These practices indeed have the appearance [that popularly passes as that] of wisdom in self-made religion and mock humility and severe treatment of the body (asceticism), but are of no value against sinful indulgence [because they do not honor God].

Let Christ the King of Israel now descend from the cross, that we may see and believe." And they that were crucified with him, checked him also.

"To what purpose then was the law?" it was added as a check to transgressors, till the offspring should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels with the intervention of a mediator.

but he was rebuked for his own transgression: a mute donkey spoke with a man’s voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.

For we all stumble [in] many [ways]. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he [is] a perfect individual, able to hold in check his whole body also.

Before the boy could reach Jesus, the daemon dashed him down and convulsed him, but Jesus checked the unclean spirit, cured the boy, and handed him back to his father.

But he turned and checked them.

So Jesus checked the daemon and it came out of him, and from that hour the boy was healed.

Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray over them. The disciples checked the people,

The crowd checked them and told them to be quiet, but they shouted all the louder, "O Lord, Son of David, have pity on us!"

But Jesus checked it; "Be quiet," he said, "come out of him."

For disobedience is already secretly at work, but only until he who is now holding it in check is gotten out of the way.

Take heed to yourselves. If your brother sins, check him, and if he repents forgive him.

but God raised him by checking the pangs of death. Death could not hold him.

Now people even brought their infants for him to touch them; when the disciples noticed it they checked them,

The people in front checked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, "Son of David, have pity on me!"

And he woke up, checked the wind, and told the sea, "Peace, be quiet." The wind fell and there was a great calm.

Some Pharisees in the crowd said to him, "Check your disciples, teacher."

Now as Jesus saw that a crowd was rapidly gathering, he checked the unclean spirit. "Deaf and dumb spirit," he said, "leave him, I command you, and never enter him again."

But He many a time checked them, forbidding them to say who He was.

Now people brought children for him to touch them, and the disciples checked them;

A number of the people checked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, "Son of David, have pity on me!"

But the other checked him, saying, "Have you no fear even of God? You are suffering the same punishment as he.

But Jesus checked it, saying, "Be quiet, come out of him." And after throwing him down before them the daemon did come out of him without doing him any harm.

he stood over her and checked the fever, and it left her. Then she instantly got up and ministered to them.

From many people daemons were also driven out, clamouring aloud, "You are God's son!" But he checked them and refused to let them say anything, as they knew he was the Christ.

And John answered him, saying, Teacher, we saw a certain one casting out demons in thy name, who follows not us: and we checked him, for he follows not us.

And Jesus said, Check him not: for there is no one who shall do power in my name, and shall be able quickly to revile me.

For a number of days we made a slow passage and had great difficulty in arriving off Cnidus; then, as the wind checked our progress, we sailed under the lee of Crete off Cape Salmone,

they went and woke him up. "Master, master," they cried, "we are drowning!" So he woke up and checked the wind and the surf; they ceased and there was a calm.

He said to them, "Why are you afraid? How little you trust God!" Then he got up and checked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.

The conclusion, my brethren, is this. Be earnestly ambitious to prophesy, and do not check speaking with tongues;

So, since these things cannot be denied, you ought to be quiet and stay calm and not do anything rash.

As the truth of Christ is in me, my boast [of independence] will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia (southern Greece).

We beseech you, brothers, keep a check upon loafers, encourage the faint-hearted, sustain weak souls, never lose your temper with anyone;

I adjure you to preach the word; keep at it in season and out of season, refuting, checking, and exhorting men; never lose patience with them, and never give up your teaching,

they have gone wrong by leaving the straight road, by following the road of Balaam son of Bosor, who liked the profits of evil-doing ??16 but he got reproved for his malpractice: a dumb ass spoke with human voice and checked the prophet's infatuation.

So when I come, I shall bring up what he is doing, babbling against me with wicked words ??and, not satisfied with words, he refuses to welcome the brothers, checks those who want to welcome them, and excommunicates them from the church.