And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.
1 Samuel
HistoryI call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesShadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.
Daniel
Major ProphetsFrom the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.
Psalms
PoetryWhen he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was.
John
GospelsNicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren.
Genesis
LawWhen they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.
Genesis
LawFor there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal; and Merib-baal begat Micah.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielLest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
Deuteronomy
LawOne God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesAnd I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
Revelation
ApocalypticO spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulShallum, Amariah, and Joseph.
Ezra
HistoryAnd it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts.