Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
Proverbs
WisdomBut among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
Numbers
Law / MosesFor when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.
Matthew
GospelsThe desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine,
Mark
Gospels / MarkBehold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.
Acts
History / LukeAnd hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
Genesis
Law / MosesThen will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsWhen I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulI will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
Job
WisdomAnd he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the king went forth, and all the people after him, and tarried in a place that was far off.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched.
Numbers
LawSeeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,