And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosYea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsI have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThey shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThat, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Psalms
PoetryThey said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
Exodus
LawShe looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
Proverbs
WisdomMoreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel.
Genesis
LawBut the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanCalling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth.
John
Gospels / JohnThe burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahMine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Job
Wisdom / JobBut the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnYe shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
Leviticus
LawAnd Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was ruler of the treasures.
1 Chronicles
HistoryA man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
Proverbs
WisdomAnd it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him;