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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For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAlso I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
Mark
Gospels / MarkBut be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the vale for abundance.
2 Chronicles
HistoryDelight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the thing accursed.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBehold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:
Genesis
Law / MosesThis persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.
Genesis
LawWe see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
Psalms
PoetryThen the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
Judges
HistoryNow it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail:
Ezra
HistoryWherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.
Matthew
GospelsAnd whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein.
Leviticus
LawFor the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother's brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,
Judges
History / SamuelNevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahMoreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king's son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?