then said Pilate to him, won't you give me an answer? don't you know that it is in my power to crucify you, or to release you?

"don't eat this, don't taste that, nor touch it:"

then Jesus went with him, and when he was advanced near the house, the centurion sent some of his friends to him, saying, "Lord, don't give yourself the trouble of coming, I don't deserve you should honour my house with your presence.

and he within should give this answer, don't trouble me now: the door is made fast, and my family are all in bed: I can't get up to supply you.

if you don't believe when I tell you what is plain, how should you believe, if I tell you of things more sublime?

is it not a common saying, "t'other four months, and then comes harvest?" lift up your eyes now, I say, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.

don't imagine that I shall accuse you to my father: even Moses himself in whom you confide, will be your accuser.

but if you don't believe what he has writ, how should you believe what I say?

therefore I said to you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if you don't believe me to be what I am, ye shall die in your sins.

which of you can convict me of sin? if then I say the truth, why don't you believe me?

then said they to him, where is he? I don't know, said he.

whether he be so or not, said he, I don't know: one thing I very well know, that once I was blind, and now I see.

we know that God commission'd Moses: as for this fellow, we don't know who sent him.

but one of them named Caiaphas, being the high priest at that time, said to them, ye don't know what you are about.

the Pharisees therefore said among themselves, don't you perceive we lose ground? you see what a world of followers attend him.

Jesus answered him, you don't at present comprehend what I am about: but hereafter you shall.

Peter said to him, Lord, why can't I follow you now? I will lay down my life for your sake.

Jesus said to him, have I been with you so long, and don't you know me yet? Philip, he that hath seen me, hath seen the father; why then do you say, shew us the father?

don't you believe that I am in the father, and the father in me? the words that I speak unto you, I speak indeed, tho' not from my self; but as to the works, the father, who dwells in me, he is the agent.

I bid you farewell! I give you my last farewell; but I do not give it out of common formality: don't be concern'd for me, or apprehensive for your selves.

what is truth? said Pilate. and upon saying this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, I don't find he is guilty of any crime.

thereupon the chief priests of the Jews went to Pilate, saying, don't write, "The king of the Jews;" but that he said, I am king of the Jews.

and the voice spake to him again the second time, don't call that common, which God calls clean.

but the voice from heaven address'd it self to me again, and said, don't call that impure, which God has purified.

but since it is about disputable matters, about names, and your own law, you may decide that among yourselves: for I won't take cognizance of such affairs."

so Paul went down, and stooping over him, he embraced him, and said, don't trouble your selves; for his life is in him.

what then is to be done? they will necessarily be all assembled, for they can't but hear, you are come.

but don't believe them: for above forty of them lie in ambush, having bound themselves by oath not to eat or drink till they have kill'd him: they are already prepar'd, and only wait your answer.

then the tribune dismiss'd the youth with this charge, don't tell any one, that you have given me this information.

king Agrippa, don't you give credit to the prophetic writings? I know you do.

upon this Paul said to the centurion and his men, "except the crew stay aboard, you can't be safe:"

you therefore who instruct others don't you instruct yourself?

don't you know that when we were all baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, we were plunged into a state figurative of his death.

The spirit likewise softens our afflictions: for being at a loss to apply for the most proper relief; the spirit it self affects us with those pious ejaculations, which we can't well express.

God hath not discarded his people whom he formerly approv'd. don't you know what the scripture says of Elias? how he complain'd to God against Israel,

don't triumph over the branches: or if you do, remember the root is not dependent upon you, but you upon the root.

nay, even the Jews, if they don't continue still incredulous, shall be grafted in: since divine power can graft them in again.

Don't let our religion then be expos'd to reproach.

true, I baptized the family of Stephanas: but I don't know that I baptized any other besides.

Don't you know, that you are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwells in you?

we are fatigu'd by our manual toil: when reviled, we pray: when persecuted, we don't repine:

This I don't write to give you any confusion, but by way of remonstrance, to you who are my dear children.

Your levity is very indecent: don't you know that a little leaven infects the whole mass?

don't you know that these are to judge the world? if the world is to be judg'd by you, are not you qualify'd to decide your petty causes?

don't you know that we shall be judges of angels? much more then of the affairs of life?

beside, you are absolutely in the wrong in going to law with one another at all: why don't you rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer loss?

Don't you know, that your bodies are parts of Christ's mystical body? now, how can that which is Christ's, be made the property of a very creature?

it cannot be. why, don't you perceive, that where there is such an attachment, they are but as one person? for the scripture says, "they two shall be as one."

don't desert one another, unless you mutually consent to retire for a time, to the solemnity of prayer; and then come together again, lest satan make an attempt upon your continency.

were you called being a slave? be not perplex'd about it; but if you can obtain your freedom, don't refuse it.

have you been redeemed from slavery? then, don't turn slaves.

are you contracted to a wife? seek not to be disengag'd. are you disengag'd from your wife? don't look out for another;

and they that possess this world, as those that can't make an ill use of it. for the scene of this world is continually shifting. I would have you free from anxiety.

meat does not recommend us to God: if we eat, we are not the better men; if we don't eat, we are not the worse.

don't you know, that they who prepare the sacrifices, do eat of the sacrifice in the temple? and they who wait at the altar, have their portion from the altar?

but if any man say to you, this is offered in sacrifice to an idol, don't eat, for his sake that mentioned it, and for conscience sake.

when I say conscience, I don't mean your own, but that of the other: for why should I expose my liberty to the censure of another man's conscience?

therefore if I don't know the meaning of the language, with respect to him that speaks, I shall be a barbarian; and he that speaks shall be a barbarian to me.

wherefore, brethren, zealously exercise the gift of prophecy, and don't prohibit those that speak in an unknown language.

besides, my engaging with those monsters, as I may say, at Ephesus, what advantage was it to me? if the dead don't rise, "let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die."

and whatever you sow, you don't sow that body which shall afterwards appear, but only the bare grain of wheat, for instance, or of some other grain.

this I say, my brethren, because the body, as it is at present, cannot possess the kingdom of God; and what is corruptible, can't enjoy incorruptibility.

I don't mean to prescribe to you, but that the zeal of others may show you are as sincerely well-affected.

for tho' I am involv'd with the world, I don't sustain the war with their poor arts:

I don't assume to myself the credit of other men's labours in another province, but hope, that when your faith is increased, the bounds now prescribed will be enlarged by you yet farther;

but tho' I don't know whether it was in the body, or out of the body, which God only knows,

I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother: did Titus make a gain of you? didn't we follow the same principles, and take the same measures?

But tell me, you that are so willing to be under the law, why don't you consider the law?

but while he was revolving this in his mind, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, the off-spring of David, don't make any difficulty of taking Mary for thy wife: for her pregnancy is from the holy Spirit.

When they were gone, an angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, take the infant and his mother, flee into Egypt, and don't stir thence till I order you, for Herod will endeavour to have the child destroy'd. Joseph therefore arose,

and don't pretend to say within your selves, We have Abraham for our father: for I tell you, that God is able out of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham: