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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No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
Job
Wisdom / JobAs for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.
Acts
HistoryAnd after that they durst not ask him any question at all.
Luke
GospelsAnd in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;
Numbers
LawAnd for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.
Leviticus
LawWherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterReturn, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielYet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
Job
WisdomAnd when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people.
Acts
History / LukeAnd he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
Genesis
LawThus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahDeliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
Psalms
PoetryAnd what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had married her.
Mark
GospelsIn famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.
Judges
HistoryLet her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Saul built an altar unto the LORD: the same was the first altar that he built unto the LORD.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar:
Numbers
Law / MosesThe children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.