Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
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But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.
Luke
GospelsBut none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
Job
Wisdom / JobFor Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown:
Numbers
LawBut he saith unto them, It is I; be not afraid.
John
Gospels / JohnAll things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonNow after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and her towns out of the hand of the Philistines.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it shall be Aaron's and his sons' by a statute for ever from the children of Israel: for it is an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering unto the LORD.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.
Acts
HistoryTen fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahHelez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Joab said, As God liveth, unless thou hadst spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone up every one from following his brother.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the king said unto them, What seemeth you best I will do. And the king stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by hundreds and by thousands.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter?
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
Revelation
ApocalypticEvery man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:
Judges
HistoryI beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.