Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.
2 Samuel
HistoryRaging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Jude
General EpistlesFor Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
Acts
HistoryI made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar?
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days.
Acts
History / LukeAnd it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsEven of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one portion of fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Numbers
LawThe word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsEven in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.
Joshua
History / JoshuaTherefore they enquired of the LORD further, if the man should yet come thither. And the LORD answered, Behold, he hath hid himself among the stuff.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelSing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.
Psalms
PoetryNow 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
History / JeremiahAnd their drink offerings shall be half an hin of wine unto a bullock, and the third part of an hin unto a ram, and a fourth part of an hin unto a lamb: this is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year.
Numbers
LawIn the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that telleth them, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahNow therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would enquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.
Acts
History / LukeMoses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.
Deuteronomy
LawThen Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahZaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahSo there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.