The Stomach

no longer be drinking water, but a little wine be using, because of thy stomach and of thine often infirmities;

this first knowing, that no prophecy of the Writing doth come of private exposition,

and he saith to them, `So also ye are without understanding! Do ye not perceive that nothing from without entering into the man is able to defile him? — read the full passage →

and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,

concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility,

Beloved, I call upon <FI>you<Fi> , as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,

Followers of me become ye, as I also <FI>am<Fi> of Christ. — read the full passage →

the meats <FI>are<Fi> for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body <FI>is<Fi> not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

and I went away unto the messenger, saying to him, `Give me the little scroll;' and he saith to me, `Take, and eat it up, and it shall make thy belly bitter, but in thy mouth it shall be sweet--as honey.'

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

As many, therefore, as <FI>are<Fi> perfect--let us think this, and if <FI>in<Fi> anything ye think otherwise, this also shall God reveal to you, — read the full passage →

And Jesus having known their reasonings, answering, said unto them, `What reason ye in your hearts?

for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom, — read the full passage →

Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you? — read the full passage →

for he shall be great before the Lord, and wine and strong drink he may not drink, and of the Holy Spirit he shall be full, even from his mother's womb;

and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, the reign of God shall inherit.

as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation; — read the full passage →

sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;