(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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For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
Genesis
LawYe shall not do so unto the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have made his defence unto the people.
Acts
HistoryAnd after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.
Judges
HistoryMy zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd he said unto him, Behold now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is an honourable man; all that he saith cometh surely to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can shew us our way that we should go.
1 Samuel
HistoryShe may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all that I commanded her let her observe.
Judges
History / SamuelHold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsAnd they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink?
Luke
GospelsI will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIn the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBut I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielSo Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThey set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Leviticus
LawAnd I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.
Acts
History / LukeKnowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.