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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When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThey shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land.
Deuteronomy
LawThey that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThe righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when he had gone a little further thence, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
Genesis
LawAs for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
Job
WisdomAnd all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.
Genesis
LawAnd they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the LORD: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus.
Luke
GospelsAnd Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a plague of leprosy, and shall be shewed unto the priest:
Leviticus
LawHe hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples were with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom say the people that I am?
Luke
Gospels / LukeIf the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.
Leviticus
LawThe young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsWhen I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulWisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.