For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielLet them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
Judges
History / SamuelMy brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
James
General Epistles / JamesNow if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulMoreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahOne kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Numbers
Law / MosesA time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonSo David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesI have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
Job
WisdomBut when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be our's.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThey kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAll that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.
Exodus
LawFor if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the people journeyed from Kibroth-hattaavah unto Hazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth.
Numbers
Law / MosesPour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryAnd some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he calleth Elias.