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 he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
Mark
Gospels / MarkI said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhen thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesTo declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulTherefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBehold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:
Genesis
LawAnd after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened:
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnCall unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go.
Judges
History / SamuelJehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahDepart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again.
Judges
History / SamuelTherefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulVerily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Matthew
GospelsThis twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.
Genesis
LawPreserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.
Psalms
PoetryThe women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.
Micah
Minor ProphetsEven so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.