For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesLikewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
Exodus
Law / MosesBecause there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
Job
Wisdom / JobNow therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahDoth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBy little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
Exodus
LawEach charger of silver weighing an hundred and thirty shekels, each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels weighed two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
Numbers
LawHe that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, Ye sought for David in times past to be king over you:
2 Samuel
HistoryMy people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour.
Esther
History / MordecaiHe that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
John
Gospels / JohnIf any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
Deuteronomy
LawThe words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but obey their father's commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSeven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the king's face, and which sat the first in the kingdom;)
Esther
HistoryGod hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Elienai, and Zilthai, and Eliel,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.