For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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On the same day it shall be eaten up; ye shall leave none of it until the morrow: I am the LORD.
Leviticus
LawAnd Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, which the LORD commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.
Matthew
GospelsFor if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,
Exodus
LawAnd Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.
John
GospelsWho went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.
Deuteronomy
LawThou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the king said, Let him come in.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will come and help thee.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanOtherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahMoreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWho hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?
Job
Wisdom / JobBoast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAre there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
Job
WisdomUnto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahSo he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd she took it up, and went into the city: and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed.
Ruth
History / SamuelThou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsAnd one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
James
General EpistlesFor thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.
John
Gospels / JohnThus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:
Acts
History / LukeAnd they that were sent went their way, and found even as he had said unto them.