Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
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And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
Genesis
Law / MosesI behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBut do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from thee.
Acts
History / LukeAnd they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
Leviticus
LawThen stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.
Ezra
HistoryAnd with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
Exodus
Law / MosesDost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?
Job
WisdomAnd these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAll things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
John
GospelsAnd the sons of Jeconiah; Assir, Salathiel his son,
1 Chronicles
HistoryNow it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
Psalms
PoetryThen the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten hither Micaiah the son of Imlah.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him.
Acts
History / LukeAnd their coast was from Heleph, from Allon to Zaanannim, and Adami, Nekeb, and Jabneel, unto Lakum; and the outgoings thereof were at Jordan:
Joshua
HistoryAnd thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.
Numbers
LawAnd the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.