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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I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
Psalms
PoetrySaying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up his pillars.
Exodus
LawBut the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAnd the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.
Genesis
LawFor all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.
Luke
Gospels / LukeFor I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
Exodus
LawI press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;
Luke
GospelsThe sons of Jehieli; Zetham, and Joel his brother, which were over the treasures of the house of the LORD.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThen the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man.
Judges
HistoryAnd one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel.
2 Kings
HistoryHappy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIn the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth.
Genesis
LawAnd the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these are the sons of Becher.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel;
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,
Acts
History / LukeRiches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Proverbs
WisdomAs they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil.
Matthew
GospelsTo whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
Acts
HistoryThen said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.