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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The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren.
2 Kings
HistoryBut I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesTake a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.
Matthew
GospelsSon of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielInsomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesNow in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThe words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahBut at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods: and before him I told the dream, saying,
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanSo that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.
Ezra
History / EzraSay ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.
Genesis
Law / MosesNow the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings
HistoryFor they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
Deuteronomy
LawO house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way?
Mark
GospelsSo Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Beth-lehem in the beginning of barley harvest.