'Permitted' in the Bible

but your father has humiliated me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not permitted him to do me any harm.

But we replied, 'We cannot go down there. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go, for we won't be permitted to see the man's face if our youngest brother is not with us.'

by serving other gods and worshiping them -- the sun, moon, or any other heavenly bodies which I have not permitted you to worship.

her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry her after she has become ritually impure, for that is offensive to the Lord. You must not bring guilt on the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

This is why the Lord permitted these nations to remain and did not conquer them immediately; he did not hand them over to Joshua.

These were the nations the Lord permitted to remain so he could use them to test Israel -- he wanted to test all those who had not experienced battle against the Canaanites.

He said, "You may go." He permitted her to leave for two months. She went with her friends and mourned her virginity as she walked through the hills.

And after they had spoken to him day after day without his paying any attention to them, they informed Haman to see whether this attitude on Mordecai's part would be permitted. Furthermore, he had disclosed to them that he was a Jew.

But he went no further than the king's gate, for no one was permitted to enter the king's gate clothed in sackcloth.

Esther replied, "If the king is so inclined, let the Jews who are in Susa be permitted to act tomorrow also according to today's law, and let them hang the ten sons of Haman on the gallows."

I have not even permitted my mouth to sin by asking for his life through a curse --

As for the rest of the beasts, their ruling authority had already been removed, though they were permitted to go on living for a time and a season.

Jesus said to them, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hard hearts, but from the beginning it was not this way.

Am I not permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?'

They said, "Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her."

So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat."

He told them, "You are not permitted to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.

It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, the kind of immorality that is not permitted even among the Gentiles, so that someone is cohabiting with his father's wife.

the women should be silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak. Rather, let them be in submission, as in fact the law says.

was caught up into paradise and heard things too sacred to be put into words, things that a person is not permitted to speak.

The beast was given a mouth speaking proud words and blasphemies, and he was permitted to exercise ruling authority for forty-two months.

The beast was permitted to go to war against the saints and conquer them. He was given ruling authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation,

and, by the signs he was permitted to perform on behalf of the beast, he deceived those who live on the earth. He told those who live on the earth to make an image to the beast who had been wounded by the sword, but still lived.

Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was permitted to scorch people with fire.

She was permitted to be dressed in bright, clean, fine linen" (for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints).