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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If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis
Law / MosesHappy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.
Psalms
PoetryLet our lord now command thy servants, which are before thee, to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on an harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelLet him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
Proverbs
WisdomEye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
Exodus
LawAnd he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;
Exodus
Law / MosesWho are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsLet the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelFor the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThe men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, an hundred fourscore and eight.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahNow therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the LORD, and in the audience of our God, keep and seek for all the commandments of the LORD your God: that ye may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance for your children after you for ever.
1 Chronicles
HistorySo they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: thus came they even to Tahpanhes.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her young both in one day.
Leviticus
Law / MosesFor thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBehold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsNow, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father be established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraNow it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD,
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he said unto me, Solomon thy son, he shall build my house and my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Mark
GospelsAll things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.