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 the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
Genesis
LawFear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.
John
Gospels / JohnA wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonSo also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall.
1 Kings
HistoryWe have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnFor thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersOtherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.
Genesis
Law / MosesTo a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
Luke
GospelsFor I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal; and Merib-baal begat Micah.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeA friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonEven men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and every person that Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahMoreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBut he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.
Deuteronomy
LawFor thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.