Cold Weather

As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.

She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

• Fasting

In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?

• Cord

Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor. read more I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead. There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit. show less

• Security
• Self-delusion
• Self-delusion

I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.

He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.

And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.

By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.

And the servants and officers stood there, who had made a fire of coals; for it was cold: and they warmed themselves: and Peter stood with them, and warmed himself.

• Servant

And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.

But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:

As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.