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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But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulNeither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
Job
Wisdom / JobBlessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
Psalms
PoetryFor he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
Job
WisdomFor they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesNow therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThat I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesIn like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
Luke
GospelsSo he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season.
Acts
HistoryHear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahThis is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
Acts
HistoryThat they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy
LawSo Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh before the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
Numbers
LawAnd thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.
Exodus
LawAnd Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and Balak also went his way.
Numbers
LawAnd Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came not. And they came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full from one end to another.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.
Numbers
LawBut he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
Matthew
GospelsAnd it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
Genesis
LawThen the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation.