This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?
Mark
Gospels / MarkThou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersUntil the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsNow Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.
John
GospelsFor destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?
Mark
GospelsFor, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahLord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
Psalms
PoetryO LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the woman of Tekoah said unto the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house: and the king and his throne be guiltless.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanWherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.
1 Samuel
HistoryBut let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Amos
Minor Prophets / Amos(As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king's house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women.
Esther
HistoryAnd there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;
Genesis
Law / MosesThe stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
Job
Wisdom / JobWhereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families, according to the house of their fathers.
Numbers
LawFor John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing.
Acts
HistorySwear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father's house.