Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
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Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses,
Matthew
GospelsHis body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd if it appear still in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a spreading plague: thou shalt burn that wherein the plague is with fire.
Leviticus
LawAnd the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.
Luke
Gospels / LukeIf thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.
Luke
Gospels / LukeMy breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
Job
WisdomFor the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThe fifth to Nethaniah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:
Judges
History / SamuelThe fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBoth low and high, rich and poor, together.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
Acts
History / LukeI speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesGilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
Psalms
PoetryServe the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
Psalms
PoetryThen answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelOr if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed unto white, he shall come unto the priest;
Leviticus
LawBut as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.