Wearing Pants

A woman shall not wear men’s clothing, neither shall a man put on women’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

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;

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 →

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man. — read the full passage →

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

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.

But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets; — read the full passage →

Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom. — read the full passage →

haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

For there are three who testify: — read the full passage →

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn’t judge himself in that which he approves.

Then don’t let your good be slandered,

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →

For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: — read the full passage →

He said, “Who are you?” She answered, “I am Ruth your handmaid. Therefore spread your skirt over your handmaid; for you are a near kinsman.”

Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth. — read the full passage →

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, — read the full passage →

“Don’t handle, nor taste, nor touch” — read the full passage →

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ — read the full passage →

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law? — read the full passage →

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified? — read the full passage →

I don’t make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me. — read the full passage →

For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker. — read the full passage →

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ. — read the full passage →

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. — read the full passage →

Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other’s conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience? — read the full passage →

Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; — read the full passage →

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned. — read the full passage →

Then don’t let your good be slandered, — read the full passage →

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.

Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved. — read the full passage →

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek. — read the full passage →

But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, don’t you call unclean.’

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

neither will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ for behold, the Kingdom of God is within you.”

Or how can you tell your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye.

But in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ — read the full passage →

For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for I see not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

“‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

He shall put on the holy linen coat. He shall have the linen breeches on his body, and shall put on the linen sash, and he shall be clothed with the linen turban. They are the holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water, and put them on.

You shall make them linen breeches to cover the flesh of their nakedness; from the waist even to the thighs they shall reach:

I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things. — read the full passage →

For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

The priest shall put on his linen garment, and he shall put on his linen breeches upon his body; and he shall remove the ashes from where the fire has consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.

You shall make them linen breeches to cover the flesh of their nakedness; from the waist even to the thighs they shall reach: — read the full passage →

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

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; — read the full passage →

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for man slayers,

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

‘If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with his fold touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any food, will it become holy?’” The priests answered, “No.”

Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord Yahweh, and you became mine.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

“Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.

The men of David said to him, “Behold, the day of which Yahweh said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.’” Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul’s robe secretly.

As Samuel turned about to go away, Saul grabbed the skirt of his robe, and it tore.

I asked her, and said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bore to him.’ I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands.