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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They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.
John
GospelsThus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBut this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants for ever.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
Deuteronomy
LawBe ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesBehold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
Luke
GospelsSurely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
Job
WisdomDead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
Genesis
Law / MosesOur fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
Psalms
PoetryThe rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
Exodus
LawA little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWhen he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
Revelation
ApocalypticO LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSo these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBut he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.