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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Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Revelation
ApocalypticWhen God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.
2 Kings
HistoryThen will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.
Exodus
LawAnd when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace;
Esther
HistoryAs when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.
Matthew
GospelsNow in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,
Luke
GospelsHe that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWhy doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?
Mark
GospelsAnd Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
Genesis
Law / MosesThen said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielI intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.
Psalms
PoetryNow the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
1 Chronicles
History / Ezra(Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was noised throughout all the country.
Joshua
HistoryAnd he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold.