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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But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
James
General EpistlesNow the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesIf any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.
Genesis
Law / MosesBe not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesCalled of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownThe morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
Proverbs
WisdomI, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahOur fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
1 Kings
HistoryThis day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelMy zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.
Psalms
PoetryHear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
Joel
Minor ProphetsIf I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
Job
WisdomAnd all that dwelt at Lydda and Saron saw him, and turned to the Lord.
Acts
HistoryMany of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you:
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue:
Matthew
GospelsAnd God spake unto Noah, saying,
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not.
Numbers
LawAnd the soldiers led him away into the hall, called Praetorium; and they call together the whole band.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThe people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.