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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And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.
Acts
HistoryFor I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulI knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesHe giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThat all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBut he said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We have no more but five loaves and two fishes; except we should go and buy meat for all this people.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThe children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam,
Ezra
HistoryAnd they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraMoreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTheir land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their kings.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites;
Ezra
History / EzraAnd they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul.
Acts
History / LukeGird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
Acts
HistoryThe sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
Psalms
PoetryThe priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
Amos
Minor ProphetsBe not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
Ezra
History / EzraThen shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.