Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:
Psalms
PoetryAnd he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.
Exodus
Law / MosesTake fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonTherefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewIn the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsIf he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
John
Gospels / JohnThe whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Hananiah, and Elam, and Antothijah,
1 Chronicles
HistoryWe have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things by mouth.
Acts
HistoryAnd Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThat they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFolly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAhi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of their fathers.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:
2 Chronicles
HistoryOf the sons of Pahath-moab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males.
Ezra
History / EzraSix days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.
Exodus
LawJudah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Job
Wisdom / JobBut Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.