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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There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the coasts thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.
1 Samuel
HistoryA man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
Titus
Pauline EpistlesWith my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.
Genesis
LawHe is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahI beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahSo Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he took all: he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThen he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
Numbers
LawAnd ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.
Joel
Minor ProphetsGod looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
Psalms
PoetryBut Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.
1 Samuel
HistoryTheir heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
Job
WisdomAnd when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThis is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall,
Leviticus
LawAnd the vulture, and the kite after his kind;
Leviticus
Law / MosesHe will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
Job
Wisdom / JobNeither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.