But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.
Mark
GospelsAnd I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahJesus wept.
John
GospelsAnd he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
Luke
Gospels / LukeHe hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIf the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
Exodus
LawBehold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahMany bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewIf he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
Job
WisdomWhen he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
2 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulHow hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
Job
Wisdom / JobThen said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahMoreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahIn their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the ground: for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWith a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
Genesis
Law / MosesFor thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWe made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon the coast which belongeth to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD'S house.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.