A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD.
Joshua
History / JoshuaBehold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
Job
Wisdom / JobNow Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelHow hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
Job
Wisdom / Job(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
Romans
Pauline EpistlesWoe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
Luke
Gospels / LukeLift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBecause all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the LORD.
Numbers
Law / MosesThen the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsOh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
Psalms
PoetryAnd shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
Luke
GospelsTheir horses, seven hundred thirty and six: their mules, two hundred forty and five:
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
Exodus
Law / MosesUpon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahBut they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:
Matthew
GospelsAccept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonSo all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD: and they anointed David king over Israel.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBut have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahArise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsFor, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.