Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. [Jacob to his mother] – The Bible Genesis 27:11
Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. – The Bible Luke 14:21
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? – The Bible Luke 14:28
Even so we in like manner, as soon as we were born, began to draw to our end. – The Bible Wisdom of Solomon 5:13
For whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. – The Bible Jesus Christ , Matthew 25:29
Fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient. – The Bible Saint Paul, Ephesians 5:3-4
A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. – The Bible Proverbs 28:20
And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. – The Bible Isaiah 32:2
Vindicate me, O God, And plead my cause against an ungodly nation; Oh, deliver me from the deceitful and unjust. – The Bible Psalm 43:1
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. – The Bible Hebrews 12:1-2
I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind. – The Bible Ecclesiastes 1:14
Teach me thy way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. – The Bible Psalm 27:11
And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air. But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection; lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. – The Bible 1 Corinthians 9:25-27
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little. – The Bible Isaiah 28:10
A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night. Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death – they are like the new grass of the morning: In the morning it springs up new, but by evening it is dry and withered. – The Bible Psalm 90:4-6
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. – The Bible Psalm 22:6-8