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;
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He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way.
Matthew
GospelsThen Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
Acts
HistoryThus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Job
WisdomAnd after Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the general of the king's army was Joab.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraWhen Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
John
Gospels / JohnFor while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsSo the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahSurely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.
Proverbs
WisdomWhoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
Psalms
PoetryAnd of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahIt is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Mark
Gospels / MarkHe that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he that despiseth his ways shall die.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd when Saul enquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThe children of Adin, six hundred fifty and five.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;
Judges
HistoryAnd in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words.
Job
Wisdom / JobThese be those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.