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
Scripture to anchor the day. Search by book, person, theme, or keyword.
Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.
Luke
GospelsSo the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.
Matthew
GospelsAnd Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jethlah,
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:
Exodus
LawYe who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
Amos
Minor ProphetsThou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.
Deuteronomy
LawSettle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:
Luke
GospelsAnd the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched.
Numbers
LawA voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father's concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong.
2 Samuel
HistoryBy faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownHis heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
Job
WisdomAnd he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.
1 Samuel
HistoryFor I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of their's, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.
Numbers
LawFools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
Psalms
PoetryUzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jehiel the sons of Hothan the Aroerite,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.
Mark
GospelsThe earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
Job
Wisdom / JobWhile 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
WisdomAnd it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
Luke
GospelsAnd all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.