These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David:
1 Kings
HistoryHe that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraGod looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
Psalms
PoetryThe sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.
Nehemiah
HistoryIf there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
Leviticus
Law / MosesFor I say unto you, That unto every one which hath shall be given; and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away from him.
Luke
GospelsAnd over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
Numbers
LawAnd he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesDoth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
Job
Wisdom / JobThou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsOf fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
Genesis
LawAnd he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAlso I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielI said in my haste, All men are liars.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.
Ezra
HistoryAnd into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewI sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAdina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a captain of the Reubenites, and thirty with him,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.