'Appropriate' in the Bible

If you do what is appropriate, you'll be accepted, won't you? But if you don't do what is appropriate, sin is crouching near your doorway, turning toward you. Now as for you, will you take dominion over it?"

"Tell the Israelis that when a person makes a special vow based on the appropriate value of people who belong to the LORD,

The women, children, all the livestock in the city, and all of the spoil and plunder will belong to you. Appropriate the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God will give you.

"A woman must not wear what is appropriate to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman's garment, because anyone who does this is detestable to the LORD your God.

"And Cyrus told him, "Take these utensils, go to Jerusalem, and carry them to the Temple, after the Temple of God has been built in its appropriate place.'

Then I called for a fast there at the Ahava River so we could humble ourselves before our God and seek from him an appropriate way for us and our little ones to live, and how we should guard our personal wealth,

Teach me both knowledge and appropriate discretion, because I believe in your commands.

When their judges are thrown off the cliff, the people will hear my words, for they are appropriate.

A person's anxiety weighs down his heart, but an appropriate word is encouraging.

An appropriate answer brings joy to a person, and a well-timed word is a good thing.

Appropriate speech is inconsistent with the fool; how much more are deceitful statements with a prince!

Condemnation is appropriate for mockers, just as beatings are for the backs of fools.

Train a child in the way appropriate for him, and when he becomes older, he will not turn from it.

The lazy person is wiser in his own opinion than seven men who can give an appropriate response.

He made everything appropriate in its time. He also placed eternity within them yet, no person can fully comprehend what God is doing from beginning to end.

Whoever obeys his commands will not experience harm, and the wise in heart will discern both the appropriate time and response.

Indeed, there is an appropriate time and a response for every circumstance, since human misery weighs heavily upon him.

The Teacher searched to find appropriate expressions, and what is written here is right and truthful.

But the vessel he was working on with the clay was ruined in the potter's hand. So he remade it into another vessel that seemed appropriate to him.

In all the places where you live, the cities will be desolate. The high places will also be desolate so that your altars will be laid waste, bearing the punishment appropriate to them. Your idols will be shattered, your sun pillars will be hewn down, and your works will be obliterated.

I'm going to make them and everything that surrounds my hill a blessing. I'll send down the rain! At the appropriate time there will be a rainstorm of blessing!

The Regent Prince is not to appropriate the nation's inheritance nor take advantage of them by taking their property from them. Instead, he is to provide an inheritance for his sons from his own possessions so that my people will not be separated from their possessions.'"

In the same way, their males also abandoned their natural sexual function toward females and burned with lust toward one another. Males committed indecent acts with males, and received within themselves the appropriate penalty for their perversion.

Welcome her in the Lord as is appropriate for saints, and provide her with anything she may need from you, for she has assisted many people, including me.

But when the appropriate time had come, God sent his Son, born by a woman, born under the Law,

Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is appropriate for those who belong to the Lord.

Women, for their part, should display their beauty by dressing modestly and decently in appropriate clothes, not with elaborate hairstyles or by wearing gold, pearls, or expensive clothes,