'Permitted' in the Bible
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).