Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.
Genesis
Law / MosesNeither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Job
WisdomNow therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
Luke
GospelsI am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
John
GospelsBut he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesFor the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
John
GospelsThey shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the LORD.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahBy him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
Hebrews
General EpistlesThen she said, I desire one small petition of thee; I pray thee, say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I will not say thee nay.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law,
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
Leviticus
Law / MosesBecause thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Acts
History / LukeHath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsForasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his seven counsellors, to enquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of thy God which is in thine hand;
Ezra
History / EzraHaving predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.