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DEACON

—See SERVANT

—ROMANS 16:1.  ¹I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:.
Note:  Some translations have taken the liberty to translate “servant” as “deaconess”.  In and of itself, the word means “servant”. There is no authority for instituting a female deacon.  Consider the word “elder”.  Strictly speaking, it means one who is older.  Strictly speaking, an elder may be unrighteous, unwise, female, criminal, etc.  Biblically speaking, the office of elder means much more and has strict limitations.  In the same way, the office of deacon involves more limitations than merely servant

—PHILIPPIANS 1:1. ¹Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus that are at Philip, with the bishops and deacons:

DEATH

—See ALIEN

—See RESURRECTION

—See SLEEP

—GENESIS 3:19  ¹⁹in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

—EXODUS 28:35 ³⁵And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and the sound thereof shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before Jehovah, and when he cometh out, that he die not.

—EXODUS 30:20-21 ²⁰when they go into the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire unto Jehovah. ²¹So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations.

—EXODUS 28:43 ⁴³And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they go in unto the tent of meeting, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear not iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute for ever unto him and unto his seed after him.

—NUMBERS 23:10  ¹⁰Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number the fourth part of Israel?  Let me die the death of the righteous, And let my last end be like his!

—DEUTERONOMY 34:8  ⁸And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.

—JOB 1:21 ²¹and he said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah hath taken away; blessed be the name of Jehovah.

—2 CHRONICLES 34:27-28 ²⁷because thy heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and hast humbled thyself before me, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith Jehovah. ²⁸Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof. And they brought back word to the king.

—PSALM 116:15  ¹⁵Precious in the sight of Jehovah Is the death of his saints.

—PSALM 103:15-18  ¹⁵As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.  ¹⁶For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; And the place thereof shall know it no more.  ¹⁷But the lovingkindness of Jehovah is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, And his righteousness unto children’s children; ¹⁸To such as keep his covenant, And to those that remember his precepts to do them.

—PSALM 39:4-7 ⁴Jehovah, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is; Let me know how frail I am.  ⁵Behold, thou hast made my days as handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity.  ⁶Surely every man walketh in a vain show; Surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.  ⁷And now, Lord, what wait I for?  My hope is in thee.

—PSALM 55:4-5  ⁴My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me. ⁵Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, And horror hath overwhelmed me.

—PSALM 116:15  ¹⁵Precious in the sight of Jehovah Is the death of his saints.

—PROVERBS 12:28  ²⁸         In the way of  righteousness is life; And in the pathway thereof there is no death.

—PROVERBS 14:32  ³²The wicked is thrust down in his evil-doing; But the righteous hath a refuge in his death.

—PROVERBS 20:29  ²⁹The glory of young men is their strength; And the beauty of old men is the hoary head.

—ECCLESIASTES 2:14-16 ¹⁴The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness: and yet I perceived that one event happeneth to them all. ¹⁵Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then said I in my heart, that this also is vanity. ¹⁶For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance for ever; seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. And how doth the wise man die even as the fool!

—ECCLESIASTES 8:8  ⁸There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in war: neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it.

—ECCLESIASTES 9:5  ⁵For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

—ECCLESIASTES 9:10  ¹⁰Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.

—ECCLESIASTES 12:1-7  ¹Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; ²before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain; ³in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows shall be darkened, ⁴and the doors shall be shut in the street; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low; ⁵yea, they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors shall be in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets: ⁶before the silver cord is loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern, ⁷and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.

—ISAIAH 57:1 ¹The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

—EZEKIEL 18:20  ²⁰The soul that sinneth, it shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

—DANIEL 12:2  ²And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

—MATTHEW 10:28  ²⁸And be not afraid of them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

—MATTHEW 22:31-32  ³¹But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, ³²I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

—MARK 12:25-27  ²⁵For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as angels in heaven. ²⁶But as touching the dead, that they are raised; have ye not read in the book of Moses, in the place concerning the Bush, how God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? ²⁷He is not the God of the dead, but of the living: ye do greatly err.

—LUKE 12:4-5  ⁴And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. ⁵But I will warn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, who after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.

—LUKE 16:23-28  ²³And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. ²⁴And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am in anguish in this flame. ²⁵But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things: but now here he is comforted, and thou art in anguish. ²⁶And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that they that would pass from hence to you may not be able, and that none may cross over from thence to us. ²⁷And he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house; ²⁸for I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.

—LUKE 20:38  ³⁸For He is not the God of the dead but of the living, for all live to Him.”

—LUKE 23:43  ⁴³And he said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in Paradise.

—JOHN 3:13  ¹³And no one hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended out of heaven, even the Son of man, who is in heaven.

—JOHN 11:11-16  ¹¹These things spake he: and after this he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus is fallen asleep; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. ¹²The disciples therefore said unto him, Lord, if he is fallen asleep, he will recover. ¹³Now Jesus had spoken of his death: but they thought that he spake of taking rest in sleep. ¹⁴Then Jesus therefore said unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead. ¹⁵And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him. ¹⁶Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said unto his fellow-disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.

—JOHN 12:24-25 ²⁴Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a grain of wheat fall into the earth and die, it abideth by itself alone; but if it die, it beareth much fruit. ²⁵he that loveth his life loseth it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

—ACTS 7:59-60  ⁵⁹And they stoned Stephen, calling upon the Lord, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. ⁶⁰And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

—ROMANS 6:9-11  ⁹knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death no more hath dominion over him. ¹⁰For the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he liveth, he liveth unto God. ¹¹Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.

—ROMANS 7:24 ²⁴Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?

—ROMANS 8:13  ¹³for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

—ROMANS 14:8 ⁸For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.

—1 CORINTHIANS 15:35-44 ³⁵But some one will say, How are the dead raised? and with what manner of body do they come? ³⁶Thou foolish one, that which thou thyself sowest is not quickened except it die: ³⁷and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be, but a bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other kind; ³⁸but God giveth it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own. ³⁹All flesh is not the Same flesh: but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fishes. ⁴⁰There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. ⁴¹There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory. ⁴²So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: ⁴³it is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: ⁴⁴it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

—2 CORINTHIANS 2:15-16 ¹⁵For we are a sweet savor of Christ unto God, in them that are saved, and in them that perish; ¹⁶to the one a savor from death unto death; to the other a savor from life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

—2 CORINTHIANS 4:16-18  ¹⁶Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. ¹⁷For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory; ¹⁸while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

—2 CORINTHIANS 5:6-8 ⁶Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord ⁷for we walk by faith, not by sight; ⁸we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

—PHILIPPIANS 1:21-24 ²¹For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. ²²But if to live in the flesh,—if this shall bring fruit from my work, then what I shall choose I know not. ²³But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better: ²⁴yet to abide in the flesh is more needful for your sake.

—PHILIPPIANS 3:21 ²¹who shall fashion anew (transform) the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things unto himself.

—COLOSSIANS 1:18  ¹⁸And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

—COLOSSIANS 3:3  ³For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

—1 THESSALONIANS 4:13-17 ¹³But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, who have no hope. ¹⁴For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him. ¹⁵For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we that are alive, that are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them that are fallen asleep. ¹⁶For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first; ¹⁷then we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

—2 TIMOTHY 4:6-8 ⁶For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure is come. ⁷I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith: ⁸henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give to me at that day; and not to me only, but also to all them that have loved his appearing.

—HEBREWS 2:14-15. ¹⁴Since then the children are sharers in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the Same; that through death he might bring to nought him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; ¹⁵and might deliver all them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

—HEBREWS 9:27 ²⁷And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this cometh judgment;

—JAMES 1:12 ¹²Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them that love him.

—JAMES 2:26  ²⁶For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

—JAMES 5:20  ²⁰let him know, that he who converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.

—2 PETER 1:13-14 ¹³Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; ¹⁴as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance:

—REVELATION 3:1  ¹And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and thou art dead.

—REVELATION 6:9-11. ⁹And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of them that had been slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: ¹⁰and they cried with a great voice, saying, How long, O Master, the holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? ¹¹And there was given them to each one a white robe; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little time, until their fellow-servants also and their brethren, who should be killed even as they were, should have fulfilled their course.

—REVELATION 14:13  ¹³And I heard the voice from heaven saying, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth: yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.

—REVELATION 20:12-14 ¹²And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne; and books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works. ¹³And the sea gave up the dead that were in it; and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. ¹⁴And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, even the lake of fire. ¹⁵And if any was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.

DEBATE

–See ARGUING

–MARK 9:14-16 ¹⁴And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great multitude about them, and scribes questioning with them. ¹⁵And straightway all the multitude, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and running to him saluted him. ¹⁶And he asked them, What question ye with them?

DEMONS

—ACTS 19:13  ¹³But certain also of the strolling Jews, exorcists, took upon them to name over them that had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, I adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.

DECEIT

—See DECEPTION

—PSALM 24:4  ⁴He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; Who hath not lifted up his soul unto falsehood, And hath not sworn deceitfully.

—PSALM 32:2  ²   Blessed is the man unto whom Jehovah imputeth not iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no guile.

DECEPTION

—See DECEIT

—See FALSE TEACHERS

—PSALM 52:1-4   ¹Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man?  The lovingkindness of God  endureth continually.  ²Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.  ³Thou lovest evil more than good, And lying rather than to speak righteousness.  ⁴Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

–PROVERBS 10:18  ¹⁸he that hideth hatred is of lying lips; And he that uttereth a slander is a fool.

—ACTS 28:26-27  ²⁶saying, Go thou unto this people, and say, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall in no wise understand; And seeing ye shall see, and shall in no wise perceive: ²⁷For this people’s heart is waxed gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; Lest, haply they should perceive with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And should turn again, And I should heal them.

—1 CORINTHIANS 6:9. ⁹Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,

—2 CORINTHIANS 11:3 ³But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ.

—EPHESIANS 5:6 ⁶Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.

—2 TIMOTHY 3:13 ¹³But evil men and impostors shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

—2 PETER 2:1-3  ¹But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. ²And many shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of. ³And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.

—2 PETER 2:12-15  ¹²But these, as creatures without reason, born mere animals to be taken and destroyed, railing in matters whereof they are ignorant, shall in their destroying surely be destroyed, ¹³suffering wrong as the hire of wrong-doing; men that count it pleasure to revel in the day-time, spots and blemishes, revelling in their deceivings while they feast with you; ¹⁴having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstedfast souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of cursing; ¹⁵forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the hire of wrong-doing;

—JUDE 1:4  ⁴For there are certain men crept in privily, even they who were of old written of beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

—JUDE 1:12  ¹²These are they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

DECISIONS

—See CHOICE

—See CONSEQUENCES

—See GOALS

—See REJECTION

—See RESOLVE

— DEUTERONOMY 30:19 ¹⁰if thou shalt obey the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if thou turn unto Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.

—JOSHUA 24:15 ¹⁵And if it seem evil unto you to serve Jehovah, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.

—1 SAMUEL 12:14-15 ¹⁴If ye will fear Jehovah, and serve him, and hearken unto his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of Jehovah, and both ye and also the king that reigneth over you be followers of Jehovah your God, well: ¹⁵but if ye will not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah, but rebel against the commandment of Jehovah, then will the hand of Jehovah be against you, as it was against your fathers.

—1 KINGS 18:21 ²¹And Elijah came near unto all the people, and said, How long go ye limping between the two sides? if Jehovah be God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.

—2 CHRONICLES 7:14 ¹⁴if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

—Joel 3:14 ¹⁴Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! for the day of Jehovah is near in the valley of decision.

— MATTHEW 6:19-21  "¹⁹Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal: ²⁰but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: ²¹for where thy treasure is, there will thy heart be also.

— MATTHEW 12:30 ³⁰he that is not with me is against me, and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.

— MATTHEW 19:20-22 ²⁰The young man saith unto him, All these things have I observed: what lack I yet? ²¹Jesus said unto him, If thou wouldest be perfect, go, sell that which thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me. ²²But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sorrowful; for he was one that had great possessions.

— MATTHEW 26:14-16 ¹⁴Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, ¹⁵and said, What are ye willing to give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they weighed unto him thirty pieces of silver. ¹⁶And from that time he sought opportunity to deliver him unto them.

— LUKE 15:18 ¹⁸I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight:

—JOHN 18:10-11 ¹⁰Simon Peter therefore having a sword drew it, and struck the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. Now the servant’s name was Malchus. ¹¹Jesus therefore said unto Peter, Put up the sword into the sheath: the cup which the Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?

— ROMANS 6:16 ¹⁶Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves as servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

—ROMANS 11:22-23. ²²Behold then the goodness and severity of God: toward them that fell, severity; but toward thee, God’s goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. ²³And they also, if they continue not in their unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.

— 2 TIMOTHY 4:7-8 ⁷I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith: ⁸henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give to me at that day; and not to me only, but also to all them that have loved his appearing.

—REVELATION 2:10 ¹⁰Fear not the things which thou art about to suffer: behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life.

DECISIVENESS

—See CHOICE

—1 KINGS 18:21  ²¹And Elijah came near unto all the people, and said, How long go ye limping between the two sides? if Jehovah be God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.

—NUMBERS 25:6-8 ⁶And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the tent of meeting. ⁷And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand; ⁸and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

—PSALM 106:30-31  ³⁰Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment; And so the plague was stayed.  ³¹And that was reckoned unto him for righteousness, Unto all generations for evermore.

DEEDS

—MATTHEW 7:12  ¹²All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law and the prophets.

DELIVERANCE

—See PROVIDENCE

—PSALM 18:16-19  ¹⁶he sent from on high, he took me; he drew me out of many waters.  ¹⁷he delivered me from my strong enemy, And from them that hated me; for they were too mighty for me.  ¹⁸They came upon me in the day of my calamity; But Jehovah was my stay.  ¹⁹he brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

— DANIEL 6:20 ²⁰And when he came near unto the den to DANIELiel, he cried with a lamentable voice; the king spake and said to DANIELiel, O DANIELiel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions? ²¹Then said DANIEL unto the king, O king, live for ever.

DEMANDS

–See PRIORITIES

—LUKE 14:26-27 ²⁶If any man cometh unto me, and hateth not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. ²⁷Whosoever doth not bear his own cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

DEMONS

¹²insomuch that unto the sick were carried away from his body handkerchiefs or aprons, and the evil spirits went out. ¹³But certain also of the strolling Jews, exorcists, took upon them to name over them that had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, I adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.

DENOMINATIONALISM

—JOHN 10:16 ¹⁶And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold* : them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice: and they shall become one flock, one shepherd.
*Some misunderstand that this verse justifies denominationalism.  The point is not that there other sheep in other folds but that all the sheep must be in one flock and under one shepherd.

—JOHN 17:21 ²¹that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us: that the world may believe that thou didst send me.

—ACTS 20:30 ³⁰and from among your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

—ROMANS 16:16 ¹⁶Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ salute you.

—1 CORINTHIANS 12:13 ¹³For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all made to drink of one Spirit.

—GALATIANS 1:8 ⁸But though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach unto you any gospel other than that which we preached unto you, let him be anathema.

—EPHESIANS 1:22 ²²and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church, ²³which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all.

—EPHESIANS 4:3-6 ³giving diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. ⁴There is one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling; ⁵one Lord, one faith, one baptism, ⁶one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.

— 1 JOHN 1:6-7 ⁶If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: ⁷but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

— 2 JOHN 1:9 ⁹Whosoever goeth onward and abideth not in the teaching of Christ, hath not God: he that abideth in the teaching, the Same hath both the Father and the Son.

DEPRESSION

—See DESPAIR

—See LONELINESS

—See STRESS

—1 KINGS 19:1-17  ¹And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. ²Then Jezebel send a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to-morrow about this time. ³And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there. ⁴But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper-tree: and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is enough; now, O Jehovah, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers. ⁵And he lay down and slept under a juniper-tree; and, behold, an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat. ⁶And he looked, and, behold, there was at his head a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again. ⁷And the angel of Jehovah came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for thee. ⁸And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.  ⁹And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of Jehovah came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah? ¹⁰And he said, I have been very jealous for Jehovah, the God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword: and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. ¹¹And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before Jehovah. And, behold, Jehovah passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before Jehovah; but Jehovah was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but Jehovah was not in the earthquake: ¹²and after the earthquake a fire; but Jehovah was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice. ¹³And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah? ¹⁴And he said, I have been very jealous for Jehovah, the God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.  ¹⁵And Jehovah said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, thou shalt anoint Hazael to be king over Syria; ¹⁶and Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel; and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room. ¹⁷And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth from the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay; and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.

—–PSALM 43:5 ⁵Why art thou cast down, O my soul?  And why art thou disquieted within me?  Hope thou in God; For I shall yet praise him, Who is the help of my countenance, and my God.

DESPAIR

—See DEPRESSION

—See DETERMINATION

—See HOPE

—PSALM 42:5-6  ⁵Why art thou cast down, O my soul?  And why art thou disquieted within me?  Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him For the help of his countenance.  ⁶O my God, my soul is cast down within me: Therefore do I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, And the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

—PSALM 43:5  ⁵Why art thou cast down, O my soul?  And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; For I shall yet praise him, Who is the help of my countenance, and my God.

—LUKE 17:14-16. ¹⁴And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go show yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed. ¹⁵And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God, ¹⁶And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samuelaritan.

DETERMINATION

—See ATTITUDE

—See ENDURANCE

—See PATIENCE

—See RESOLVE

—See STEADFASTNESS

—PSALM 119:51  ⁵¹The proud have had me greatly in derision: Yet have I not swerved from thy law.

—LUKE 13:24 ²⁴Strive to enter in by the narrow door: for many, I say unto you, shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

— 1 CORINTHIANS 15:58 ⁵⁸Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not vain in the Lord.

— GALATIANS 6:7-10 ⁷Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. ⁸For he that soweth unto his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal life. ⁹And let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. ¹⁰So then, as we have opportunity, let us work that which is good toward all men, and especially toward them that are of the household of the faith.

—PHILIPPIANS 3:13-14 ¹³Brethren, I count not myself yet to have laid hold: but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, ¹⁴I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

— 1 TIMOTHY 4:12 ¹²Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity.

—2 TIMOTHY 4:7-8 ⁷I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith: ⁸henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give to me at that day; and not to me only, but also to all them that have loved his appearing.

—      HEBREWS 3:12-14 ¹²Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God: ¹³but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called To-day; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin: ¹⁴for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end:

—HEBREWS 4:14  ¹⁴Having then a great high priest, who hath passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.

—HEBREWS 10:23 ²³let us hold fast the confession of our hope that it waver not; for he is faithful that promised:

—HEBREWS 12:1-2 ¹Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, ²looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

—REVELATION 2:25  ²⁵Nevertheless that which ye have, hold fast till I come.

—REVELATION 3:11  ¹¹I come quickly: hold fast that which thou hast, that no one take thy crown.

DEVOTION

—See WORSHIP

—ECCLESIASTES 12:13  ¹³This is the end of the matter; all hath been heard: fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man. 

DILIGENCE

—PHILIPPIANS 4:1  ¹Wherefore, my brethren beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my beloved.

DINOSAURS

—PSALM 74:13-14. ¹³Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: Thou brakest the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters.  ¹⁴Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces; Thou gavest him to be food to the people  inhabiting the wilderness.

—JOB 40:15-24. ¹⁵Behold now, behemoth, which I made as well as thee; he eateth grass as an ox.  ¹⁶Lo now, his strength is in his loins, And his force is in the muscles of his belly.  ¹⁷he moveth his tail like a cedar: The sinews of his thighs are knit together.  ¹⁸His bones are as tubes of brass; His limbs are like bars of iron.  ¹⁹he is the chief of the ways of God: he only that made him giveth him his sword.  ²⁰Surely the mountains bring him forth food, Where all the beasts of the field do play.  ²¹he lieth under the lotus-trees, In the covert of the reed, and the fen.  ²²The lotus-trees cover him with their shade; The willows of the brook compass him about.  ²³Behold, if a river overflow, he trembleth not; he is confident, though a Jordan swell even to his mouth.  ²⁴Shall any take him when he is on the watch, Or pierce through his nose with a snare?

—JOB Chapter 41.

DISCERNING

—PROVERBS 15:1  ¹A soft answer turneth away wrath; But a grievous word stirreth up anger.

—ECCLESIASTES 9:17  ¹⁷The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.

—PHILIPPIANS 1:9 ⁹And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;

—HEBREWS 5:12-14 ¹²For when by reason of the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need again that some one teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food. ¹³For every one that partaketh of milk is without experience of the word of righteousness; for he is a babe. ¹⁴But solid food is for fullgrown men, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

DISCIPLES

—JOHN 13:35  ³⁵By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

—JOHN 15:8 ⁸Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and so shall ye be my disciples.

DISCIPLINE

—See ACCUSATIONS

—See TRIALS

— PSALM 119:71  ⁷¹It is good for me that I have been afflicted; That I may learn thy statutes.

— PSALM 119:75  ⁷⁵I know, O Jehovah, that thy judgments are righteous, And that in faithfulness thou hast afflicted me.

–PROVERBS 10:17 ¹⁷he is in the way of life that heedeth correction; But he that forsaketh reproof erreth.

–PROVERBS 15:12 ¹²A scoffer loveth not to be reproved; he will not go unto the wise.

—MATTHEW 18:15-17 ¹⁵And if thy brother sin against thee, go, show him his fault between thee and him alone: if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. ¹⁶But if he hear thee not, take with thee one or two more, that at the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may be established. ¹⁷And if he refuse to hear them, tell it unto the church: and if he refuse to hear the church also, let him be unto thee as the gentile and the publican.

—ROMANS 14:1 ¹But him that is weak in faith receive ye, yet not for decision of scruples.

—ROMANS 16:17-19. ¹⁷Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them that are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which ye learned: and turn away from them. ¹⁸For they that are such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent. ¹⁹For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I rejoice therefore over you: but I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple unto that which is evil.

—1 CORINTHIANS 5:3-5 ³For I verily, being absent in body but present in spirit, have already as though I were present judged him that hath so wrought this thing, ⁴in the name of our Lord Jesus, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus, ⁵to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

—1 CORINTHIANS 5:9-13 ⁹I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators; ¹⁰not at all meaning with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world: ¹¹but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat. ¹²For what have I to do with judging them that are without? Do not ye judge them that are within? ¹³But them that are without God judgeth. Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.

— 1 THESSALONIANS 5:14 ¹⁴And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all.

—2 THESSALONIANS 3:6 ⁶Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which they received of us.

—2 THESSALONIANS 3:11  ¹¹For we hear of some that walk among you disorderly, that work not at all, but are busybodies.

—2 THESSALONIANS 3:14-15 ¹⁴And if any man obeyeth not our word by this epistle, note that man, that ye have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed. ¹⁵And yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

—1 TIMOTHY 4:8 ⁸for bodily exercise is profitable for a little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come.

—2 TIMOTHY 1:7 ⁷For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.

—HEBREWS 12:5-13 ⁵and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him; ⁶For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.  ⁷It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chasteneth not? ⁸But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. ⁹Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? ¹⁰For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. ¹¹All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, even the fruit of righteousness. ¹²Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees; ¹³and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned out of the way, but rather be healed.

—JAMES 1:12 ¹²Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them that love him.

—JAMES 5:19-20 ¹⁹My brethren, if any among you err from the truth, and one convert him; ²⁰let him know, that he who converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.

—2 PETER 1:5-7 ⁵Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in your virtue knowledge; ⁶and in your knowledge self-control; and in your self-control patience; and in your patience godliness; ⁷and in your godliness brotherly kindness; and in your brotherly kindness love. ⁸For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

—2 John 1:10-11 ¹⁰If any one cometh unto you, and bringeth not this teaching, receive him not into your house, and give him no greeting: ¹¹for he that giveth him greeting partaketh in his evil works.

DISCONTENT

—See CONTENTMENT

—PHILIPPIANS 4:11 ¹¹Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therein to be content.

DISCORD

–See CONFLICT

–See GRUMBLING

—PHILIPPIANS 4:2 ²I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to be of the Same mind in the Lord.

DISCOURAGEMENT

—See ENCOURAGEMENT

—See FALLING AWAY

—See WEAKNESS

—MARK 9:23 ²³And Jesus said unto him, If thou canst! All things are possible to him that believeth.

—LUKE 18:1-8 ¹And he spake a parable unto them to the end that they ought always to pray, and not to faint; ²saying, There was in a city a judge, who feared not God, and regarded not man: ³and there was a widow in that city; and she came oft unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary. ⁴And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; ⁵yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest she wear me out by her continual coming. ⁶And the Lord said, Hear what the unrighteous judge saith. ⁷And shall not God avenge his elect, that cry to him day and night, and yet he is longsuffering over them? ⁸I say unto you, that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?

—2 CORINTHIANS 3:16 ¹⁶But whensoever it shall turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

—1 THESSALONIANS 5:11 ¹¹Wherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do.

—HEBREWS 12:12-13   ¹²Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees; ¹³and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned out of the way, but rather be healed.

 
DISCRETION

—See WISDOM

—PSALM 39:1-3 1I said, I will take heed to my ways, That I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, While the wicked is before me.  2I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; And my sorrow was stirred.  3My heart was hot within me; While I was musing the fire burned:  Then spake I with my tongue:

—PROVERBS 10:19-21 ¹⁹In the multitude of words there wanteth not transgression; But he that refraineth his lips doeth wisely.  ²⁰The tongue of the righteous is as choice silver: The heart of the wicked is little worth.  ²¹The lips of the righteous feed many; But the foolish die for lack of understanding.

—PROVERBS 11:22  ²²As a ring of gold in a swine’s snout, So is a fair woman that is without discretion.

—PROVERBS 15:1  ¹A soft answer turneth away wrath; But a grievous word stirreth up anger.

—PROVERBS 15:28 ²⁸The heart of the righteous studieth to answer; But the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.

—PROVERBS 25:20. ²⁰As one that taketh off a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon soda, So is he that singeth songs to a heavy heart.

—ECCLESIASTES 9:18  ¹⁸Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good.

—ECCLESIASTES 10:1-4  ¹Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to send forth an evil odor; so doth a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor. ²A wise man’s heart is at his right hand; but a fool’s heart at his left. ³Yea also, when the fool walketh by the way, his understanding faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool. ⁴If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for gentleness allayeth great offences.

—ISAIAH 50:4  ⁴The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of them that are taught (NKJV: of the learned), that I may know how to sustain with words (NKJV: a word in season) him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as they that are taught (NKJV: hear as the learned).

DISOBEDIENCE

—ISAIAH 53:6 ⁶All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

—HEBREWS 4:11  ¹¹Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man fall after the same example of disobedience.

DIVORCE

—See MARRIAGE

—If the unfaithful spouse repents and asks forgiveness?  See REPENTANCE and FORGIVENSS.

—MALACHI 2:16 ¹⁶For I hate putting away, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith Jehovah of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

—MATTHEW 5:31-32 ³¹It was said also, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: ³²but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.

—MATTHEW 19:9 ⁹And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.

DISOBEDIENCE

—DEUTERONOMY 21:18-21 ¹⁸If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them; ¹⁹then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; ²⁰and they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. ²¹And all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

—JUDGES 21:25  ²⁵In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

—ISAIAH 1:5 ⁵Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

—HEBREWS 4:11  ¹¹Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man fall after the same example of disobedience.

DISTRACTIONS

—See FOCUS

—See HINDRANCES

—See WORLDLINESS

—HEBREWS 12:1-2  ¹Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, ²looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

DISTRESS

–See STRESS

–PSALM 43:5 5Why art thou cast down, O my soul?  And why art thou disquieted within me?  Hope thou in God; For I shall yet praise him, Who is the help of my countenance, and my God.

DIVERSITY

—See BIGOTRY

—See PREJUDICE

—GALATIANS 3:28 ²⁸There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.

—REVELATION 5:9 9And they sing a new song, saying, Worthy art thou to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou was slain, and didst purchase unto God with thy blood men of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,

DOCTRINE

—See WORD OF GOD

—MATTHEW 15:3. ³And he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?

—1 CORINTHIANS 2:12-13 ¹²But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God; that we might know the things that were freely given to us of God. ¹³Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth; combining spiritual things with spiritual words.

—1 CORINTHIANS 4:17  ¹⁷For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who shall put you in remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church.

—COLOSSIANS 4:16  ¹⁶And when this epistle hath been read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye also read the epistle from Laodicea.

—2 TIMOTHY 1:13. ¹³Hold the pattern of sound words which thou hast heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

—HEBREWS 8:5. ⁵who serve that which is a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses is warned of God when he is about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern that was showed thee in the mount.

DOUBT

—See BELIEF

—See FAITH

—MATTHEW 14:31 ³¹And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and took hold of him, and saith unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?

—MATTHEW 28:17 ¹⁷And when they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted.

—MARK 16:14 ¹⁴And afterward he was manifested unto the eleven themselves as they sat at meat; and he upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them that had seen him after he was risen.

—JOHN 20:25 ²⁵The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.

—JAMES 1:6-8  ⁶But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed. ⁷For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord; ⁸a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways.

DRUNKENESS

—See INFLUENCE

—PROVERBS 20:1. ¹Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise.

—PROVERBS 23:21  ²¹For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty;  And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.

—PROVERBS 23:29-35. ²⁹Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions?  Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause?  Who hath redness of eyes?  ³⁰They that tarry long at the wine; They that go to seek out mixed wine.  ³¹Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, When it sparkleth in the cup, When it goeth down smoothly:  ³²At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder.  ³³Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things.  ³⁴Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, Or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.  ³⁵They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

—PROVERBS 31:4-7 4It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; Nor for princes to say, Where is strong drink?  5Lest they drink, and forget the law, And pervert the justice due to any that is afflicted.  6Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, And wine unto the bitter in soul: 7Let him drink, and forget his poverty, And remember his misery no more.

—ECCLESIASTES 2:3 ³I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their life.

—1 CORINTHIANS 6:10  ¹⁰nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

—1 CORINTHIANS 11:21 ²¹for in your eating each one taketh before other his own supper; and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

—EPHESIANS 5:18  ¹⁸And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;

—1 THESSALONIANS 5:7 ⁷For they that sleep sleep in the night: and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.

—1 PETER 4:3  ³For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries:

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EDIFICATION

—1 CORINTHIANS 14:12  ¹²So also ye, since ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may abound unto the edifying of the church.

EFFECTIVENESS

—JOHN 15:5 ⁵I am the vine, ye are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the Same beareth much fruit: for apart from me ye can do nothing.

ELDERS

—see SHEPHERDS

—JEREMIAH 23:1-4 ¹Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith Jehovah. ²Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, against the shepherds that feed my people: Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them; behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith Jehovah. ³And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and multiply. ⁴And I will set up shepherds over them, who shall feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be lacking, saith Jehovah.

—EZEKIEL, chapter 34

—ACTS 14:23  ²³And when they had appointed for them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

—ACTS 20:28-30 ²⁸Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit hath made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he purchased with his own blood. ²⁹I know that after my departing grievous wolves shall enter in among you, not sparing the flock; ³⁰and from among your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

—EPHESIANS 4:11  ¹¹And he gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors*  and teachers;
Note:  Pastor is another word for elder

—PHILIPPIANS 1:1. ¹Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus that are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

— 1 THESSALONIANS 5:12-13 ¹²But we beseech you, brethren, to know them that labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; ¹³and to esteem them exceeding highly in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

—1 TIMOTHY 3:1-7 ¹Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. ²The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach; ³no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money; ⁴one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; ⁵but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God? ⁶not a novice, lest being puffed up he fall into the condemnation of the devil. ⁷Moreover he must have good testimony from them that are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

—1 TIMOTHY 5:17-20 ¹⁷Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching. ¹⁸For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. And, The laborer is worthy of his hire. ¹⁹Against an elder receive not an accusation, except at the mouth of two or three witnesses. ²⁰Them that sin reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

—TITUS 1:5-9 ⁵For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that were wanting, and appoint elders in every city, as I gave thee charge; ⁶if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly. ⁷For the bishop must be blameless, as God’s steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; ⁸but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled; ⁹holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict the gainsayers.

—HEBREWS 13:17¹⁷Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit to them: for they watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for this were unprofitable for you.

—JAMES 5:14. ¹⁴Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:

—1 PETER 5:1-4 ¹The elders among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: ²Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to the will of God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; ³neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves ensamples to the flock. ⁴And when the chief Shepherd shall be manifested, ye shall receive the crown of glory that fadeth not away.

—JUDE 1:12  ¹²These are they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

ELOQUENCE

—1 CORINTHIANS 1:17 ¹⁷For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made void.

—1 CORINTHIANS 2:1 ¹And I, brethren, when I came unto you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

EMOTION

—See HEART

—1 KINGS 11:4 ⁴For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as was the heart of David his father.

—PROVERBS 14:12 12There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; But the end thereof are the ways of death.

— PROVERBS 28:26 26he that trusteth in his own heart is a fool; But whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.

— LUKE 6:45 ⁴⁵The good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth that which is evil: for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

— ACTS 2:37 ³⁷Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and the rest of the apostles, Brethren, what shall we do?

EMPATHY

—see SYMPATHY

—HEBREWS 13:3 ³Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; them that are illtreated, as being yourselves also in the body.

EMPTY WORDS

—See PHILOSOPHY

—EPHESIANS 5:6 ⁶Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.

ENCOURAGEMENT

—See COOPERATION

—See DETERMINATION

—See DISCOURAGEMENT

—See WEAKNESS

—PSALM 119:74 74They that fear thee shall see me and be glad, Because I have hoped in thy word.

—ECCLESIASTES 4:9-12  ⁹Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. ¹⁰For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, and hath not another to lift him up. ¹¹Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one be warm alone? ¹²And if a man prevail against him that is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

—JONAH 3:1 ¹And the word of Jehovah came unto Jonah the second time, saying,

—GALATIANS 6:1-2 ¹Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of Gentleness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted. ²Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

—COLOSSIANS 2:2 ²that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, even Christ,

— 1 THESSALONIANS 5:11 ¹¹Wherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do.

— 1 THESSALONIANS 5:14 ¹⁴And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all.

—HEBREWS 12:12  ¹²Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees;

—HEBREWS  3:12-13 ³For consider him that hath endured such gainsaying of sinners against himself, that ye wax not weary, fainting in your souls.

—HEBREWS 10:24-25 ²⁴and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works; ²⁵not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day drawing nigh.

—HEBREWS 12:3 ³For consider him that hath endured such gainsaying of sinners against himself, that ye wax not weary, fainting in your souls.

ENDURANCE

—See STEADFASTNESS

—HEBREWS 12:1 ¹Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

—2 TIMOTHY 2:12 ¹²if we endure, we shall also reign with him: if we shall deny him, he also will deny us:

ENVY

—See JEALOUSY

─See SELFISHNESS

–PSALM 112:10 10The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: The desire of the wicked shall perish.

--MARK 15:10  ¹⁰For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up.

─PHILIPPIANS 1:15  ¹⁵Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:

ENTHUSIASM

—See COMMITMENT

—See WORLDLINESS

—See STEADFASTNESS

—See ZEALOUSNESS

—PSALM 118:24 24This is the day which Jehovah hath made; We will rejoice and be glad in it.

—ECCLESIASTES 9:10 ¹⁰Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.

—2 CORINTHIANS 9:2 ²for I know your readiness, of which I glory on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia hath been prepared for a year past; and your zeal hath stirred up very many of them.

ERROR

—See FALSE TEACHERS

—See WORLDLINESS

─PSALM 119:104  Through thy precepts I get understanding: Therefore I hate every false way.

—PSALM 119:128  Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; And I hate every false way.

—AMOS 5:10  ¹⁰They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

—AMOS 7:10-17  ¹⁰Then Amaziah the priest of Beth-el sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words. ¹¹For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land. ¹²Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thou away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there: ¹³but prophesy not again any more at Beth-el; for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a royal house.  ¹⁴Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was a herdsman, and a dresser of sycomore-trees: ¹⁵and Jehovah took me from following the flock, and Jehovah said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel. ¹⁶Now therefore hear thou the word of Jehovah: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac; ¹⁷therefore thus saith Jehovah: Thy wife shall be