Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
Genesis
LawAnd the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
Judges
History / SamuelHast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD:
Genesis
LawAnd the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
Judges
HistoryAnd he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?
1 Kings
History / JeremiahSlothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Proverbs
WisdomFor he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewNow these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
Acts
History / Luke(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
Matthew
GospelsThat ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
2 Peter
General EpistlesTherefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd David enquired of God, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? and wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said unto him, Go up; for I will deliver them into thine hand.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahYet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or their's.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThey said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work?
John
Gospels / JohnOur skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.