Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with her suburbs, and Gath-rimmon with her suburbs; two cities.
Joshua
HistoryO daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
Psalms
PoetryTill a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;
Leviticus
LawAnd the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
Judges
History / SamuelYea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThe third, Absalom the son of Maachah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur: the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThe children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.
Nehemiah
HistoryA window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
Genesis
LawHe only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAt the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAs they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThe voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.
Psalms
PoetryWhen thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelNow it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.
Acts
HistoryFor Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahAnd the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
Matthew
GospelsThen Bath-sheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.