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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Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd I gave Gilead unto Machir.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumBecause the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesIf when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
Mark
Gospels / MarkBut there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the LORD.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraCometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraUnderstanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.
Proverbs
WisdomNow it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,
Nehemiah
HistoryAs the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Solomon's Song
PoetryMy lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.
Genesis
LawBrethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Iphedeiah, and Penuel, the sons of Shashak;
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas:
Luke
GospelsThey turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Job
WisdomAnd they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breastplate.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that was at Gibeon,