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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Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of all that are wise hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee;
Exodus
Law / MosesSo I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)
Numbers
LawOpen to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:
Psalms
PoetryAnd his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
Numbers
LawThat the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:
Mark
GospelsYour eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal-peor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesZion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear it again? will ye also be his disciples?
John
GospelsAnd she named the child I-chabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThen they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThat was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
John
Gospels / JohnBut that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Acts
HistoryAnd he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.
Luke
GospelsThen he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.
2 Kings
HistoryNow as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and armour;
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah: