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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That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulIf brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd saith unto him, See thou say nothing to any man: but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing those things which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
1 Kings
HistoryYet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewO continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he slew it; and Moses took of the blood of it, and put it upon the tip of Aaron's right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot.
Leviticus
LawAnd the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahO my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.
Psalms
PoetryThen ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever.
Joshua
HistoryWhen the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?
Matthew
GospelsFor it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Luke
GospelsAnd that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.
1 Samuel
HistoryPrepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king.
Esther
History / MordecaiBlessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.
Mark
GospelsAnd he brought his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.
Joshua
HistoryNow when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThey that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
Job
Wisdom / JobA fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.
Proverbs
WisdomFor in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.