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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The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.
Judges
HistoryHe sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.
2 Samuel
HistoryIt shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
Leviticus
LawAnd there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
Genesis
LawAnd I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
Job
Wisdom / JobAll the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
Genesis
LawAnd his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd after him repaired the priests, the men of the plain.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahMy heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Psalms
PoetryThese be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanFor he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesAnd take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.
1 Kings
HistoryThere is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonBehold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain.
Exodus
LawAnd he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the sons of Meshelemiah were, Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother.
Luke
GospelsAnd it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.