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9 All this I saw, as I applied my mind to everything done under the sun. There is a time when a man lords it over others to his own [] hurt. 10 Then too, I saw the wicked buried —those who used to come and go from the holy place and receive praise [] in the city where they did this.
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
Go the extra mile. This is from a specific Bible verse, from Matthew 5:41: ‘ And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.’. Colin Dexter, creator of Inspector Morse, took this verse as the epigraph, and inspiration, for his Morse novel The Riddle of the Third Mile. To put words in someone’s mouth.
Merry in the Bible (38 instances) 38 occurrences in 11 translations. 'Merry' in the Bible. Gen 43:34. Tools. And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him. KJV, DARBY, ASV, AM, WEB. Verse Concepts. Judg 9:27. Tools.
King James Version. 23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; 24 Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. Read full chapter.
May 21, 2021 · The King James Bible has periods at the end of practically every verse. It also contains other punctuation marks, such as colons and commas, within verses. Does this English punctuation relate to anything in the Biblical text? The answer is “yes.”.
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(32) It was meet that we should make merry. —The Greek expresses moral necessity rather than mere fitness. “We must needs rejoice;” it could not be otherwise.