Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
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And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them for an offering unto the LORD.
Numbers
Law / MosesThe carcases of every beast which divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.
Leviticus
LawThat thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.
Job
WisdomAt the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWhen the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them;
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Beth-shemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us: it was a chance that happened to us.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFor here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
Hebrews
General EpistlesMercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
Jude
General EpistlesAnd two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it, by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make it; and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it withal.
Exodus
LawAnd the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahI go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man;
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz.
Ruth
HistoryThe Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAs I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThis is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesO sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
Psalms
PoetryWhen a ruler hath sinned, and done somewhat through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD his God concerning things which should not be done, and is guilty;
Leviticus
Law / MosesAttend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBe not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.
Joshua
HistoryFor thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not: