(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?
Luke
Gospels / LukeWhen John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
Acts
History / LukeAnd they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThe adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd slew famous kings: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Psalms
PoetryFor the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahTruly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahTherefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the LORD.
Genesis
LawNow it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon.
1 Samuel
HistoryWhen I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.
Psalms
PoetryIf thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
Job
Wisdom / JobBut the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.
Joshua
HistoryThese are they which spake to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and Aaron.
Exodus
Law / MosesWhither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.
Solomon's Song
PoetryFor we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
Acts
HistoryAnd as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat.
Luke
GospelsIn that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.