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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Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him.
Luke
GospelsThat thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesJude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
Jude
General Epistles / JudeHe that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.
Proverbs
WisdomQuicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHave we not power to eat and to drink?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:
Matthew
GospelsMake their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
Psalms
PoetryAnd as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThis is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
Revelation
ApocalypticHave mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIn the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHis roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.
Job
WisdomAnd he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
2 Kings
HistoryWherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he tarried so long in the temple.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.