(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it:
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahWhen thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.
Deuteronomy
LawShall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?
Numbers
Law / MosesNow for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,
Acts
HistoryAnd Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who dwelt in Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baal-meon:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
Hebrews
General EpistlesThe young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Job
Wisdom / JobHalhul, Beth-zur, and Gedor,
Joshua
History / JoshuaFor the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
Mark
GospelsAnd the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Beth-horon southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjath-baal, which is Kirjath-jearim, a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.
Joshua
HistoryAnd he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
Genesis
Law / MosesTherefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons.
Judges
History / SamuelThen the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?
Mark
GospelsBut if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulNow the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings
HistoryThese were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.
Joshua
HistoryHe arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanYet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielStand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.