A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.
Judges
HistoryAnd their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIf any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when I would have known the cause wherefore they accused him, I brought him forth into their council:
Acts
HistoryIn the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.
Mark
GospelsFor they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done.
John
Gospels / JohnHe delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority commandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him.
Mark
GospelsO Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThe fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer:
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
Acts
HistoryDelilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.
Mark
GospelsAnd when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?
Judges
HistoryThese are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
Numbers
LawAnd he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.