Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
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Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
2 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesBehold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost.
Acts
HistoryThus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThey that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beer-sheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosIsrael hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.
Joshua
HistoryMy sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThen Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of those countries, when they had heard that the LORD fought against the enemies of Israel.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here present with us, ye see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem, and also here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.
Acts
HistoryAnd the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFor, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
Luke
GospelsTherefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesSo Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus
LawNow when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people, he entered into Capernaum.
Luke
GospelsAnd David came to Baal-perazim, and David smote them there, and said, The LORD hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baal-perazim.
2 Samuel
HistoryHe hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy;
Luke
Gospels / LukeLet it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanI rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulLet my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy word.