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
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And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and with a certain orator named Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul.
Acts
HistoryBy his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
Luke
GospelsSave, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersDo they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahI have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahBut the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahSo I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahIn the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThen said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.
1 Kings
HistoryFor a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
Proverbs
Wisdom(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains in abundance.
2 Chronicles
HistoryKnowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd these are the numbers of them according to the house of their fathers: Of Judah, the captains of thousands; Adnah the chief, and with him mighty men of valour three hundred thousand.
2 Chronicles
HistoryOf the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.
Revelation
ApocalypticNow the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
Luke
Gospels / LukeFor I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.