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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Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.
Proverbs
WisdomWho, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost:
Acts
History / LukeAnd it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth-lehem-judah.
Judges
HistoryTherefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd they which went before rebuked him, that he should hold his peace: but he cried so much the more, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me.
Luke
GospelsTherefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.
Joshua
HistoryBecause all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the LORD.
Numbers
Law / MosesWherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonA scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?
Luke
GospelsFor my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewOf the sons of Nebo; Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jadau, and Joel, Benaiah.
Ezra
History / EzraWho opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
2 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him.
Luke
GospelsBut we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.
Luke
GospelsOf Zerah, the family of the Zarhites: of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.
Numbers
LawEven those that were numbered of them after their families, were three thousand and two hundred.
Numbers
Law / MosesHear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBehold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
James
General EpistlesThat bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThree times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.