"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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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;

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.

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,

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:

are you angry? have a care you don't sin. "let not the sun go down upon your wrath,"

don't you therefore be concern'd with them.

and you fathers don't exasperate your children: but instruct them in the discipline and institution of the Lord.

I don't imagine, my brethren, that I am arriv'd at the goal; but this I do, unmindful of what is pass'd, I stretch towards that which is in view,

fathers, don't treat your children with severity, lest they be discourag'd.

maintain an intire affection for them, upon account of their office, and don't form any brigues against them.

Don't allow any one to return evil for evil, but strive to do all the good you can to one another, and to all the world.

don't abuse the gifts of the spirit.

don't despise the prophetic gift.

Don't think that I am come to abolish the law or the prophets: I am not come to abolish, but to complete them.

but I say unto you, don't return evil for evil; on the contrary, if any one strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other likewise.

don't therefore imitate them: for your father knows what you want, before you ask him.

When ye fast, don't put on a dismal air, as the hypocrites do, who look dejected, that men may take notice of their fasting: I assure you, they have their reward.

Jesus hearing that, said to them, they that are in health don't want a physician, but they that are sick.

Jesus made these twelve his missionaries, and gave them these instructions, don't go any where among the Gentiles, nor enter into any city of the Samaritans.

don't be led into any mistake, because the previous rebellion does not yet appear, nor the man of sin throw off the disguise, that offspring of perdition:

don't you remember, I told you this, when I was with you?

and if any one should disregard what we have prescrib'd, signify it to us by letter, and don't converse with him, that he may be put to shame.

however, don't treat him as an enemy, but reprove him as a brother.

for I don't allow a woman to be a teacher, nor to dictate to her husband; but let her be silent.

don't give occasion to any to despise your youth: but be a pattern to believers in your discourse, in your behaviour, by your charity, faith and chastity.

don't neglect the gift you have, which was given you with the ministerial charge, when you receiv'd imposition of hands from the presbytery.

Don't treat a senior with harsh reproof, but exhort him as a father, and the young men, as brethren:

as for young widows, don't admit them: for being impatient of religious restraint, they will be marry'd:

don't receive any accusation against a pastor, but upon the deposition of two or three witnesses.

Don't be hasty to ordain any man: and be not accessory to the faults of others: preserve your own integrity.

The vices of some men are so notorious, they prevent any inquisition: others don't discover themselves till they have been ordain'd.

don't imagine that I am come to bring peace upon the earth: I came not to bring peace, but war.

and his sisters, don't they live just by us? how came he then by all this?

but Jesus immediately call'd to them, take courage, said he, it is I, don't be afraid.

don't you think then that he deserves a much greater punishment, who hath despised the son of God, and counted the blood of the covenant wherewith be was sanctified, to have been justly shed, thereby offering an indignity to the spirit of grace?

don't therefore quit that resolution you have, which will be attended with so great a reward.

but don't forget to be beneficent to the community; for such sacrifice is acceptable to God.

Don't be deluded, my brethren;

Don't delusively content your selves with being of the audience, but put what you hear in practice:

have not you made an arbitrary distinction, don't your judgments flow from a vicious principle?

don't you see his actions and his faith conspir'd, and that his faith had its perfect effect in his conduct?

My brethren, don't affect many of you to be doctors, considering, that those of us who are such, shall be tried with the greater severity.

but if envy and contention imbitter your minds, don't think your false pretences can stand against the truth: