And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
Scripture to anchor the day. Search by book, person, theme, or keyword.
Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen the king held out the golden sceptre toward Esther. So Esther arose, and stood before the king,
Esther
History / MordecaiSo then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesTo judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:
Genesis
LawCome on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto every bullock of the thirteen bullocks, two tenth deals to each ram of the two rams,
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Joshua smote them from Kadesh-barnea even unto Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon.
Joshua
HistoryFor as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBy thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut when the people of the land shall come before the LORD in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen Job answered the LORD, and said,
Job
Wisdom / JobThen said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
Genesis
Law / MosesBalaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.
Numbers
LawBoast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Proverbs
WisdomThen I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.
Proverbs
WisdomThen all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
Ezra
History / EzraFor we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?