A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
Mark
GospelsFor true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd they that had eaten were about four thousand: and he sent them away.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
Luke
GospelsO LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBy reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
Psalms
PoetryThou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesShe hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
Mark
GospelsAnd that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.
Genesis
LawAnd Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
2 Samuel
HistorySurely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
Numbers
Law / MosesThe sons of Moses were, Gershom, and Eliezer.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahSo are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty:
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.
Ezra
History / EzraThou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, mine heart shall be knit unto you: but if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies, seeing there is no wrong in mine hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.
Esther
History / MordecaiPreserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
Psalms
PoetryIf any man have an ear, let him hear.
Revelation
ApocalypticBecause for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.