And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.
Psalms
PoetryAdd iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Beth-aven.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them.
Luke
Gospels / LukeWhat ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersYea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord.
Philemon
Pauline Epistles / PaulPaul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all:
Luke
GospelsGather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelEsteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownWho by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
Acts
History / LukeAnd say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThese are the journeys of the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Numbers
LawElse, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
Genesis
LawAnd there fell some of Manasseh to David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle: but they helped them not: for the lords of the Philistines upon advisement sent him away, saying, He will fall to his master Saul to the jeopardy of our heads.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraHow that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
Jude
General EpistlesAnd it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.
1 Kings
HistoryThese be the heads of their fathers' houses: The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these be the families of Reuben.
Exodus
LawFor as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.