1. A
2. B
3. C

A

ABORTION
See BIRTH

GENESIS 9:6  Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: For in the image of God made he man.

GENESIS 25:22-23  And the children struggled together within her. And she said, If it be so, wherefore do I live? And she went to inquire of Jehovah.  And Jehovah said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, And two peoples shall be separated from thy bowels. And the one people shall be stronger than the other people. And the elder shall serve the younger.

PSALM 22:9-10  But thou art he that took me out of the womb; Thou didst make me trust when I was upon my mother's breasts.  I was cast upon thee from the womb; Thou art my God since my mother bare me.

PSALM 139:13-16  For thou didst form my inward parts: Thou didst cover me in my mother's womb.  I will give thanks unto thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Wonderful are thy works; And that my soul knoweth right well.  My frame was not hidden from thee, When I was made in secret, And curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.  Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance; And in thy book they were all written, Even the days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was none of them.

PROVERBS 6:16-17  There are six things which Jehovah hateth; Yea, seven which are an abomination unto him: Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood;

ISAIAH 49:1  Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye peoples, from far: Jehovah hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name:

JEREMIAH 1:5  Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee, and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee; I have appointed thee a prophet unto the nations.

LUKE 1:41-44  And it came to pass, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit; and she lifted up her voice with a loud cry, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come unto me?  For behold, when the voice of thy salutation came into mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.

ACTS 17:25  neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

GALATIANS 1:15  to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles; straightway I conferred not with flesh and blood:

ACCOMPLISHMENT

ROMANS 8:37  Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

ACCOUNTABILITY
See JUDGMENT OF GOD
See SIN

ISAIAH 59:2  but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, so that he will not hear.

ACTS 2:37  Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and the rest of the apostles, Brethren, what shall we do?

ROMANS 6:16  Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves as servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

ROMANS 14:11-12  For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, to me every knee shall bow, And every tongue shall confess to God.  So then each one of us shall give account of himself to God.

2 CORINTHIANS 5:10  For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

HEBREWS 13:17  Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit to them: for they watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for this were unprofitable for you.

ACCUSATIONS
See DISCIPLINE

MATTHEW 18:15-17  And if thy brother sin against thee, go, show him his fault between thee and him alone: if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he hear thee not, take with thee one or two more, that at the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may be established. And if he refuse to hear them, tell it unto the church: and if he refuse to hear the church also, let him be unto thee as the Gentile and the publican.

1 TIMOTHY 5:19  Against an elder receive not an accusation, except at the mouth of two or three witnesses.

ADMONISH

ROMANS 15:14  And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

ADULTERY
See FAMILY
See MARRIAGE

ADVERSITY

1 SAMUEL 25:3  Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail; and the woman was of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.

JUDGES 11:2  And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and when his wife's sons grew up, they drove out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou art the son of another woman.

ADVICE

PROVERBS 12:15  The way of a fool is right in his own eyes; But he that is wise hearkeneth unto counsel.

AGING

LEVITICUS 19:32  Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.

JOB 12:12  With aged men is wisdom, And in length of days understanding.

PSALM 71:9  Cast me not off in the time of old age; Forsake me not when my strength faileth.

PSALM 71:18  Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not, Until I have declared thy strength unto the next generation, Thy might to every one that is to come.

PROVERBS 16:31  The hoary head is a crown of glory; It shall be found in the way of righteousness.

ECCLESIASTES 12:1-8  Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain; in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows shall be darkened, and the doors shall be shut in the street; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low; yea, they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors shall be in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets: before the silver cord is loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern, and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.

TITUS 2:2-8  that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience: that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed: the younger men likewise exhort to be sober-minded: in all things showing thyself an ensample of good works; in thy doctrine showing uncorruptness, gravity, sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of us.

ALERTNESS

MARK 13:33-37  Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. It is as when a man, sojourning in another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, to each one his work, commanded also the porter to watch.  Watch therefore: for ye know not when the lord of the house cometh, whether at even, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or in the morning; lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.  And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:1-7  But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that aught be written unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.  When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.  But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief: for ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness; so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.  For they that sleep sleep in the night: and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.

ALIEN
See WORLDLINESS

JOHN 17:16  They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.

2 CORINTHIANS 5:6-8  Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord (for we walk by faith, not by sight); we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

HEBREWS 11:9-16  By faith he became a sojourner in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: for he looked for the city which hath the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.  By faith even Sarah herself received power to conceive seed when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised: wherefore also there sprang of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the sand, which is by the sea-shore, innumerable.  These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.  For they that say such things make it manifest that they are seeking after a country of their own.  And if indeed they had been mindful of that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return.  But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city.

1 PETER 1:1  Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect who are sojourners of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

1 PETER 2:11  Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lust, which war against the soul;

ALOOFNESS

HEBREWS 10:22  let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience: and having our body washed with pure water,

ANGEL OF THE LORD

JOSHUA 5:13-15  And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?   And he said, Nay; but as prince of the host of Jehovah am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?  And the prince of Jehovah's host said unto Joshua, Put off thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.

ANGELS

MATTHEW 18:10  See that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven.

ACTS 12:15  And they said unto her, Thou art mad. But she confidently affirmed that it was even so. And they said, It is his angel.

2 PETER 2:4  For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

JUDE 1:6  And angels that kept not their own principality, but left their proper habitation, he hath kept in everlasting bonds under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

ANGER
See PATIENCE

PROVERBS 15:18  A wrathful man stirreth up contention; But he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.

PROVERBS 29:11  A fool uttereth all his anger; But a wise man keepeth it back and stilleth it.

PROVERBS 29:22  An angry man stirreth up strife, And a wrathful man aboundeth in transgression.

MATTHEW 5:22  but I say unto you, that every one who is angry with his brother shall be in danger of the judgment; and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council; and whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of the hell of fire.

1 CORINTHIANS 13:5  doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;

EPHESIANS 4:26  Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

HEBREWS 12:15  looking carefully lest there be any man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby the many be defiled;

JAMES 1:19  Ye know this, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

ANOINTED, ANOINTING
See SANCTIFICATION

NUMBERS 12:8  with him will I speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark speeches; and the form of Jehovah shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses[PA1] ?

NUMBERS 16:28-30  And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that Jehovah hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind. If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then Jehovah hath not sent me.  But if Jehovah make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then ye shall understand that these men have despised Jehovah.

NUMBERS 17:5  And it shall come to pass, that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you.

1 SAMUEL 24:5-7  And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart smote him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt.  And he said unto his men, Jehovah forbid that I should do this thing unto my lord[PA2] , Jehovah's anointed, to put forth my hand against him, seeing he is Jehovah's anointed.  So David checked his men with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul. And Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.

1 SAMUEL 26:9-11  And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not; for who can put forth his hand against Jehovah's anointed, and be guiltless?  And David said, As Jehovah liveth, Jehovah will smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.  Jehovah forbid that I should put forth my hand against Jehovah's anointed: but now take, I pray thee, the spear that is at his head, and the cruse of water, and let us go.

2 SAMUEL 1:14-16  And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to put forth thy hand to destroy Jehovah's anointed?  And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him, so that he died.  And David said unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain Jehovah's anointed.

PSALM 105:8-15  He hath remembered his covenant for ever, The word which he commanded to a thousand generations, The covenant which he made with Abraham, And his oath unto Isaac, And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting covenant, Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance; When they were but a few men in number, Yea, very few, and sojourners in it.  And they went about from nation to nation, From one kingdom to another people.  He suffered no man to do them wrong; Yea, he reproved kings for their sakes, Saying, Touch not mine anointed ones, And do my prophets no harm.

MARK 6:13  And they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them.

1 TIMOTHY 5:22  Lay hands hastily on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.

JAMES 5:14  Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:

1 JOHN 2:20  And ye have an anointing from the Holy One, and ye know all the things.

 ANTICHRIST

—See FALSE TEACHERS

—1 JOHN 2:18-23 ¹⁸Little children, it is the last hour: and as ye heard that antichrist cometh, even now have there arisen many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last hour. ¹⁹They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they all are not of us. ²⁰And ye have an anointing from the Holy One, and ye know all the things. ²¹I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and because no lie is of the truth. ²²Who is the liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, even he that denieth the Father and the Son. ²³Whosoever denieth the Son, the Same hath not the Father: he that confesseth the Son hath the Father also.

—JUDE 1:4  ⁴For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

—JUDE 1:15  ¹⁵to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”

ANTICIPATION

—See HOPE

—TITUS 2:13  ¹³looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

ANXIETY

—MATTHEW 6:25 ²⁵Therefore I say unto you, be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment?

—JOHN 14:1 ¹Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

APATHY

—See INDIFFERENCE

—ISAIAH 1:10-17 ¹⁰Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. ¹¹What unto me is the multitude of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah: I have had enough of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats. ¹²When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to trample my courts? ¹³Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; new moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies,—I cannot away with iniquity and the solemn meeting. ¹⁴Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are a trouble unto me; I am weary of bearing them. ¹⁵And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; ¹⁷learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

—HEBREWS 5:11 ¹¹Of whom we have many things to say, and hard of interpretation, seeing ye are become dull of hearing.

—HEBREWS 12:5  ⁵and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him;

APOSTASY

—1 KINGS 11:3 ³And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

—2 CHRONICLES 34:18-21. ¹⁸And Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read therein before the king. ¹⁹And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes. ²⁰And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of MICAH, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying, ²¹Go ye, inquire of Jehovah for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is the wrath of Jehovah that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of Jehovah, to do according unto all that is written in this book.

—JUDGES 2:10-13  ¹⁰And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, that knew not Jehovah, nor yet the work which he had wrought for Israel.  ¹¹And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and served the Baalim; ¹²and they forsook Jehovah, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples that were round about them, and bowed themselves down unto them: and they provoked Jehovah to anger. ¹³And they forsook Jehovah, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.

—LUKE 8:13 ¹³And those on the rock are they who, when they have heard, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

—ACTS 20:29-31. ²⁹I know that after my departing grievous wolves shall enter in among you, not sparing the flock; ³⁰and from among your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them. ³¹Wherefore watch ye, remembering that by the space of three years I ceased not to admonish every one night and day with tears.

—ACTS 20:28 ²⁸Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit hath made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he purchased with his own blood.

—GALATIANS 1:8-9 ⁸But though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach unto you any gospel other than that which we preached unto you, let him be anathema. ⁹As we have said before, so say I now again, if any man preacheth unto you any gospel other than that which ye received, let him be anathema.

—GALATIANS 6:1 ¹Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of Gentleness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

—2 THESSALONIANS 2:3-5. ³let no man beguile you in any wise: for it will not be, except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, ⁴he that opposeth and exalteth himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God. ⁵Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

—1 TIMOTHY 4:1-3 ¹But the Spirit saith expressly, that in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, ²through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron; ³forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth.

—HEBREWS 6:4-6 ⁴For as touching those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, ⁵and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come, ⁶and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

—HEBREWS 2:1-3 ¹Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things that were heard, lest haply we drift away from them. ²For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward; ³how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation? which having at the first been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard;

—JAMES 5:19-20 ¹⁹My brethren, if any among you err from the truth, and one convert him; ²⁰let him know, that he who converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.

— 2 PETER 2:21-22 ²¹For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered unto them. ²²It has happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog turning to his own vomit again, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.

—2 John 1:9-11 ⁹Whosoever goeth onward and abideth not in the teaching of Christ, hath not God: he that abideth in the teaching, the Same hath both the Father and the Son. ¹⁰If any one cometh unto you, and bringeth not this teaching, receive him not into your house, and give him no greeting: ¹¹for he that giveth him greeting partaketh in his evil works.

APOSTLE

—ACTS 1:2  ²until the day in which he was received up, after that he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit unto the apostles whom he had chosen:

—ACTS 1:21-26  ²¹Of the men therefore that have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and went out among us, ²²beginning from the baptism of John, unto the day that he was received up from us, of these must one become a witness with us of his resurrection. ²³And they put forward two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias. ²⁴And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, who knowest the hearts of all men, show of these two the one whom thou hast chosen, ²⁵to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place. ²⁶And they gave lots for them; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

—2 CORINTHIANS 12:12  ¹²Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, by signs and wonders and mighty works.

—EPHESIANS 4:11  ¹¹And he gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

 APPROVAL

—PHILIPPIANS 1:9-10 ⁹And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment; ¹⁰so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and void of offence unto the day of Christ; ¹¹being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

 ARGUING

–See DEBATE

–MARK 9:14-16 ¹⁴And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great multitude about them, and scribes questioning with them. ¹⁵And straightway all the multitude, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and running to him saluted him. ¹⁶And he asked them, What question ye with them?

ARROGANCE

—See HAUGHTINESS

—See PRIDE

—See SANCTIMONIOUS

—DEUTERONOMY 9:4-6 ⁴Speak not thou in thy heart, after that Jehovah thy God hath thrust them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness Jehovah hath brought me in to possess this land; whereas for the wickedness of these nations Jehovah doth drive them out from before thee. ⁵Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thy heart, dost thou go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Jehovah thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may establish the word which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.  ⁶Know therefore, that Jehovah thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.

—PROVERBS 8:12-13  ¹²I wisdom have made prudence my dwelling, And find out knowledge and discretion.  ¹³The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the perverse mouth, do I hate.

—PROVERBS 8:15  ¹⁵By me kings reign, And rulers decree justice.

—PROVERBS 14:31 ³¹he that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker; But he that hath mercy on the needy honoreth him.

—PROVERBS 16:18  ¹⁸Pride goeth before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.

— PSALM 49:12  ¹²But man being in honor abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.

—PSALM 31:18  ¹⁸Let the lying lips be dumb, Which speak against the righteous insolently, With pride and contempt.

— PROVERBS 8:13  ¹³The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the perverse mouth, do I hate.

—PROVERBS 18:23  ²³The poor useth entreaties; But the rich answereth roughly.

—DANIEL 4:30 ³⁰The king spake and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?

—ROMANS 12:3 ³For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think as to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to each man a measure of faith.

—ROMANS 12:16 ¹⁶Be of the Same mind one toward another. Set not your mind on high things, but condescend to things that are lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits.

—1 CORINTHIANS 1:31 ³¹that, according as it is written, he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

—1 CORINTHIANS 4:6-7 ⁶Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not to go beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other. ⁷For who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? but if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it?

—1 CORINTHIANS 4:18-19 ¹⁸Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you. ¹⁹But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the word of them that are puffed up, but the power.

—1 CORINTHIANS 5:1-2 ¹It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one of you hath his father’s wife. ²And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you.

—1 CORINTHIANS 13:4 ⁴Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

—1 CORINTHIANS 15:10 ¹⁰But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not found vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

—GALATIANS 6:1-7 ¹Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of Gentleness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted. ²Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. ³For if a man thinketh himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. ⁴But let each man prove his own work, and then shall he have his glorying in regard of himself alone, and not of his neighbor. ⁵For each man shall bear his own burden. ⁶But let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things. ⁷Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

—1 TIMOTHY 3:6 ⁶not a novice, lest being puffed up he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

—2 PETER 2:12  ¹²But these, as creatures without reason, born mere animals to be taken and destroyed, railing in matters whereof they are ignorant, shall in their destroying surely be destroyed,

—2 PETER 2:18  ¹⁸For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;

—JAMES 4:16  ¹⁶But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

—JUDE 1:10  ¹⁰But these rail at whatsoever things they know not: and what they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, in these things are they destroyed.

ASCETICISM

SEE SELF-DENIAL

—COLOSSIANS 2:20-23. ²⁰If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances, ²¹Handle not, nor taste, nor touch ²²all which things are to perish with the using, after the precepts and doctrines of men? ²³Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will-worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but are not of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

ASHAMED

—ROMANS 1:16 ¹⁶For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

—2 TIMOTHY 1:8 ⁸Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but suffer hardship with the gospel according to the power of God;

ASSEMBLY

—See CHURCH

—See FAITHFULNESS

—See FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK

—See LORD’S DAY

—See WORLDLINESS

—See WORSHIP

—PSALM 42:1-2  ¹As the hart panteth after the water brooks, So panteth my soul after thee, O God.  ²My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: When shall I come and appear before God?

—PSALM 122:1  ¹I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go unto the house of Jehovah.

—MATTHEW 5:6 ⁶Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

—MATTHEW 6:33  ³³But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

—MATTHEW 18:20  ²⁰For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”

—JOHN 4:24  ²⁴God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth.

—ACTS 2:42  ⁴²And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread and the prayers.

—ACTS 4:31  ³¹And when they had prayed, the place was shaken wherein they were gathered together; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spake the word of God with boldness.

—ACTS 11:26  ²⁶and when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that even for a whole year they were gathered together with the church, and taught much people, and that the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.

—ACTS 15:25  ²⁵it seemed good unto us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

—ACTS 20:7  ⁷And upon the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul discoursed with them, intending to depart on the morrow; and prolonged his speech until midnight.

—1 CORINTHIANS 5:4-5  ⁴in the name of our Lord Jesus, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus, ⁵to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. ⁶Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

—1 CORINTHIANS 10:16-17  ¹⁶The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a communion of the body of Christ? ¹⁷seeing that we, who are many, are one bread, one body: for we are all partake of the one bread.

—1 CORINTHIANS 11:17  ¹⁷But in giving you this charge, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better but for the worse.

—1 CORINTHIANS Chapters 12 – 14

—1 CORINTHIANS 16:2 ²Upon the first day of the week let each one of you lay by him in store, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come.

—2 CORINTHIANS 9:7  ⁷Let each man do according as he hath purposed in his heart: not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

—COLOSSIANS 3:16  ¹⁶Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts unto God.

—1 TIMOTHY 2:8-12  ⁸I desire therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputing. ⁹In like manner, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobriety; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment; ¹⁰but (which becometh women professing godliness) through good works. ¹¹Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. ¹²But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness.

—EPHESIANS 5:19  ¹⁹speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;

—HEBREWS 10:25 ²⁵not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day drawing nigh.

—REVELATION 1:10  ¹⁰I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet

ASSOCIATION

—See FELLOWSHIP

—See HOPE

—See SANCTIMONIOUSNESS

—LUKE 5:31 ³¹And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are in health have no need of a physician; but they that are sick.

—1 TIMOTHY 5:22  ²²Lay hands hastily on no man, neither be partaker of other men’s sins: keep thyself pure.

ASSURANCE OF SALVATION

—See FELLOWSHIP

—See HOPE

—1 JOHN 3:2  ²Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.

—1 JOHN 5:13  ¹³These things have I written unto you, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, even unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God.

ATONEMENT

—EXODUS 30:16 ¹⁶And thou shalt take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls.

—1 SAMUEL 3:14. ¹⁴And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be expiated with sacrifice nor offering for ever.

ATTITUDE

—See COMMITMENT

—See DETERMINATION

—See EXCUSES

—See HEART

—See RESOLVE

—See TRANSFORMATION

—See WORLDLINESS

—PSALM 51:12  Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; And uphold me with a willing spirit.

—ECCLESIASTES 8:1  ¹Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.

—MATTHEW 22:37-39 ³⁷And he said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. ³⁸This is the great and first commandment. ³⁹And a second like unto it is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

—ROMANS 8:5-8 ⁵For they that are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. ⁶For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace: ⁷because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be: ⁸and they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

—ROMANS 12:2 ²And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, and ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

—2 CORINTHIANS 10:3-5. ³For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh ⁴for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds, ⁵casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

—PHILIPPIANS 2:14 ¹⁴Do all things without murmurings and questionings:

—PHILIPPIANS 4:4 ⁴Rejoice in the Lord always: again I will say, Rejoice.

—PHILIPPIANS 4:8 ⁸Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

—COLOSSIANS 3:2 ²Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth.

—1 THESSALONIANS 2:13 ¹³And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message, even the word of God, ye accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe.

—JAMES 4:3 ³Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.

—1 PETER 4:1  ¹Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind; for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;

AUTHORITY of Christ

—DANIEL 4:35  ³⁵And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

—MATTHEW 28:18 ¹⁸And Jesus came to them and spake unto them, saying, All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth..

—MARK 2:10 ¹⁰But that ye may know that the Son of man hath authority on earth to forgive sins he saith to the sick of the palsy,

—MARK 9:7 ⁷And there came a cloud overshadowing them: and there came a voice out of the cloud, This is my beloved Son: hear ye him.

—JOHN 14:6 ⁶Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.

—LUKE 12:5  ⁵But I will warn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, who after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.

—ACTS 1:7  ⁷And he said unto them, It is not for you to know times or seasons, which the Father hath set within His own authority.

—ACTS 13:10 ¹⁰and said, O full of all guile and all villany, thou son of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

—ROMANS 6:17 ¹⁷But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered;

—ROMANS 9:21  ²¹Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?

—EPHESIANS 1:20-23  ²⁰which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places, ²¹far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: ²²and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church, ²³which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

—EPHESIANS 2:20  ²⁰being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner stone;

—COLOSSIANS 2:9-15  ⁹For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; ¹⁰and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power. ¹¹In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, ¹²buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. ¹³And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, ¹⁴having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. ¹⁵Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.

—COLOSSIANS 3:17 ¹⁷And whatsoever ye do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

—HEBREWS 1:1-2 ¹God, having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets by divers portions and in divers manners, ²hath at the end of these days spoken unto us in his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds;

—JUDE 1:25  ²⁵to the only God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and power, before all time, and now, and for evermore. Amen.

AUTHORITY of Government

—See GOVERNMENT

1 Timothy 2:1-2.  ¹I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men; ²for kings and all that are in high place; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and gravity.

AUTHORITY of scripture

—See INSPIRATION

—DEUTERONOMY 4:2 ²Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish from it, that ye may keep the commandments of Jehovah your God which I command you.

—JUDGES 21:25 ²⁵In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

—PSALM 119:89. ⁸⁹For ever, O Jehovah, Thy word is settled in heaven.

—PROVERBS 30:5-6 5Every word of God is tried: he is a shield unto them that take refuge in him.  6 Add thou not unto his words, Lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

—MATTHEW 7:21. ²¹Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven.

—MATTHEW 17:5. ⁵While he was yet speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold, a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.

—MARK 1:27 ²⁷And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What is this? a new teaching with authority he commandeth even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.

—LUKE 10:16  ¹⁶He that heareth you heareth me; and he that rejecteth you rejecteth me; and he that rejecteth me rejecteth him that sent me.

—JOHN 17:17  ¹⁷Sanctify them in the truth: thy word is truth.

—ACTS 3:22-23. ²²Moses indeed said, A prophet shall the Lord God raise up unto you from among your brethren, like unto me. To him shall ye hearken in all things whatsoever he shall speak unto you. ²³And it shall be, that every soul that shall not hearken to that prophet, shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.

—ROMANS 1:28-30 ²⁸And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; ²⁹being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, Malachaiiciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, Malachaiignity; whisperers, ³⁰backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

—ROMANS 13:1-7  ¹Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God. ²Therefore he that resisteth the power, withstandeth the ordinance of God: and they that withstand shall receive to themselves judgment. ³For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. And wouldest thou have no fear of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise from the same: ⁴for he is a minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is a minister of God, an avenger for wrath to him that doeth evil. ⁵Wherefore ye must needs be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake. ⁶For this cause ye pay tribute also; for they are ministers of God’s service, attending continually upon this very thing. ⁷Render to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.

— 1 CORINTHIANS 4:6 ⁶Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not to go beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.

— 1 CORINTHIANS 14:37 ³⁷If any man thinketh himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him take knowledge of the things which I write unto you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.

—GALATIANS 1:6-9. ⁶I marvel that ye are so quickly removing from him that called you in the grace of Christ unto a different gospel; ⁷which is not another gospel only there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. ⁸But though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach unto you any gospel other than that which we preached unto you, let him be anathema. ⁹As we have said before, so say I now again, if any man preacheth unto you any gospel other than that which ye received, let him be anathema.

—GALATIANS 1:16-20  ⁶to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles; straightway I conferred not with flesh and blood: ¹⁷neither went I up to Jerusalem to them that were apostles before me: but I went away into Arabia; and again I returned unto Damascus.  ¹⁸Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas, and tarried with him fifteen days. ¹⁹But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord’s brother. ²⁰Now touching the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.

— COLOSSIANS 3:17 ¹⁷And whatsoever ye do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

—1 THESSALONIANS 2:13 ¹³And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message, even the word of God, ye accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe.

—1 TIMOTHY 4:1-16  ¹But the Spirit saith expressly, that in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, ²through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron; ³forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth. ⁴For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it be received with thanksgiving: ⁵for it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.  ⁶If thou put the brethren in mind of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which thou hast followed until now: ⁷but refuse profane and old wives’ fables. And exercise thyself unto godliness: ⁸for bodily exercise is profitable for a little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come. ⁹Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation. ¹⁰For to this end we labor and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of them that believe. ¹¹These things command and teach. ¹²Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity. ¹³Till I come, give heed to reading, to exhortation, to teaching. ¹⁴Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. ¹⁵Be diligent in these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy progress may be manifest unto all. ¹⁶Take heed to thyself, and to thy teaching. Continue in these things; for in doing this thou shalt save both thyself and them that hear thee.

—2 TIMOTHY 1:13-14  ¹³Hold the pattern of sound words which thou hast heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁴That good thing which was committed unto thee guard through the Holy Spirit which dwelleth in us.

—2 TIMOTHY 2:2  ²And the things which thou hast heard from me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

—2 TIMOTHY 2:14-17  ¹⁴Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear. ¹⁵Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth. ¹⁶But shun profane babblings: for they will proceed further in ungodliness, ¹⁷and their word will eat as doth a gangrene: or whom is Hymenaeus an Philetus;

—2 TIMOTHY 3:14-4:4  ¹⁴But abide thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them. ¹⁵And that from a babe thou hast known the sacred writings which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness. ¹⁷That the man of God may be complete, furnished completely unto every good work.  ¹I charge thee in the sight of God, and of Christ Jesus, who shall judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: ²preach the word; be urgent in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. ³For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts; ⁴and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside unto fables.

—2 PETER 1:20-21  ²⁰knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of private interpretation. ²¹For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

—2 PETER 3:1-2  ¹This is now, beloved, the second epistle that I write unto you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by putting you in remembrance; ²that ye should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandments of the Lord and Saviour through your apostles:

—REVELATION 22:18-19. ¹⁸I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man shall add unto them, God shall add unto him the plagues which are written in this book: ¹⁹and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.

AUTONOMY

—ACTS 11:29-30  ²⁹And the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren that dwelt in Judea: ³⁰which also they did, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

—ACTS 14:23  ²³And when they had appointed for them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

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BACK-SLIDING

—see FALLING AWAY

—See NEGLECT

—2 SAMUEL 11:2-4 ²And it came to pass at eventide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. ³And David send and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? ⁴And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her for she was purified from her uncleanness; and she returned unto her house.

—LUKE 9:62 ⁶²But Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

—GALATIANS 4:9 ⁹but now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again?

—HEBREWS 2:1-3 ¹Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things that were heard, lest haply we drift away from them. ²For if the word spoken through angels proved stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward; ³how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation? which having at the first been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard;

—HEBREWS 6:4-8  ⁴For as touching those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, ⁵and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come, ⁶and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. ⁷For the land which hath drunk the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receiveth blessing from God: ⁸but if it beareth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and nigh unto a curse; whose end is to be burned.

—2 PETER 2:22 ²²It has happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog turning to his own vomit again, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.

BAPTISM

—See COVENANT

—See INFANT BAPTISM

—See PURITY

—See TRANSFORMATION

—MATTHEW 3:11 ¹¹I indeed baptize you in water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire:

—MATTHEW 3:15 ¹⁵But Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffereth him.

—MATTHEW 28:19 ¹⁹Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit:.

—MARK 1:4-11 ⁴John came, who baptized in the wilderness and preached the baptism of repentance unto remission of sins. ⁵And there went out unto him all the country of Judaea, and all they of Jerusalem; And they were baptized of him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. ⁶And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and had a leathern girdle about his loins, and did eat locusts and wild honey. ⁷And he preached, saying, There cometh after me he that is mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose. ⁸I baptized you in water; But he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit.  ⁹And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in the Jordan. ¹⁰And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens rent asunder, and the Spirit as a dove descending upon him: ¹¹and a voice came out of the heavens, Thou art my beloved Son, in thee I am well pleased.

—MARK 10:38-39 ³⁸But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink the cup that I drink? or to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? ³⁹And they said unto him, We are able. And Jesus said unto them, The cup that I drink ye shall drink; and with the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be baptized:

—MARK 16:16 ¹⁶He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned.

–LUKE 3:3, 7, 16 ³And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins; . . . ⁷Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? . . . ¹⁶JOHN answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:

—LUKE 7:29-30 ²⁹And all the people when they heard, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of JOHN. ³⁰But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected for themselves the counsel of God, being not baptized of him.

—JOHN 3:3-15  You must be born again…

—JOHN 4:1-2 ¹When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John ²although Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,

—JOHN 13:8 

—ACTS 1:5 ⁵for John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days hence.

— ACTS 2:38-41 ³⁸And Peter said unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. ³⁹For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call unto him. ⁴⁰And with many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, Save yourselves from this crooked generation. ⁴¹They then that received his word were baptized: and there were added unto them in that day about three thousand souls.

—ACTS 8:12-13 ¹²But when they believed Phillip preaching good tidings concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. ¹³And Simon also himself believed: and being baptized, he continued with Phillip; and beholding signs and great miracles wrought, he was amazed.

—ACTS 8:16 ¹⁶for as yet it was fallen upon none of them: only they had been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.

—ACTS 8:36-39  ³⁶And as they went on the way, they came unto a certain water; and the eunuch saith, Behold, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized? ³⁷And Philip said, If thou believest with all thy heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. ³⁸And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him. ³⁹And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip; and the eunuch saw him no more, for he went on his way rejoicing.

—ACTS 10:47-48 ⁴⁷Can any man forbid the water, that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit as well as we? ⁴⁸And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.

— ACTS 11:16 ¹⁶And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit.

—ACTS 16:33 ³³And he took them the Same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, immediately.

—ACTS 18:8  ⁸And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.

—ACTS 19:2-5  ²and he said unto them, Did ye receive the Holy Spirit when ye believed? And they said unto him, Nay, we did not so much as hear whether the Holy Spirit was given. ³And he said, Into what then were ye baptized? And they said, Into John’s baptism. ⁴And Paul said, John baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people that they should believe on him that should come after him, that is, on Jesus. ⁵And when they heard this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.

—ACTS 22:16 ¹⁶And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on his name.

—ROMANS 6:3-6 ³Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? ⁴We were buried therefore with him through baptism unto death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. ⁵For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection; ⁶knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;

—1 CORINTHIANS 1:13-17  ¹³Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? ¹⁴I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, ¹⁵lest anyone should say that I had baptized in my own name. ¹⁶Yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas. Besides, I do not know whether I baptized any other. ¹⁷For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

—1 CORINTHIANS 6:11  ¹¹And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

—1 CORINTHIANS 10:2 ²and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

—GALATIANS 3:27  ²⁷For as many of you as were baptized into Christ did put on Christ.

—EPHESIANS 5:14  ¹⁴Therefore He says: “Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light.”

—COLOSSIANS 2:11-12 ¹¹in whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ; ¹²having been buried with him in baptism, wherein ye were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

—COLOSSIANS 3:1 If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

—COLOSSIANS 3:3  ³For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

—COLOSSIANS 3:9-10 ⁹lie not one to another; seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings, ¹⁰and have put on the new man, that is being renewed unto knowledge after the image of him that created him:

—TITUS 3:5 ⁵not by works done in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit.

—HEBREWS 10:22 ²²let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience: and having our body washed with pure water,

—1 PETER 1:3 ³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

—1 PETER 3:21 ²¹which also after a true likeness doth now save you, even baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;

—2 PETER 1:9 ⁹For he that lacketh these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins...

—1 PETER 1:23 ²³having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which liveth and abideth.

—1 JOHN 5:6-8 ⁶This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. ⁷And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is the truth. ⁸For there are three who bear witness, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and the three agree in one.

—REVELATION 1:5  ⁵and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loveth us, and loosed us from our sins by his blood;

—REVELATION 22:14 ¹⁴Blessed are they that wash their robes, that they may have the right to come to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

BEAUTY

—PROVERBS 11:22 22 As a ring of gold in a swine’s snout, So is a fair woman that is without discretion.

BEHAVIOR

—ROMANS 13:13. ¹³Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.

—1 TIMOTHY 3:14-15  ¹⁴These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly; ¹⁵but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.