(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.
Solomon's Song
PoetryThe Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.
Proverbs
WisdomFor if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
2 Peter
General Epistles / PeterThe LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAsk me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.
Genesis
Law / MosesBehold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?
Luke
GospelsAnd the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsThe bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
Mark
GospelsAnd the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThey saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.
Psalms
PoetryYea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
Genesis
LawAnd the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof were before them: and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof.