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;
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBreak thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.
Judges
History / SamuelThus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.
Numbers
LawBe in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.
Micah
Minor ProphetsBut mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the sons of Eshek his brother were, Ulam his firstborn, Jehush the second, and Eliphelet the third.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.
Luke
Gospels / LukeEvery day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever.
Psalms
PoetryForty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.
Joshua
HistoryThe LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWho covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
Psalms
PoetryFor, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.
Luke
GospelsThey answered and said unto him, If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up unto thee.
John
GospelsHer cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahI have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonHe hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.
Ruth
History / SamuelI would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.