“Don’t handle, don’t taste, don’t touch”?

Then the Lord said to Paul in a night vision, “Don’t be afraid, but keep on speaking and don’t be silent.

So the eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” Or again, the head can’t say to the feet, “I don’t need you!”

taking vengeance with flaming fire on those who don’t know God and on those who don’t obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

Don’t be too quick to appoint anyone as an elder, and don’t share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.

“But we don’t know how he now sees, and we don’t know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he’s of age. He will speak for himself.”

Jesus sent out these 12 after giving them instructions: “Don’t take the road leading to other nations, and don’t enter any Samaritan town.

Don’t you understand yet? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the 5,000 and how many baskets you collected?

Therefore do whatever they tell you, and observe it. But don’t do what they do, because they don’t practice what they teach.

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You lock up the kingdom of heaven from people. For you don’t go in, and you don’t allow those entering to go in.

You don’t have His word living in you, because you don’t believe the One He sent.

“I don’t have a husband,” she answered.

“You have correctly said, ‘I don’t have a husband,’” Jesus said.

Don’t carry a money-bag, traveling bag, or sandals; don’t greet anyone along the road.

Consider the ravens: They don’t sow or reap; they don’t have a storeroom or a barn; yet God feeds them. Aren’t you worth much more than the birds?

Don’t keep striving for what you should eat and what you should drink, and don’t be anxious.

They told Aaron:

Make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what’s happened to him.

So Pilate said to Him, “You’re not talking to me? Don’t You know that I have the authority to release You and the authority to crucify You?”

So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that He said, ‘I am the King of the Jews.’”

So she ran to Simon Peter and to the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put Him!”

They said to her, “Woman, why are you crying?”

“Because they’ve taken away my Lord,” she told them, “and I don’t know where they’ve put Him.”

“Don’t cling to Me,” Jesus told her, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to My brothers and tell them that I am ascending to My Father and your Father—to My God and your God.”

So the other disciples kept telling him, “We have seen the Lord!”

But he said to them, “If I don’t see the mark of the nails in His hands, put my finger into the mark of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will never believe!”

Then He said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and observe My hands. Reach out your hand and put it into My side. Don’t be an unbeliever, but a believer.”

“Men,” Jesus called to them, “you don’t have any fish, do you?”

“No,” they answered.

“I assure you: When you were young, you would tie your belt and walk wherever you wanted. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will tie you and carry you where you don’t want to go.”

But Paul called out in a loud voice, “Don’t harm yourself, because all of us are here!”

But if these are questions about words, names, and your own law, see to it yourselves. I don’t want to be a judge of such things.”

Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples heard that Peter was there and sent two men to him who begged him, “Don’t delay in coming with us.”

and said, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. And, look! God has graciously given you all those who are sailing with you.’

But Paul went down, fell on him, embraced him, and said, “Don’t be alarmed, for his life is in him!”

Don’t let them persuade you, because there are more than 40 of them arranging to ambush him, men who have bound themselves under a curse not to eat or drink until they kill him. Now they are ready, waiting for a commitment from you.”

So the commander dismissed the young man and instructed him, “Don’t tell anyone that you have informed me about this.”

Accept anyone who is weak in faith, but don’t argue about doubtful issues.

I did, in fact, baptize the household of Stephanas; beyond that, I don’t know if I baptized anyone else.

Don’t you have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you look down on the church of God and embarrass those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I do not praise you for this!

If the foot should say, “Because I’m not a hand, I don’t belong to the body,” in spite of this it still belongs to the body.

And if the ear should say, “Because I’m not an eye, I don’t belong to the body,” in spite of this it still belongs to the body.

Even inanimate things that produce sounds—whether flute or harp—if they don’t make a distinction in the notes, how will what is played on the flute or harp be recognized?

Brothers, don’t be childish in your thinking, but be infants in regard to evil and adult in your thinking.

I don’t want to see you now just in passing, for I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord allows.

Don’t you yourselves know that you are God’s sanctuary and that the Spirit of God lives in you?

It is of little importance to me that I should be evaluated by you or by any human court. In fact, I don’t even evaluate myself.

Therefore don’t judge anything prematurely, before the Lord comes, who will both bring to light what is hidden in darkness and reveal the intentions of the hearts. And then praise will come to each one from God.

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast permeates the whole batch of dough?

Food will not make us acceptable to God. We are not inferior if we don’t eat, and we are not better if we do eat.

Don’t we have the right to eat and drink?

Don’t we have the right to be accompanied by a Christian wife like the other apostles, the Lord’s brothers, and Cephas?

If others have this right to receive benefits from you, don’t we even more?

However, we have not made use of this right; instead we endure everything so that we will not hinder the gospel of Christ.

Don’t become idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to play.

I know a man in Christ who was caught up into the third heaven 14 years ago. Whether he was in the body or out of the body, I don’t know, God knows.

I would like to be with you right now and change my tone of voice, because I don’t know what to do about you.

Tell me, those of you who want to be under the law, don’t you hear the law?

Christ has liberated us to be free. Stand firm then and don’t submit again to a yoke of slavery.

For you were called to be free, brothers; only don’t use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love.

For the flesh desires what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you don’t do what you want.

Don’t be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows he will also reap,

So we must not get tired of doing good, for we will reap at the proper time if we don’t give up.

For even the circumcised don’t keep the law themselves; however, they want you to be circumcised in order to boast about your flesh.

For we don’t want you to be unaware, brothers, of our affliction that took place in Asia: we were completely overwhelmed—beyond our strength—so that we even despaired of life.

Working together with Him, we also appeal to you, “Don’t receive God’s grace in vain.”

I don’t say this to condemn you, for I have already said that you are in our hearts, to live together and to die together.

I don’t want to seem as though I am trying to terrify you with my letters.

For we don’t dare classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. But in measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves to themselves, they lack understanding.

Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows I do!

What I say in this matter of boasting, I don’t speak as the Lord would, but foolishly.

Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

I don’t say this out of need, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am.

Therefore, don’t let anyone judge you in regard to food and drink or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day.

Husbands, love your wives and don’t be bitter toward them.

Slaves, obey your human masters in everything. Don’t work only while being watched, in order to please men, but work wholeheartedly, fearing the Lord.

For the Lord’s message rang out from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place that your faith in God has gone out. Therefore, we don’t need to say anything,

not with lustful desires, like the Gentiles who don’t know God.

Be angry and do not sin. Don’t let the sun go down on your anger,

and don’t give the Devil an opportunity.

And don’t grieve God’s Holy Spirit. You were sealed by Him for the day of redemption.

Don’t participate in the fruitless works of darkness, but instead expose them.

So don’t be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.

And don’t get drunk with wine, which leads to reckless actions, but be filled by the Spirit:

Fathers, don’t stir up anger in your children, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

Don’t work only while being watched, in order to please men, but as slaves of Christ, do God’s will from your heart.

Now if I live on in the flesh, this means fruitful work for me; and I don’t know which one I should choose.

So don’t be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, or of me His prisoner. Instead, share in suffering for the gospel, relying on the power of God.

About brotherly love: You don’t need me to write you because you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

Don’t stifle the Spirit.

Don’t despise prophecies,

Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way. For that day will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction.

Don’t you remember that when I was still with you I told you about this?

It is not that we don’t have the right to support, but we did it to make ourselves an example to you so that you would imitate us.

And if anyone does not obey our instruction in this letter, take note of that person; don’t associate with him, so that he may be ashamed.

Yet don’t treat him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.

They want to be teachers of the law, although they don’t understand what they are saying or what they are insisting on.

Don’t accept an accusation against an elder unless it is supported by two or three witnesses.

Don’t continue drinking only water, but use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.

Jesus answered him, “What I’m doing you don’t understand now, but afterward you will know.”

“You will never wash my feet—ever!” Peter said.

Jesus replied, “If I don’t wash you, you have no part with Me.”

“Lord,” Thomas said, “we don’t know where You’re going. How can we know the way?”

Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I speak to you I do not speak on My own. The Father who lives in Me does His works.

But they will do all these things to you on account of My name, because they don’t know the One who sent Me.

Nevertheless, I am telling you the truth. It is for your benefit that I go away, because if I don’t go away the Counselor will not come to you. If I go, I will send Him to you.

They said, “What is this He is saying, ‘A little while’? We don’t know what He’s talking about!”