And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.
Solomon's Song
PoetryThou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThese are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity, of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and came again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one unto his city;
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsIf ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
John
Gospels / JohnA fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
Psalms
PoetryIn his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
2 Samuel
HistoryThy name, O LORD, endureth for ever; and thy memorial, O LORD, throughout all generations.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and were set down together, Peter sat down among them.
Luke
GospelsAnd thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAll unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnIf iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
Job
WisdomLet mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
Job
WisdomAnd many other things blasphemously spake they against him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.
Acts
HistoryI will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsThe LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Beth-lehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the LORD is with him.
1 Samuel
HistoryHe saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius.