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“‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing;

They cried aloud, and cut themselves in their way with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them.

You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.

Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

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

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you? — read the full passage →

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing; — read the full passage →

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

Let all that you do be done in love.

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

Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”

Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance, — read the full passage →

But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. — read the full passage →

But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you, — read the full passage →

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; — read the full passage →

They haven’t cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.

They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.

“This is the covenant that I will make with them: ‘After those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;’” then he says,

For finding fault with them, he said, “Behold, the days come”, says the Lord, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; — read the full passage →

Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision.

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect. — read the full passage →

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ; — read the full passage →

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh. — read the full passage →

Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.

So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable. — read the full passage →

You can’t both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

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

But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin. Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages, but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations; to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen.

It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

Because, knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened. — read the full passage →

but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood. — read the full passage →

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,— — read the full passage →

Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table. — read the full passage →

By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? — read the full passage →

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

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

Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

and you shall know that I am Yahweh: for you have not walked in my statutes, neither have you executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are around you. — read the full passage →

Then he said to me, Have you seen this, son of man? You shall again see yet greater abominations than these. — read the full passage →

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

Don’t weep for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

But Yahweh is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to withstand his indignation. — read the full passage →

They have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. Baldness is on all of their heads. Every beard is 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 sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it. — read the full passage →

A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

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

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out. — read the full passage →

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel. — read the full passage →

Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory. — read the full passage →

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you. — read the full passage →

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.

and the Spirit of Yahweh will come mightily on you, and you shall prophesy with them, and shall be turned into another man.

or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

You shall not do so to Yahweh your God.

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

“‘They shall not shave their heads, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beards, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

You shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I am casting out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.

Neither shall they shave their heads, nor allow their locks to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads.