A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraArise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahMoreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesBut since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus saith the LORD; Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThere shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAs the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
Numbers
LawAnd the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAlso thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto thee.
Job
WisdomFor the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.
Psalms
PoetryAsk thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.
Numbers
LawAnd Jeuz, and Shachia, and Mirma. These were his sons, heads of the fathers.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraKeeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Exodus
LawThe same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation.
Acts
HistoryNor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.
Matthew
GospelsThen Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonWhat is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.