Topic
Being Modest
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In like manner, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobriety; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment;
Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own; — read the full passage →
A woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment; for whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.
In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives; — read the full passage →
To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vainglory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am Jehovah.
Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; And let thy saints shout for joy.
Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the scriptures daily, whether these things were so.
Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to write unto you of our common salvation, I was constrained to write unto you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints.
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them. — read the full passage →
Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.
Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; — read the full passage →
For ye are all sons of God, through faith, in Christ Jesus.
For many deceivers are gone forth into the world, even they that confess not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist. — read the full passage →
In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved:
and he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more accurately.
But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that were wanting, and appoint elders in every city, as I gave thee charge; — read the full passage →
For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that were wanting, and appoint elders in every city, as I gave thee charge;
I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men; — read the full passage →
I commend unto you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the church that is at Cenchreæ:
Nowthere wasa certain man in Cæsarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, — read the full passage →
And as they spake unto the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them, — read the full passage →
and killed the Prince of life; whom God raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
And when the day of Pentecost was now come, they were all together in one place. — read the full passage →
Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover. — read the full passage →
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
And it came to pass soon afterwards, that he went about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good tidings of the kingdom of God, and with him the twelve, — read the full passage →
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation.
And Jesus came to them and spake unto them, saying, All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth. — read the full passage →
but I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
For I, Jehovah, change not; therefore ye, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; But the end thereof are the ways of death.
And, behold, there met him a woman With the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.
And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →
but these are written, that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye may have life in his name.
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