(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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And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesHe smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.
Psalms
PoetryVerily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
John
GospelsMy skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Job
WisdomLearn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he straitly charged them, and commanded them to tell no man that thing;
Luke
GospelsAnd look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.
Exodus
LawO deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHaving therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
Hebrews
General EpistlesLet them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.
Psalms
PoetryAnd every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
Genesis
LawButter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
Deuteronomy
LawSo shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonTo take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd over the king's treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the storehouses in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the castles, was Jehonathan the son of Uzziah:
1 Chronicles
HistoryThe way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
Proverbs
WisdomBe merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.
Acts
History / LukeTherefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.