For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
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And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
1 Samuel
HistoryThey shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanTwo are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesA lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any;
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBe thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the possession of the city, from the west side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length shall be over against one of the portions, from the west border unto the east border.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far,
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThey take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahSon of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThese shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin: