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1 Chronicles 15:12
And said to them, You are the heads of the families of the Levites: make yourselves holy, you and your brothers, so that you may take the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place which I have made ready for it.

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1 Chronicles 15:12
And said to them, You are the heads of the families of the Levites: make yourselves holy, you and your brothers, so that you may take the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place which I have made ready for it.

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Exodus 14:4
And I will make Pharaoh's heart hard, and he will come after them and I will be honoured over Pharaoh and all his army, so that the Egyptians may see that I am the Lord. And they did so.

Exodus 29:43
There I will come face to face with the children of Israel, and the Tent will be made holy by my glory

Exodus 29:44
I will make holy the Tent of meeting and the altar: and Aaron and his sons I will make holy, to be my priests

Leviticus 8:35
And you are to keep watch for the Lord at the door of the Tent of meeting day and night for seven days, so that death may not come to you: for so he has given me orders.

Leviticus 21:6
Let them be holy to their God and not make the name of their God common; for the fire offerings of the Lord and the bread of their God are offered by them, and they are to be holy.

Leviticus 21:8
And he is to be holy in your eyes, for by him the bread of your God is offered; he is to be holy in your eyes, for I the Lord, who make you holy, am holy.

Leviticus 21:15
And he may not make his seed unclean among his people, for I the Lord have made him holy.

Leviticus 21:17
Say to Aaron, If a man of your family, in any generation, is damaged in body, let him not come near to make the offering of the bread of his God.

Leviticus 21:21
No man of the offspring of Aaron whose body is damaged in any way may come near to give the fire offerings of the Lord: he is damaged, he may not come near to make the offerings.

Leviticus 22:9
So then, let them keep what I have put into their care, for fear that sin may come on them because of it, so causing their death because they have made it common: I am the Lord, who make them holy.

Numbers 20:12
Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Because you had not enough faith in me to keep my name holy before the children of Israel, you will not take this people into the land which I have given them.

Deuteronomy 32:51
Because of your sin against me before the children of Israel at the waters of Meribath Kadesh in the waste land of Zin; because you did not keep my name holy among the children of Israel.

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Exodus 30:17
And the Lord said to Moses,

Exodus 30:18
You are to make a brass washing-vessel, with a brass base; and put it between the Tent of meeting and the altar, with water in it;

Exodus 30:19
That it may be used by Aaron and his sons for washing their hands and feet;

Exodus 30:20
Whenever they go into the Tent of meeting they are to be washed with water, to keep them from death; and whenever they come near to do the work of the altar, or to make an offering by fire to the Lord,

Exodus 30:21
Their hands and feet are to be washed. so that they may be safe from death: this is an order to them for ever; to him and his seed from generation to generation.

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Numbers 3:31
In their care are the ark, and the table, and the lights, and the altars, and all the vessels used in the holy place, and the veil, and all they are used for.

Numbers 7:9
But to the sons of Kohath he gave nothing; because they had the care of the holy place, taking it about on their backs.

Deuteronomy 10:8
At that time the Lord had the tribe of Levi marked out to take up the ark of the Lord's agreement, to be before the Lord and to do his work and to give blessings in his name, to this day.

1 Chronicles 15:26
And when God gave help to the Levites who were lifting up the ark of the agreement of the Lord, they made an offering of seven oxen and seven sheep.

1 Chronicles 23:24
These were the sons of Levi, grouped by families, the heads of the families of those who were numbered by name, by heads, all those of twenty years old and over who did the work of the house of the Lord.

1 Chronicles 23:26
And from now, there will be no need for the House of the Lord, and the vessels used in it, to be moved about by the Levites.

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Joshua 3:8
And you are to give orders to the priests who take up the ark of the agreement, and say, When you come to the edge of the waters of Jordan, go no further.

Joshua 4:9
And Joshua put up twelve stones in the middle of Jordan, where the feet of the priests who took up the ark of the agreement had been placed: and there they are to this day.

Joshua 4:18
And when the priests who took up the ark of the Lord's agreement came up out of Jordan and their feet came out on to dry land, the waters of Jordan went back to their place, overflowing its edges as before.

Joshua 8:33
And all Israel, those who were Israelites by birth, as well as the men from other lands living with them, and their responsible men and their overseers and judges, took their places round the ark, in front of the priests, the Levites, whose work it was to take up the ark of the Lord's agreement; half of them were stationed in front of Mount Gerizim and half in front of Mount Ebal, in agreement with the orders for the blessing of the children of Israel which Moses, the servant of the Lord, had given.

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Joshua 6:12
And early in the morning Joshua got up, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord.

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Exodus 19:6
And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel.

Exodus 19:14
Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and made the people holy; and their clothing was washed.

1 Samuel 6:20
And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to keep his place before the Lord, this holy God? and to whom may he go from us?

2 Chronicles 30:15
Then on the fourteenth day of the second month they put the Passover lambs to death: and the priests and the Levites were shamed, and made themselves holy and took burned offerings into the house of the Lord.

Psalms 89:7
God is greatly to be feared among the saints, and to be honoured over all those who are about him.

Psalms 119:120
My flesh is moved for fear of you; I give honour to your decisions.

Isaiah 52:11
Away! away! go out from there, touching no unclean thing; go out from among her; be clean, you who take up the vessels of the Lord.

Ezekiel 20:41
I will take pleasure in you as in a sweet smell, when I take you out from the peoples and get you together from the countries where you have been sent in flight; and I will make myself holy in you before the eyes of the nations.

Ezekiel 42:13
And he said to me, The north rooms and the south rooms in front of the separate place are the holy rooms, where the priests who come near the Lord take the most holy things for their food: there the most holy things are placed, with the meal offering and the sin-offering and the offering for error; for the place is holy.

2 Corinthians 6:16
And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Hebrews 12:28
If then, we have a kingdom which will never be moved, let us have grace, so that we may give God such worship as is pleasing to him with fear and respect:

Hebrews 12:29
For our God is an all-burning fire.

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1 Samuel 22:20
And Abiathar, one of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, got away and went in flight after David;

1 Samuel 22:21
And gave him the news of how Saul had put to death the Lord's priests.

1 Samuel 22:22
And David said to Abiathar, I was certain that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would take the news to Saul: I am responsible for the lives of all your father's family.

1 Samuel 22:23
Keep here with me and have no fear; for he who has designs on my life has designs on yours: but with me you will be safe.

1 Samuel 23:6
Now when Abiathar, the son of Ahimelech, went in flight to David, he came down to Keilah with the ephod in his hand.

1 Samuel 23:7
And news was given to Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, Now God has given him into my hands; for by going into a walled town with locked doors, he has let himself be shut in.

1 Samuel 23:8
And Saul sent for all the people to come to the fight, and go down to Keilah to make an attack on David and his men.

1 Samuel 23:9
And it was clear to David that Saul had evil designs against him, and he said to Abiathar the priest, Come here with the ephod.

2 Samuel 15:24
Then Zadok came, and Abiathar, and with them the ark of God's agreement: and they put down the ark of God, till all the people from the town had gone by.

2 Samuel 15:29
So Zadok and Abiathar took the ark of God back to Jerusalem, and did not go away from there.

1 Kings 2:26
And to Abiathar the priest the king said, Go to Anathoth, to your fields; for death would be your right reward; but I will not put you to death now, because you took up the ark of the Lord God before David my father, and you were with him in all his troubles.

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1 Kings 8:4
They took up the ark of the Lord, and the Tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels which were in the Tent; all these the priests and the Levites took up.

1 Kings 8:6
And the priests took the ark of the agreement of the Lord and put it in its place in the inner room of the house, in the most holy place, under the wings of the winged ones.

2 Chronicles 1:2
And Solomon sent word to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds and to the judges and to every chief in all Israel, heads of their families.

2 Chronicles 5:2
Then Solomon sent for all the responsible men of Israel, all the chiefs of the tribes and the heads of families of the children of Israel, to come to Jerusalem and take the ark of the Lord's agreement up out of the town of David, which is Zion.

2 Chronicles 5:6
And King Solomon and all the men of Israel who had come together there with him, were before the ark, making offerings of sheep and oxen more than might be numbered.

2 Chronicles 5:7
And the priests took the ark of the Lord's agreement and put it in its place, in the inner room of the house, in the most holy place, under the wings of the winged ones.

2 Chronicles 5:8
For their wings were outstretched over the place where the ark was, covering the ark and its rods.

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1 Chronicles 9:34
These were heads of families of the Levites in their generations, chief men; they were living at Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 26:31
Of the Hebronites, Jerijah was the chief of all the Hebronites, in their generations by families. In the fortieth year of the rule of David a search was made, and able men were seen among them at Jazer of Gilead.

1 Chronicles 26:32
And his brothers were two thousand, seven hundred able men, heads of families, whom King David made overseers over the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in everything to do with God, and for the king's business.

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2 Samuel 6:14
And David, clothed in a linen ephod, was dancing before the Lord with all his strength.

1 Chronicles 13:9
And when they came to the grain-floor of Chidon, Uzza put out his hand to keep the ark in its place, for the oxen were slipping.

1 Chronicles 13:12
And so great was David's fear of God that day, that he said, How may I let the ark of God come to me?

1 Chronicles 13:13
So David did not let the ark come back to him to the town of David, but had it turned away and put into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

Psalms 6:1
To the chief music-maker on corded instruments, on the Sheminith. A Psalm. Of David. O Lord, do not be bitter with me in your wrath; do not send punishment on me in the heat of your passion.

Psalms 6:2
Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am wasted away: make me well, for even my bones are troubled.

2 Corinthians 4:8
Troubles are round us on every side, but we are not shut in; things are hard for us, but we see a way out of them;

2 Corinthians 4:9
We are cruelly attacked, but not without hope; we are made low, but we are not without help;

2 Corinthians 12:9
And he said to me, My grace is enough for you, for my power is made complete in what is feeble. Most gladly, then, will I take pride in my feeble body, so that the power of Christ may be on me.

2 Corinthians 12:10
So I take pleasure in being feeble, in unkind words, in needs, in cruel attacks, in troubles, on account of Christ: for when I am feeble, then am I strong.

Hebrews 12:4
Till now you have not given your blood in your fight against sin:

Hebrews 12:5
And you have not kept in mind the word which says to you as to sons, My son, do not make little of the Lord's punishment, and do not give up hope when you are judged by him;

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Joshua 7:7
And Joshua said, O Lord God, why have you taken us over Jordan only to give us up into the hands of the Amorites for our destruction? If only it had been enough for us to keep on the other side of Jordan!

Joshua 7:8
O Lord, what am I to say now that Israel have given way before their attackers?

Joshua 7:9
For when the news comes to the Canaanites and all the people of the land, they will come up, shutting us in and cutting off our name from the earth: and what will you do for the honour of your great name?

Joshua 7:10
Then the Lord said to Joshua, Get up; what are you doing with your face to the earth?

Joshua 7:11
Israel has done wrong, sinning against the agreement which I made with them: they have even taken of the cursed thing; acting falsely like thieves they have put it among their goods.

2 Samuel 6:7
And the wrath of the Lord, burning against Uzzah, sent destruction on him because he had put his hand on the ark, and death came to him there by the ark of God.

2 Samuel 6:8
And David was angry because of the Lord's outburst of wrath against Uzzah: and he gave that place the name Perez-uzzah, which is its name to this day.

2 Samuel 6:9
And such was David's fear of the Lord that day, that he said, How may I let the ark of God come to me?

2 Samuel 6:10
So David did not let the ark of the Lord come back to him to the town of David: but had it turned away and put into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

1 Chronicles 13:10
And the wrath of the Lord, burning against Uzza, sent destruction on him because he had put his hand on the ark, and death came to him there before God.

1 Chronicles 13:11
And David was angry because of the Lord's outburst of wrath against Uzza, and he gave that place the name Perez-uzza, to this day.

Hebrews 12:3
Give thought to him who has undergone so much of the hate of sinners against himself, so that you may not be tired and feeble of purpose.

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1 Chronicles 14:1
And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David with cedar-trees, and stoneworkers and woodworkers for the building of his house.

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1 Chronicles 14:2
And David saw that the Lord had made his position safe as king over Israel, lifting up his kingdom on high because of his people Israel.

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1 Chronicles 15:6
Of the sons of Merari: Asaiah the chief, and his brothers, two hundred and twenty;

1 Chronicles 15:7
Of the sons of Gershom: Joel the chief, and his brothers, a hundred and thirty;

1 Chronicles 15:8
Of the sons of Elizaphan: Shemaiah the chief, and his brothers, two hundred;

1 Chronicles 15:9
Of the sons of Hebron: Eliel the chief, and his brothers, eighty;

1 Chronicles 15:10
Of the sons of Uzziel: Amminadab the chief, and his brothers, a hundred and twelve.

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1 Chronicles 16:1
Then they took in the ark of God and put it inside the tent which David had put up for it; and they made offerings, burned offerings and peace-offerings before God.

Psalms 132:5
Till I have got a place for the Lord, a resting-place for the great God of Jacob.

Psalms 132:8
Come back, O Lord, to your resting-place; you and the ark of your strength.

Acts 7:46
Who was pleasing to God; and he had a desire to make a holy tent for the God of Jacob.

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1 Chronicles 24:28
Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.

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1 Chronicles 25:6
All these, under the direction of their father, made music in the house of the Lord, with brass and corded instruments, for the worship of the house of God; Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman being under the orders of the king.

2 Chronicles 5:13
And when the players on horns, and those who made melody in song, with one voice were sounding the praise and glory of the Lord; with loud voices and with wind instruments, and brass and corded instruments of music, praising the Lord and saying, He is good; his mercy is unchanging for ever: then the house was full of the cloud of the glory of the Lord,

2 Chronicles 29:6
For our fathers have done evil, sinning in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have given him up, turning away their faces from the house of the Lord, and turning their backs on him.

2 Chronicles 29:7
The doors of his house have been shut and the lights put out; no perfumes have been burned or offerings made to the God of Israel in his holy place.

2 Chronicles 29:8
And so the wrath of the Lord has come on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has given them up to be a cause of fear and wonder and shame, as your eyes have seen.

2 Chronicles 29:9
For see, our fathers have been put to death with the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives have been taken away prisoners because of this.

2 Chronicles 29:10
Now it is my purpose to make an agreement with the Lord, the God of Israel, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from us.

2 Chronicles 29:11
My sons, take care now: for you have been marked out by the Lord to come before him and to be his servants, burning offerings to him.

Ezra 8:15
And I made them come together by the river flowing to Ahava; and we were there in tents for three days: and after viewing the people and the priests I saw that no sons of Levi were there.

Ezra 8:16
Then I sent for Eliezer and Ariel and Shemaiah and Elnathan Jarib and Elnathan and Nathan and Zechariah and Meshullam, all responsible men; and for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were wise men.

Ezra 8:17
And I sent them to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and gave them orders what to say to Iddo and his brothers the Nethinim at the place Casiphia, so that they might come back to us with men to do the work of the house of our God.

Ezra 8:18
And by the help of our God they got for us Ish-sechel, one of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah with his sons and brothers, eighteen;

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2 Chronicles 11:13
And the priests and Levites who were in all Israel came together to him from every part of their country.

2 Chronicles 11:14
For the Levites gave up their living-places and their property, and came to Judah and Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons had sent them away, not letting them be priests to the Lord;

2 Chronicles 11:15
And he himself made priests for the high places, and for the images of he-goats and oxen which he had made.

2 Chronicles 11:16
And after them, from all the tribes of Israel, all those whose hearts were fixed and true to the Lord, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to make offerings to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 11:17
So they went on increasing the power of the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, strong for three years; and for three years they went in the ways of David and Solomon.

2 Chronicles 23:2
And they went through Judah, getting together the Levites and the heads of families in Israel from all the towns of Judah, and they came to Jerusalem.

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1 Samuel 7:1
So the men of Kiriath-jearim came and took the ark of the Lord to the house of Abinadab in Gibeah, and they made his son Eleazar holy and put the ark in his care.

1 Chronicles 26:26
Shelomoth and his brothers were responsible for all the store of holy things which David the king and the heads of families, the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and the captains of the army, had given to the Lord.

2 Chronicles 30:19
Who, with all his heart, is turned to God the Lord, the God of his fathers, even if he has not been made clean after the rules of the holy place.

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Ezra 8:19
And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty;

Ezra 8:20
And of the Nethinim, to whom David and the captains had given the work of helping the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim, all of them specially named.

Nehemiah 11:20
And the rest of Israel, of the priests, the Levites, were in all the towns of Judah, every one in his heritage.

Nehemiah 12:27
And when the time came for the wall of Jerusalem to be made holy, they sent for the Levites out of all their places to come to Jerusalem, to keep the feast with joy, and with praise and melody, with brass and corded instruments of music.

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2 Kings 23:4
Then the king gave orders to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and to the priests of the second order, and to the keepers of the door, to take out of the house of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal and for the Asherah and for all the stars of heaven; and he had them burned outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and took the dust of them to Beth-el.

2 Chronicles 29:24
And the priests put them to death, and made a sin-offering with their blood on the altar, to take away the sin of all Israel: for the king gave orders that the burned offering and the sin-offering were for all Israel.

2 Chronicles 29:27
And Hezekiah gave the word for the burned offering to be offered on the altar. And when the burned offering was started, then the song of the Lord was started, with the blowing of horns and with all the instruments of David, king of Israel.

Nehemiah 7:64
They made search for their record among the lists of families, but their names were nowhere to be seen, so they were looked on as unclean and no longer priests.

Nehemiah 7:65
And the Tirshatha said that they were not to have the most holy things for their food, till a priest came to give decision by the Urim and Thummim.

Nehemiah 12:30
And the priests and the Levites made themselves clean; and they made the people clean, and the doorways and the wall.

Nehemiah 13:22
And I gave the Levites orders to make themselves clean and come and keep the doors and make the Sabbath holy. Keep this in mind to my credit, O my God, and have mercy on me, for great is your mercy.

Isaiah 49:23
And kings will take care of you, and queens will give you their milk: they will go down on their faces before you, kissing the dust of your feet; and you will be certain that I am the Lord, and that those who put their hope in me will not be shamed.

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Psalms 4:4
Let there be fear in your hearts, and do no sin; have bitter feelings on your bed, but make no sound. (Selah.)

Psalms 119:59
I gave thought to my steps, and my feet were turned into the way of your unchanging word.

Psalms 139:23
O God, let the secrets of my heart be uncovered, and let my wandering thoughts be tested:

Psalms 139:24
See if there is any way of sorrow in me, and be my guide in the eternal way.

Haggai 1:6
Much has been planted, but little got in; you take food, but have not enough; you take drink, but are not full; you are clothed, but no one is warm; and he who gets payment for his work, gets it to put it into a bag full of holes.

Haggai 1:7
This is what the Lord of armies has said: Give thought to your ways.

2 Corinthians 13:5
Make a test of yourselves, if you are in the faith; make certain of yourselves. Or are you not conscious in yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you, if you are truly Christ's?

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Jeremiah 51:3
Against her the bow of the archer is bent, and he puts on his coat of metal: have no mercy on her young men, give all her army up to the curse.

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1 Chronicles 15:18
And with them their brothers of the second order, Zechariah, Bani and Jaaziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and Unni, Eliab and Benaiah and Maaseiah and Mattithiah and Eliphelehu and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom and Jeiel, the door-keepers.

Hosea 10:11
And Ephraim is a trained cow, taking pleasure in crushing the grain; but I have put a yoke on her fair neck; I will put a horseman on the back of Ephraim; Judah will be working the plough, Jacob will be turning up the earth.

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Job 11:13
But if you put your heart right, stretching out your hands to him;

Job 11:14
If you put far away the evil of your hands, and let no wrongdoing have a place in your tent;

Job 11:15
Then truly your face will be lifted up, with no mark of sin, and you will be fixed in your place without fear:

Job 34:31
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Job 34:32
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Lamentations 3:40
Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;

Ezekiel 18:28
Because he had fear and was turned away from all the wrong which he had done, life will certainly be his, death will not be his fate.

Haggai 1:5
For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.

Haggai 1:8
Go up to the hills and get wood and put up the house; and I will take pleasure in it and be honoured, says the Lord.

Haggai 1:9
You were looking for much, and it came to little; and when you got it into your house, I took it away with a breath. Why? says the Lord of armies. Because of my house which is a waste, while every man takes care of the house which is his.

1 Corinthians 11:28
But let no man take of the bread and the cup without testing himself.

1 Corinthians 11:31
But if we were true judges of ourselves, punishment would not come on us.

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Matthew 21:12
And Jesus went into the Temple and sent out all who were trading there, overturning the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those trading in doves.

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Matthew 21:13
And he said to them, It is in the Writings, My house is to be named a house of prayer, but you are making it a hole of thieves.

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Ephesians 5:1
Let it then be your desire to be like God, as well-loved children;

1 Timothy 3:8
Deacons, in the same way, are to be serious in their behaviour, not false in word, not given to taking much wine or greatly desiring the wealth of this world;

1 Timothy 3:9
Keeping the secret of the faith in a heart free from sin.

1 Timothy 3:10
And let these first be put to the test; then let them become Deacons if there is nothing against them.

1 Timothy 3:12
Let Deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their houses well.

1 Timothy 3:13
For those who have done good work as Deacons get for themselves a good position and become free from fear in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

1 Timothy 3:14
I am writing these things to you, though I am hoping to come to you before long;

2 Timothy 2:2
And the things which I have said to you before a number of witnesses, give to those of the faith, so that they may be teachers of others.

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1 Samuel 2:30
For this reason the Lord God of Israel has said, Truly I did say that your family and your father's people would have their place before me for ever: but now the Lord says, Let it not be so; I will give honour to those by whom I am honoured, and those who have no respect for me will be of small value in my eyes.

Acts 14:23
And when they had made selection of some to be rulers in every church, and had given themselves to prayer and kept themselves from food, they put them into the care of the Lord in whom they had faith.

1 Timothy 3:1
This is a true saying, A man desiring the position of a Bishop has a desire for a good work.

1 Timothy 3:2
The Bishop, then, is to be a man of good name, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, serious-minded, having respect for order, opening his house freely to guests, a ready teacher;

1 Timothy 3:3
Not quickly moved to wrath or blows, but gentle; no fighter, no lover of money;

1 Timothy 3:4
Ruling his house well, having his children under control with all serious behaviour;

1 Timothy 3:5
(For if a man has not the art of ruling his house, how will he take care of the church of God?)

1 Timothy 3:6
Not one newly taken into the church, for fear that, through his high opinion of himself, he may come into the same sin as the Evil One.

1 Timothy 3:7
And he is to have a good name among those outside the church, so that nothing may be said against him and he may not be taken by the designs of the Evil One.

1 Timothy 3:11
Women are to be serious in behaviour, saying no evil of others, controlling themselves, true in all things.

1 Timothy 3:15
But if I am long in coming, this will make clear to you what behaviour is right for men in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of what is true.

Titus 1:5
I did not take you with me when I went away from Crete, so that you might do what was necessary to put things in order there, placing men in authority over the churches in every town, as I said to you;

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Revelation 5:9
And their voices are sounding in a new song, saying, It is right for you to take the book and to make it open: for you were put to death and have made an offering to God of your blood for men of every tribe, and language, and people, and nation,

Revelation 5:10
And have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they are ruling on the earth.


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