Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
2 Kings
HistoryWhile he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
Job
Wisdom / JobNone calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahNow will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd unto David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThey die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
Job
WisdomAnd if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.
Joshua
HistoryAnd he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.
Judges
History / SamuelNow there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother:
Matthew
GospelsAnd Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Genesis
LawBecause to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.
Numbers
Law / MosesFor they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesMy soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersEven as I sware unto thee by the LORD God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do this day.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesShe dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for her before the LORD for the issue of her uncleanness.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.
Psalms
PoetryThe desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.
Genesis
LawAnd Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.