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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Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.
Exodus
LawAnd thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.
Exodus
Law / MosesBehold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHe turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersMachnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
Ezra
History / EzraLet them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAvoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us:
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesFor the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children of Ammon:
Judges
HistoryAnd these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest,
1 Kings
HistoryWoe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Aphses,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsNow the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves: so she came, and hath continued even from the morning until now, that she tarried a little in the house.
Ruth
HistoryBut if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not, it is a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBlessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.
Psalms
PoetrySpeak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD: it is most holy.
Leviticus
LawI rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.
Psalms
PoetryThat he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
1 Kings
HistoryFor this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesThe light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.