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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Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThen said he unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meat offering; that they bear them not out into the utter court, to sanctify the people.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsA sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1 John
General EpistlesAnd when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
Exodus
Law / MosesBlessed be the LORD God of Israel for ever and ever. And all the people said, Amen, and praised the LORD.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraHear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThey were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
Job
Wisdom / JobAm I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.
Genesis
Law / MosesBecause they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
Psalms
PoetryAnd to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
Revelation
ApocalypticYet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war which are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.
Numbers
LawAnd the LORD shewed me four carpenters.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.
Joshua
History / JoshuaYe shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.