Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonI am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
Leviticus
Law / MosesFire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word:
Psalms
PoetryThou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
Job
WisdomIn the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food: we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks.
Genesis
LawIf ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulIf the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThen Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahAnd when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let her drive.
Acts
HistoryAnd when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?
Luke
GospelsA cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits shall be the height thereof: the horns thereof shall be of the same.
Exodus
Law / MosesBehold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.
John
GospelsFor though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesFor it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsI will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD'S heave offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Numbers
Law / MosesWhen Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples.
John
Gospels / JohnHast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
2 Kings
HistoryThere was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd it came to pass, that, as soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished, he departed to his own house.