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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Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
Leviticus
Law / MosesOf the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the vail of the covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Exodus
LawBut he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?
Acts
HistoryAnd the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
Numbers
Law / MosesThou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.
Psalms
PoetryThen cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBlessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesA sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.
Luke
GospelsBut if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThen the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:
Acts
History / LukeAnd I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.
Mark
Gospels / MarkFor he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd David went on, and grew great, and the LORD God of hosts was with him.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAt thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
Psalms
PoetryBut hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, which were better than thyself:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.