And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
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And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
Numbers
Law / MosesThey gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.
Ezra
History / EzraThat this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsConsider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
Luke
GospelsRemove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsPraise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.
Psalms
PoetryAt that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
John
GospelsNevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
Psalms
PoetryTherefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for an offering.
Numbers
LawWas he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three.
2 Samuel
HistoryNevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
Leviticus
LawAnd Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of the LORD your God.
Joshua
HistoryThere is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,
1 Chronicles
HistoryThe book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
Matthew
GospelsAnd we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.
Genesis
LawAnd if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
Numbers
LawAnd when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them.