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 Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:
Leviticus
Law / MosesYe have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
Malachi
Minor ProphetsThe fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonPut on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
Deuteronomy
LawTheir visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahIf we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1 John
General EpistlesAnd shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand upon an heap.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had sheepshearers in Baal-hazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king's sons.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod:
Exodus
Law / MosesThe king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.
Genesis
LawAnd now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them,
Judges
History / SamuelWhat man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThat search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed.
Ezra
HistoryThe steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
1 John
General EpistlesSo I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsCome ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be our's.