Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesSo they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
Numbers
Law / MosesOught ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
2 Chronicles
History / EzraViolence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one spake saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraTake ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
Mark
GospelsAnd Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAlso thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder; for it is a ram of consecration:
Exodus
LawAnd he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.
Genesis
LawAnd the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the fat of the beast that dieth of itself, and the fat of that which is torn with beasts, may be used in any other use: but ye shall in no wise eat of it.
Leviticus
Law / MosesPour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSo when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.
Exodus
LawAnd ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
Mark
GospelsNow Benjamin begat Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third,
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.
Genesis
LawSalute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren which are with me greet you.
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesAnd these are they that waited with their children. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman a singer, the son of Joel, the son of Shemuel,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee?
Judges
HistoryHolding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck: