Leviticus 11:9-12 ESV / 237 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “These you may eat, of all that are in the waters. Everything in the waters that has fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat. But anything in the seas or the rivers that has not fins and scales, of the swarming creatures in the waters and of the living creatures that are in the waters, is detestable to you. You shall regard them as detestable; you shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall detest their carcasses. Everything in the waters that has not fins and scales is detestable to you.

Deuteronomy 14:9 ESV / 157 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “Of all that are in the waters you may eat these: whatever has fins and scales you may eat.

Leviticus 11:1-47 ESV / 110 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them, “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth. Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. Nevertheless, among those that chew the cud or part the hoof, you shall not eat these: The camel, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. ...

Mark 7:19 ESV / 76 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)

Leviticus 11:12 ESV / 69 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Everything in the waters that has not fins and scales is detestable to you.

Genesis 19:33-36 ESV / 67 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful So they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father. He did not know when she lay down or when she arose. The next day, the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine tonight also. Then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father.” So they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose. Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father.

Romans 10:4 ESV / 59 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Leviticus 19:19 ESV / 56 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor shall you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material.

Genesis 9:3 ESV / 55 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.

Mark 7:18-19 ESV / 54 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)

Deuteronomy 14:9-10 ESV / 53 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “Of all that are in the waters you may eat these: whatever has fins and scales you may eat. And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.

James 1:5-6 ESV / 52 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.

Acts 10:15 ESV / 50 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And the voice came to him again a second time, “What God has made clean, do not call common.”

Deuteronomy 14:1-29 ESV / 50 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. “You shall not eat any abomination. These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep. ...

Matthew 15:11 ESV / 49 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.”

Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 46 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

Colossians 2:16 ESV / 44 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.

Acts 15:1-41 ESV / 42 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about this question. So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers. When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they declared all that God had done with them. But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses.” ...

Leviticus 11:3 ESV / 41 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 40 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. ...

1 Corinthians 8:8 ESV / 39 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do.

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 38 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ...

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 37 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

Ephesians 2:15 ESV / 34 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful By abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,

Proverbs 23:2 ESV / 34 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite.

Ezekiel 23:20 ESV / 33 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And lusted after her paramours there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses.

1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,

Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Isaiah 66:17 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one in the midst, eating pig's flesh and the abomination and mice, shall come to an end together, declares the Lord.

Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water; the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms. And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable. ...

Leviticus 19:2 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.

Leviticus 11:7-8 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And the pig, because it parts the hoof and is cloven-footed but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

Song of Solomon 7:3 ESV / 31 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.

Leviticus 11:13 ESV / 31 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “And these you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten; they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

Galatians 3:24-26 ESV / 30 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.

1 Corinthians 10:25 ESV / 30 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience.

Acts 10:1-48 ESV / 30 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort, a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God. About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him, “Cornelius.” And he stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God. And now send men to Joppa and bring one Simon who is called Peter. ...

Leviticus 11:9 ESV / 30 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “These you may eat, of all that are in the waters. Everything in the waters that has fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat.

Isaiah 65:4 ESV / 29 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Who sit in tombs, and spend the night in secret places; who eat pig's flesh, and broth of tainted meat is in their vessels;

Colossians 2:16-17 ESV / 28 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 27 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Leviticus 11:10 ESV / 27 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But anything in the seas or the rivers that has not fins and scales, of the swarming creatures in the waters and of the living creatures that are in the waters, is detestable to you.

Leviticus 11:11 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful You shall regard them as detestable; you shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall detest their carcasses.

Leviticus 11:7 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And the pig, because it parts the hoof and is cloven-footed but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you.

Leviticus 11:2 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth.

Mark 7:1-37 ESV / 25 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands, holding to the tradition of the elders, and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.) And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?” ...

Leviticus 19:28 ESV / 25 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 25 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 18:1-30 ESV / 25 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, I am the Lord your God. You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes. You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God. You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord. ...

Acts 10:9-16 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray. And he became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance and saw the heavens opened and something like a great sheet descending, being let down by its four corners upon the earth. In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of the air. And there came a voice to him: “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.” ...

Luke 1:37 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Deuteronomy 14:3-20 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “You shall not eat any abomination. These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep. Every animal that parts the hoof and has the hoof cloven in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cloven you shall not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, are unclean for you. ...

1 Peter 1:16 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

1 Timothy 1:10 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,

Matthew 19:4-6 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Isaiah 66:3 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “He who slaughters an ox is like one who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, like one who breaks a dog's neck; he who presents a grain offering, like one who offers pig's blood; he who makes a memorial offering of frankincense, like one who blesses an idol. These have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations;

Leviticus 18:19 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.

Deuteronomy 14:8 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And the pig, because it parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. Their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.

Leviticus 11:4 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Nevertheless, among those that chew the cud or part the hoof, you shall not eat these: The camel, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Mark 10:3 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful He answered them, “What did Moses command you?”

Leviticus 11:44 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For I am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground.

1 Timothy 4:1-4 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

Ephesians 1:4 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love

Leviticus 5:2 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Or if anyone touches an unclean thing, whether a carcass of an unclean wild animal or a carcass of unclean livestock or a carcass of unclean swarming things, and it is hidden from him and he has become unclean, and he realizes his guilt;

Deuteronomy 14:3 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “You shall not eat any abomination.

Genesis 1:29 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.

Colossians 2:8 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

Leviticus 19:13 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire,

Mark 10:11-12 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

Leviticus 19:9 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest.

Leviticus 11:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful You shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

2 Peter 1:5-7 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

2 Timothy 3:1-9 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. ...

1 Timothy 4:1-5 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.

Romans 14:20 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats.

Mark 7:18 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him,

1 Timothy 4:4 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Isaiah 66:15-17 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “For behold, the Lord will come in fire, and his chariots like the whirlwind, to render his anger in fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. For by fire will the Lord enter into judgment, and by his sword, with all flesh; and those slain by the Lord shall be many. “Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one in the midst, eating pig's flesh and the abomination and mice, shall come to an end together, declares the Lord.

Deuteronomy 21:20 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’

Deuteronomy 14:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cloven you shall not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, are unclean for you.

1 Corinthians 8:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

Leviticus 20:6 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “If a person turns to mediums and necromancers, whoring after them, I will set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.

Leviticus 11:20 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “All winged insects that go on all fours are detestable to you.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Leviticus 11:29 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “And these are unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the ground: the mole rat, the mouse, the great lizard of any kind,

Leviticus 10:1-20 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it and laid incense on it and offered unauthorized fire before the Lord, which he had not commanded them. And fire came out from before the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord. Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord has said, ‘Among those who are near me I will be sanctified, and before all the people I will be glorified.’” And Aaron held his peace. And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, “Come near; carry your brothers away from the front of the sanctuary and out of the camp.” So they came near and carried them in their coats out of the camp, as Moses had said. ...

Luke 16:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

Matthew 6:5-7 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.

Leviticus 11:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The barn owl, the tawny owl, the carrion vulture,

Revelation 2:1-29 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands. “‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary. But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. ...

Luke 6:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God.

Luke 5:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But he would withdraw to desolate places and pray.

Mark 10:2-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ...

Mark 1:35 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.

Matthew 19:8-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”