Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
Judges
HistoryThat thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, unto the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsMen shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
Job
WisdomAnd when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
Matthew
GospelsWhile he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended any thing at all.
Acts
HistoryAnd all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?
Matthew
GospelsAnd they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them, and store of victual, and of oil and wine.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
2 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and his inwards, and his dung,
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.
Genesis
Law / MosesHonour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesIs not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBut I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesHow thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.