Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
John
GospelsWho fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.
Genesis
Law / MosesBut the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?
Luke
GospelsFor I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the host.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd it was so, that when they that bare the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanJesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
John
GospelsAnd he said unto Jether his firstborn, Up, and slay them. But the youth drew not his sword: for he feared, because he was yet a youth.
Judges
HistoryAnd a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.
Exodus
LawIt shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielKnow ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Romans
Pauline EpistlesA man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
Proverbs
WisdomHe is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThe sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
Acts
HistoryThe children of Adin, six hundred fifty and five.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahIn that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:
Luke
GospelsThat the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
Luke
GospelsBut the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
Mark
GospelsThen Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.