Thematic Bible
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This John wore a garment of camel's hair, and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
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At that time the disciples of John came and asked him, "Why are we and the Pharisees always fasting, while your disciples are not?"
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For these precepts, although they have a show of wisdom with their self-imposed devotions and fastings and bodily austerities, are of no real value against the indulgence of the carnal appetites.
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For this is God's will, even your sanctification; that you should abstain from sexual vice.
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Asceticism » Extreme application of » Rebuked by paul
If you died with Christ to the world's rudimentary notions, why, as if you still lived in the world, do you submit yourselves to dogmatisms found on teachings and doctrines of men??21 such as "Do not handle this," "You must not taste that," "Do not touch this"??22 all things which are intended to perish in the using? For these precepts, although they have a show of wisdom with their self-imposed devotions and fastings and bodily austerities, are of no real value against the indulgence of the carnal appetites.
Now the Spirit distinctly declares that in latter days there will be some who will fall away from the faith, by listening to spirits of error, and to teachings of demons speaking lies in hypocrisy. These are men whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron, who discourage marriage, and enjoin abstinence from foods which God created to be received with thankfulness, by those who believe, and have a clear knowledge of the truth. read more.
For everything that God has created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if only it is received with thankfulness.
For everything that God has created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if only it is received with thankfulness.
For physical training is of some small service, but godliness is of service in everything; since it carries with it a promise of life, both here and hereafter.
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Humility » Saints should » Beware of false
Let no man at his will defraud you of your prize through his false humility and worship of the angels, taking his stand on the visions he has seen, and vainly puffed up by his material mind;
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For these precepts, although they have a show of wisdom with their self-imposed devotions and fastings and bodily austerities, are of no real value against the indulgence of the carnal appetites.
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Ordinance » Insufficiency of, for salvation
If you died with Christ to the world's rudimentary notions, why, as if you still lived in the world, do you submit yourselves to dogmatisms found on teachings and doctrines of men??21 such as "Do not handle this," "You must not taste that," "Do not touch this"??22 all things which are intended to perish in the using? For these precepts, although they have a show of wisdom with their self-imposed devotions and fastings and bodily austerities, are of no real value against the indulgence of the carnal appetites.
because in Christ neither circumcision has any value, nor uncircumcision, but faith which works through love.
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For in Jesus Christ neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
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In his own body he abolished the cause of our enmity, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, in order to make the two into one new man in himself, so making peace.
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blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that stood against us and was hostile to us, and took it out of our way, nailing it to his cross.
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Now even the first covenant had its ordinances of public worship, and its sanctuary, a material one.
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The Holy Spirit teaching by this that the way into the Holiest has not yet been disclosed while the first tent is still standing. This is a parable, for the present time, according to which gifts and sacrifices are offered that are not able, as far as conscience is concerned, to perfect the worshiper; since they consist only in meats and drinks and various ablutions, carnal ordinances, imposed until the time of reformation.