And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
Numbers
LawThen Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,
Joshua
History / JoshuaI said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThen the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHadoram also, and Uzal, and Diklah,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraTo receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd this shall be a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Ben-hadad said unto him, The cities, which my father took from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahKnow ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Psalms
PoetryHe saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIf there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesLeah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.
Genesis
LawAnd all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
2 Kings
HistoryBut all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came in before them.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBehold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains in abundance.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWhat man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;
Leviticus
LawClouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.