Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesI will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaOne God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits broad.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
Matthew
GospelsAnd he called the porters; and they told it to the king's house within.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelOf the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
Numbers
LawIn Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Matthew
GospelsIn his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsYe shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.
Deuteronomy
LawFear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd to them which were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt.
1 Samuel
HistoryWhat thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesIf there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFor God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?
Matthew
GospelsBehold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsAnd no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.