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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Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?
John
GospelsAnd he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
Genesis
Law / MosesYe fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?
Luke
Gospels / LukeIn the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonHow is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might enquire of him?
2 Chronicles
History / EzraOf Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.
Numbers
Law / MosesDraw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersMine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.
Psalms
PoetryBut love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
Luke
GospelsAnd we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.
Genesis
LawA stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
Proverbs
WisdomHe that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThen all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThey wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
Psalms
PoetryHe maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
Job
WisdomThe oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD shall be of five and twenty thousand in length, and of ten thousand in breadth.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.
Judges
HistoryWe are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD'S house.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahYe shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.