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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In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraYe judge after the flesh; I judge no man.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berachiah, the son of Shimea,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.
Numbers
LawBut if I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrows are beyond thee; go thy way: for the LORD hath sent thee away.
1 Samuel
HistoryThou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThese are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.
Ezra
History / EzraFor my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd we went before to ship, and sailed unto Assos, there intending to take in Paul: for so had he appointed, minding himself to go afoot.
Acts
HistoryBut the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus,
Acts
HistoryFor whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
Proverbs
WisdomHe shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
Job
WisdomI know his wrath, saith the LORD; but it shall not be so; his lies shall not so effect it.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIra the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Antothite,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.
Numbers
Law / MosesFor a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one
2 Chronicles
History / EzraNow as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and armour;
2 Kings
HistoryAnd when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.
Exodus
Law / MosesThen spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Joshua
History / JoshuaHer priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielMy flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Coz begat Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.