These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
Proverbs
WisdomBut what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesAnd judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahSo now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?
Judges
HistoryLORD, remember David, and all his afflictions:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received their inheritance; and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance:
Numbers
LawBut none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:
Genesis
Law / MosesThen said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many:
Luke
GospelsAnd there they were with David three days, eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with him,
Luke
GospelsAnd Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages:
Joshua
HistoryAnd there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, a Beth-lehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
2 Samuel
HistoryBut he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
Matthew
GospelsAnd one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.
Numbers
LawAnd when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.
2 Kings
HistoryGod brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd his mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be called John.
Luke
GospelsBut lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,