And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsTherefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
Amos
Minor ProphetsTherefore David enquired again of God; and God said unto him, Go not up after them; turn away from them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
Amos
Minor ProphetsIn the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut the chief priests moved the people, that he should rather release Barabbas unto them.
Mark
Gospels / MarkHe was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
Joshua
HistoryThen the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?
Mark
GospelsOnly rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
Numbers
Law / MosesSay ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaHave ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsUntil the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
Exodus
LawAnd whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counsellor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he offered sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone.
2 Samuel
HistoryAbout forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.
Luke
Gospels / LukeO generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.