This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThen he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Beth-el, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Beth-el the priests of the high places which he had made.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
Proverbs
WisdomBut after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielMine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
Psalms
PoetryIn those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel.
Judges
HistoryAnd it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,
2 Chronicles
HistoryWhat is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any frankincense thereon: for it is a sin offering.
Leviticus
LawMy son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Proverbs
WisdomSon of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid.
Matthew
GospelsLet them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully.
Luke
GospelsYet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: