And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
Job
WisdomThe church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son.
1 Peter
General EpistlesBut ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWhen he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:
Matthew
GospelsAnd Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
Genesis
Law / MosesThou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
Genesis
LawAnd the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
Judges
History / SamuelA voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahLORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.
Psalms
PoetryIn their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.
Daniel
Major ProphetsJesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
John
GospelsFor thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him:
Mark
GospelsWho smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.
Joshua
HistoryTouching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.
Job
WisdomEven all the Jews returned out of all places whither they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.
Mark
GospelsTherefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.