to your servant this day, and let him have mercy in the eyes of this man. (Now I was the king's wine-servant.)

Nehemiah 2:18

Then I gave them an account of how the hand of my God was on me, helping me; and of the king's words which he had said to me. And they said, Let us get to work on the building. So they made their hands strong for the good work.

Nehemiah 5:16

And I kept on with the work of this wall, and we got no land for ourselves: and all my servants were helping with the work.

Nehemiah 6:6

And in it these words were recorded: It is said among the nations, and Geshem says so, that you and the Jews are hoping to make yourselves free from the king's authority; and that this is why you are building the wall: and they say that it is your purpose to be their king;

Nehemiah 6:9

For they were hoping to put fear in us, saying, Their hands will become feeble and give up the work so that it may not get done. But now, O God, make my hands strong.

Nehemiah 8:9

And Nehemiah, who was the Tirshatha, and Ezra, the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were the teachers of the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to the Lord your God; let there be no sorrow or weeping; for all the people were weeping on hearing the words of the law.

Nehemiah 9:3

And for a fourth part of the day, upright in their places, they were reading from the book of the law of their God; and for a fourth part of the day they were requesting forgiveness and worshipping the Lord their God.

Nehemiah 12:25

Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were door-keepers keeping the watch at the store-houses of the doors.

Nehemiah 13:17

Then I made protests to the chiefs of Judah, and said to them, What is this evil which you are doing, not keeping the Sabbath day holy?

Nehemiah 13:18

Did not your fathers do the same, and did not our God send all this evil on us and on this town? but you are causing more wrath to come on Israel by not keeping the Sabbath holy.

Esther 1:8

And the drinking was in keeping with the law; no one was forced: for the king had given orders to all the chief servants of his house to do as was pleasing to every man.

Esther 2:14

In the evening she went, and on the day after she came back to the second house of the women, into the keeping of Shaashgaz, one of the king's unsexed servants who had the care of the king's wives: only if the king had delight in her and sent for her by name did she go in to him again.

Esther 4:3

And in every part of the kingdom, wherever the king's word and his order came, there was great sorrow among the Jews, and weeping and crying and going without food; and numbers of them were stretched on the earth covered with dust and haircloth.

Esther 8:3

Then Esther again came before the king, falling down at his feet, and made request to him with weeping, that he would put a stop to the evil purposes of Haman the Agagite and the designs which he had made against the Jews.

Esther 8:8

So now send a letter about the Jews, writing whatever seems good to you, in the king's name, and stamping it with the king's ring: for a writing signed in the king's name and stamped with the king's ring may not be changed.

Esther 9:1

Now on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, when the time came for the king's order to be put into effect, on the very day when the haters of the Jews had been hoping to have rule over them; though the opposite had come about, and the Jews had rule over their haters;

Esther 9:22

As days on which the Jews had rest from their haters, and the month which for them was turned from sorrow to joy, and from weeping to a good day: and that they were to keep them as days of feasting and joy, of sending offerings to one another and good things to the poor.

Esther 9:31

Giving the force of law to these days of Purim at their fixed times, as they had been ordered by Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen, and in keeping with the rules they had made for themselves and their seed, in connection with their time of going without food and their cry for help.

Job 1:1

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. He was without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil.

Job 1:8

And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil?

Job 2:3

And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil? and he still keeps his righteousness, though you have been moving me to send destruction on him without cause.

Job 2:9

And his wife said to him, Are you still keeping your righteousness? Say a curse against God, and put an end to yourself.

Job 2:12

And lifting up their eyes when they were still far off, it did not seem that the man they saw was Job because of the change in him. And they gave way to bitter weeping, with signs of grief, and put dust on their heads.

Job 6:29

Let your minds be changed, and do not have an evil opinion of me; yes, be changed, for my righteousness is still in me.

Job 9:26

They go rushing on like reed-boats, like an eagle dropping suddenly on its food.

Job 11:19

Sleeping with no fear of danger; and men will be desiring to have grace in your eyes;

Job 12:5

In the thought of him who is in comfort there is no respect for one who is in trouble; such is the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

Job 15:33

He is like a vine whose grapes do not come to full growth, or an olive-tree dropping its flowers.

Job 16:16

My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;

Job 16:20

My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,

Job 20:10

His children are hoping that the poor will be kind to them, and his hands give back his wealth.

Job 21:10

Their ox is ready at all times to give seed; their cow gives birth, without dropping her young.

Job 27:15

When those of his house who are still living come to their end by disease, they are not put into the earth, and their widows are not weeping for them.

Job 29:21

Men gave ear to me, waiting and keeping quiet for my suggestions.

Job 30:25

Have I not been weeping for the crushed? and was not my soul sad for him who was in need?

Job 30:30

My skin is black and dropping off me; and my bones are burning with the heat of my disease.

Job 30:31

And my music has been turned to sorrow, and the sound of my pipe into the noise of weeping.

Job 33:30

Keeping back his soul from the underworld, so that he may see the light of life.

Job 36:28

Flowing down from the sky, and dropping on the peoples.

Job 39:21

He is stamping with joy in the valley; he makes sport of fear.

Job 41:19

Out of his mouth go burning lights, and flames of fire are jumping up.

Psalms 6:6

The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping; it is watered by the drops flowing from my eyes.

Psalms 6:8

Go from me, all you workers of evil; for the Lord has given ear to the voice of my weeping.

Psalms 10:13

Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it?

Psalms 12:5

Because of the crushing of the poor and the weeping of those in need, now will I come to his help, says the Lord; I will give him the salvation which he is desiring.

Psalms 18:36

You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet are kept from slipping.

Psalms 19:10

More to be desired are they than gold, even than much shining gold; sweeter than the dropping honey.

Psalms 19:11

By them is your servant made conscious of danger, and in keeping them there is great reward.

Psalms 22:1

<To the chief music-maker on Aijeleth-hash-shahar. A Psalm. Of David.> My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying?

Psalms 26:1

<Of David.> O Lord, be my judge, for my behaviour has been upright: I have put my faith in the Lord, I am not in danger of slipping.

Psalms 29:6

He makes them go jumping about like a young ox; lebanon and Sirion like a young mountain ox.

Psalms 30:5

For his wrath is only for a minute; in his grace there is life; weeping may be for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

Psalms 31:10

My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

Psalms 38:6

I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.

Psalms 39:12

Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

Psalms 42:4

Let my soul be overflowing with grief when these things come back to my mind, how I went in company to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with the song of those who were keeping the feast.

Psalms 44:23

Why are you sleeping, O Lord? awake! and come to our help, do not give us up for ever.

Psalms 54:1

<To the chief music-maker; on Neginoth. Maschil. Of David. When the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Is not David keeping himself secret among us?> Let your name be my salvation, O God; let my cause be judged by your strength.

Psalms 59:7

See, hate is dropping from their lips; curses are on their tongues: they say, Who gives attention to it?

Psalms 65:11

The year is crowned with the good you give; life-giving rain is dropping from your footsteps,

Psalms 66:14

Keeping the word which came from my lips, and which my mouth said, when I was in trouble.

Psalms 69:10

My bitter weeping, and my going without food, were turned to my shame.

Psalms 71:14

But I will go on ever hoping, and increasing in all your praise.

Psalms 73:2

But as for me, my feet had almost gone from under me; I was near to slipping;

Psalms 73:18

You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

Psalms 74:11

Why are you keeping back your hand, and covering your right hand in your robe?

Psalms 78:56

But they were bitter against the Most High God, testing him, and not keeping his laws;

Psalms 78:64

Their priests were put to death by the sword, and their widows made no weeping for them.

Psalms 80:5

You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.

Psalms 94:18

If I say, My foot is slipping; your mercy, O Lord, is my support.

Psalms 99:5

Give high honour to the Lord our God, worshipping at his feet; holy is he.

Psalms 99:9

Give high honour to the Lord our God, worshipping with your faces turned to his holy hill; for the Lord our God is holy.

Psalms 102:9

I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:

Psalms 114:4

The mountains were jumping like goats, and the little hills like lambs.

Psalms 114:6

You mountains, why were you jumping like goats, and you little hills like lambs?

Psalms 116:8

You have taken my soul from the power of death, keeping my eyes from weeping, and my feet from falling.

Psalms 119:25

<DALETH> My soul is joined to the dust: O give me life, in keeping with your word.

Psalms 119:28

My soul is wasted with sorrow; give me strength again in keeping with your word

Psalms 119:65

<TETH> You have done good to your servant, O Lord, in keeping with your word.

Psalms 119:107

I am greatly troubled, O Lord, give me life in keeping with your word.

Psalms 119:122

Take your servant's interests into your keeping; let me not be crushed by the men of pride.

Psalms 119:156

Great is the number of your mercies, O Lord; give me life in keeping with your decisions.

Psalms 119:159

See how great is my love for your orders: give me life, O Lord, in keeping with your mercy.

Psalms 119:169

<TAU> Let my cry come before you, O Lord; give me wisdom in keeping with your word.

Psalms 126:5

Those who put in seed with weeping will get in the grain with cries of joy.

Psalms 126:6

Though a man may go out weeping, taking his vessel of seed with him; he will come again in joy, with the corded stems of grain in his arms.

Psalms 127:1

<A song of the going up. Of Solomon.> If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing.

Psalms 137:1

By the rivers of Babylon we were seated, weeping at the memory of Zion,

Proverbs 3:20

By his knowledge the deep was parted, and dew came dropping from the skies.

Proverbs 3:23

Then you will go safely on your way, and your feet will have no cause for slipping.

Proverbs 5:3

For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;

Proverbs 6:9

How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?

Proverbs 6:22

In your walking, it will be your guide; when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you; when you are awake, it will have talk with you.

Proverbs 6:30

Men do not have a low opinion of a thief who takes food when he is in need of it:

Proverbs 8:13

The fear of the Lord is seen in hating evil: pride, a high opinion of oneself, the evil way, and the false tongue, are unpleasing to me.

Proverbs 8:34

Happy is the man who gives ear to me, watching at my doors day by day, keeping his place by the pillars of my house.

Proverbs 11:12

He who has a poor opinion of his neighbour has no sense, but a wise man keeps quiet.

Proverbs 11:14

When there is no helping suggestion the people will have a fall, but with a number of wise guides they will be safe.

Proverbs 12:9

He who is of low position and has a servant, is better than one who has a high opinion of himself and is in need of bread.

Proverbs 15:2

Knowledge is dropping from the tongue of the wise; but from the mouth of the foolish comes a stream of foolish words.

Proverbs 15:3

The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

Proverbs 15:33

The fear of the Lord is the teaching of wisdom; and a low opinion of oneself goes before honour.

Proverbs 18:3

When the evil-doer comes, a low opinion comes with him, and with the loss of honour comes shame.

Proverbs 21:26

All the day the sinner goes after his desire: but the upright man gives freely, keeping nothing back.

Proverbs 24:11

Be the saviour of those who are given up to death, and do not keep back help from those who are slipping to destruction.

Proverbs 27:15

Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman.

Proverbs 28:11

The man of wealth seems to himself to be wise, but the poor man who has sense has a low opinion of him.

Ecclesiastes 3:4

A time for weeping and a time for laughing; a time for sorrow and a time for dancing;

Ecclesiastes 3:7

A time for undoing and a time for stitching; a time for keeping quiet and a time for talk;

Ecclesiastes 4:1

And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.

Ecclesiastes 4:11

So again, if two are sleeping together they are warm, but how may one be warm by himself?

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.

Ecclesiastes 7:4

The hearts of the wise are in the house of weeping; but the hearts of the foolish are in the house of joy.


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Christian Literature

Most of the teaching of Jesus are recorded in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The Complete Sayings of Jesus presents every word spoken by Jesus in one place and provides an index to assist in finding specific ocassions, places and/or events. It is a must read aid for serious Bible study.


He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, saith the Lord. These are the words of Christ; and they direct us to imitate his life and character. The Imitation of Christ is guide to following the example of Jesus Christ. Let it be our most earnest study to dwell upon the life and example of Jesus.


The Apocrypha books are 14 books that were included between the old and new testaments in the original King James Version of the bible and many others. Church leaders agreed that these books were valuable for instruction in life and manners, but did not all agree that they should be considered cannon.


The Childrens Bible provides bible lessons from the Old and New testaments. There are 216 stories written in plain english. The stories are easy to read and understand but they are not just for childern. It is a pleasure to read and enjoy these important stories.

God is Love

Let us love one another, for love comes from God and every one who loves is a child of God and knows God. He who loves not man does not know God, for God is love. God showed his love for us, for he sent his only Son into the world that through him we might have life. Love the stranger.


In Mark 12:30 Jesus said; And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this [is] the first commandment.

And the second Mark 12:31 [is] like, [namely] this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.


New Testament

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Lost Books

The Gospel of The Birth of Mary was attributed to St. Matthew and was received as genuine and authentic by early Christians. It is to be found in the works of Jerome, a Father of the Church in the 4th century and is translated from his collection.


The Book of Enoch is ascribed to the great-grandfather of Noah and is included in the cannon of some churches. It describes the fall of the angels (watchers), visions of heaven and hell and the birth of Noah. Quotes from the book of Enoch are found in the New Testament.


The First Book of Adam and Eve. Books 1 begins immediately after the expulsion from the Garden of Eden. We learn about the fall but also of the promise to save Adam and his decendents. The story depicts mans struggle against evil, the devil and sin.


The Second Book of Adam and Eve. Discusses Adam's sorrow and death. The history of the patriarchs who lived before the Flood until the birth of Noah; the children of Seth on Mount Hermon and Cain's death. It ends with the testament and translation of Enoch.


The Infancy of Jesus Christ (Infancy Gospel of Thomas) relates the life of Jesus from the ages of five to twelve. It is believed that the document was transcribed from oral traditions some time prior to the second century. The ancient writing is possibly Gnostic and many early church leaders considered it heretical.

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