Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesSo I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd David said to Achish, Surely thou shalt know what thy servant can do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make thee keeper of mine head for ever.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.
Numbers
Law / MosesLORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSpeak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD: it is most holy.
Leviticus
LawAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
Exodus
LawAnd the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy,
Ezra
History / EzraThe ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
2 Kings
HistoryConcerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHe hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
Job
Wisdom / JobPass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsMany are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
Psalms
PoetrySaying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.
Luke
GospelsAnd this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do.
John
GospelsIf iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.
Matthew
GospelsThe cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsMy breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.
Job
WisdomAnd he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.