But when you pray, do not use vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they will be heard for their many words.

When they had taken it up, they used helps, undergirding the ship. And fearing lest they should fall into the quicksand, they lowered the mast, and thus were driven along.

For this reason, God delivered them over to vile passions: for their females exchanged their natural use for that which is against nature:

and in like manner also the males, leaving the natural use of the females, burned in their lusts one toward another, males with males practicing infamous lewdness, and receiving in them selves the due reward of their error.

their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips;

and those who use this world, as not abusing it; for the outward show of this world passes away.

If others partake of this right over you, should not we rather? But we have not used this right: but we endure all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of the Christ.

Since then we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech,

For this reason, I write these things, while absent, that I may not, when present, use severity, according to the authority which the Lord has given me for edification, and not for destruction.

For you have been called to freedom, brethren: only use not your freedom as an occasion for the flesh, but become servants to one another, through love.

that we might no longer be children, tossed and carried about by every wind of teaching, through the artifice of men, through craftiness used by them for the deliberate planning of deceit;

(all of which are for the destruction of those who use them,) according to the commandments and teachings of men;

For neither nattering words did we at any time use, as you know, nor a pretext for covetousness; God is witness:

But we know that the law is good, if any one use it lawfully;

Drink water no longer, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake, and your frequent infirmities.

Let our people also learn to practice good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

But strong food belongs to those who are of mature age, who, by use, have their internal senses exercised to the discerning of both good and evil.

In saying, A new covenant, he has regarded the first as out of use. Now, that which is out of use, and has become old, is ready to disappear.

For some men have stealthily entered in, who were long ago appointed to this condemnation; ungodly men, who pervert the grace of our God, and use it for lascivious purposes, and deny our only Sovereign and Lord, Jesus Christ.