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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And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.
Exodus
LawBut the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.
Numbers
LawTherefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD liveth.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd she had a garment of divers colours upon her: for with such robes were the king's daughters that were virgins apparelled. Then his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonSo they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahWhoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
Proverbs
WisdomBehold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul that is above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away:
Leviticus
Law / MosesSo again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsOf the sons of Gershom, Shebuel was the chief.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFrom above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.
Genesis
Law / MosesIf he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersCome against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut there shall not an hair of your head perish.
Luke
GospelsAnd Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,
Genesis
LawAnd one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAs a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
Job
WisdomThe Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there.
2 Chronicles
HistoryWhat time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.