And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.
Mark
GospelsAnd thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd for the other side of the court gate, on this hand and that hand, were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
Exodus
Law / MosesWho will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted him.
Judges
HistoryAnd cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThen Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.
Luke
GospelsAnd because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)
Acts
History / LukeWe have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
Psalms
PoetryBut the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.
Mark
Gospels / MarkWhereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.
Luke
Gospels / LukeTell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
2 Samuel
HistoryHe spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,
Psalms
PoetryIn whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him.
Genesis
LawThen shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
Job
WisdomI have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.
Psalms
PoetryAnd she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son's mandrakes.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he set his heart to this also.