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Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? — read the full passage →

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;

And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.

Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe. — read the full passage →

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? — read the full passage →

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; — read the full passage →

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

Let all your things be done with charity.

It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: — read the full passage →

But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. — read the full passage →

And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; — read the full passage →

That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; — read the full passage →

And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.

And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.

This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: — read the full passage →

Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.

That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. — read the full passage →

And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: — read the full passage →

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. — read the full passage →

Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: — read the full passage →

Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils.

But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.

For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. — read the full passage →

And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.

It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. — read the full passage →

But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood. — read the full passage →

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; — read the full passage →

Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat. — read the full passage →

Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? — read the full passage →

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: — read the full passage →

For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. — read the full passage →

Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

And ye shall know that I am the Lord: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you. — read the full passage →

Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these. — read the full passage →

Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears. — read the full passage →

Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

But the Lord is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation. — read the full passage →

He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.

A wise man’s heart is at his right hand; but a fool’s heart at his left. — read the full passage →

A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished. — read the full passage →

A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.

A man’s gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men. — read the full passage →

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits.

The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out. — read the full passage →

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise. — read the full passage →

Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety. — read the full passage →

Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. — read the full passage →

Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;

They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

And the Spirit of the Lord will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man.

Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

Ye shall not do so unto the Lord your God.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brethren.

Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.