B - Precepts Flashcards

Question

**BRING MY BODY INTO SUBJECTION**

Answer 1

**1Corinthians 9:27** But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

Answer 2

**Sirach 20:22** There is that destroyeth his own soul through bashfulness, and by accepting of persons overthroweth himself. 23 There is that for bashfulness promiseth to his friend, and maketh him his enemy for nothing.

Answer 3

**Romans 12:10** Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

Answer 4

**Psalms 51:17** The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Answer 5

**1John 4:1** Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Answer 6

**Matthew 5:48** Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Answer 7

**Revelations 1:3** Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

Answer 8

**Sirach 32:24** He that believeth in the Lord taketh heed to the commandment; and he that trusteth in him shall fare never the worse.

Answer 9

**Leviticus 13:40** And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.

Answer 10

**Malachi 1:4** Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the Lord hath indignation for ever.

Answer 11

**Psalms 46:10** Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

Answer 12

**Ecclesiastes 10:18** By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.

Answer 13

**Haggai 1:6** Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

Answer 14

**Sirach 4:20** Observe the opportunity, and beware of evil; and be not ashamed when it concerneth thy soul.

Answer 15

**Psalms 33:12** Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

Answer 16

**1Corinthians 6:9-10** Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Answer 17

**Sirach 5:15** Be not ignorant of any thing in a great matter or a small.

Answer 18

**Sirach 15:3** With the bread of understanding shall she feed him, and give him the water of wisdom to drink.

Answer 19

**2Esdras 9:13** And therefore be thou not curious how the ungodly shall be punished, and when: but enquire how the righteous shall be saved, whose the world is, and for whom the world is created.

Answer 20

**Ecclesiastes 3:18** I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

Answer 21

**Ecclesiastes 7:8** Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Answer 22

**Sirach 11:7-8** Blame not before thou hast examined the truth: understand first, and then rebuke. 8 Answer not before thou hast heard the cause: neither interrupt men in the midst of their talk.

Answer 23

**Jeremiah 3:12** Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not keep anger for ever. 13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the Lord.

Answer 24

**1Timothy 4:12** Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

Answer 25

**James 1:22** But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

Answer 26

**Hebrews 12:8** But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

Answer 27

**Matthew 7:13** Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in there 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Answer 28

**Colossians 2:8** Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. ## Footnote BEWARE Deu 6:12; Mat 7:15; Mat 10:17; Mat 16:6; Phl 3:2; 2Pe 3:17 spoil Col 2:18; Sng 2:15; Jer 29:8; Rom 16:17; Eph 5:6; Heb 13:9; 2J0 1:8 PHILOSOPHY Act 17:18,32: Rom 1:21,22: 1C0 1:19-23; 1Co 3:18,19; 1Co 15:35,36; 2Co 10:5; \*Gr:; 1Ti 6:20; 2Ti 2:17,18: 2Ti 3:13 AFTER TRADITIONS Col 2:22; Mat 15:2-9; Mar 7:3-13; Gal 1:14: 1Pe 1:18 THE RUDIMENTS or, the elements. Col 2:20; Gal 4:3,9; Eph 2:2

Answer 29

**Wisdom of Solomon 4:12** For the bewitching of naughtiness doth obscure things that are honest; and the wandering of concupiscence doth undermine the simple mind.

Answer 30

**Deuteronomy 23:2** A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord. 3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the Lord for ever:

Answer 31

**Psalms 113:9** He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord.

Answer 32

**Matthew 5:48** Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Answer 33

**Revelations 14:13** And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.

Answer 34

Sirach 4:10 Be as a father unto the fatherless, and instead of an husband unto their mother: so shalt thou be as the son of the most High, and he shall love thee more than thy mother doth.

Answer 35

Proverbs 24:1 Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. 2 For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

Answer 36

Proverbs 21:9 It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

Answer 37

Wisdom of Solomon 4:1 Better it is to have no children, and to have virtue: for the memorial thereof is immortal: because it is known with God, and with men. 4 For though they flourish in branches for a time; yet standing not last, they shall be shaken with the wind, and through the force of winds they shall be rooted out. 6 For children begotten of unlawful beds are witnesses of wickedness against their parents in their trial.

Answer 38

Sirach 34:21 The bread of the needy is their life: he that defraudeth him thereof is a man of blood. 22 He that taketh away his neighbour's living slayeth him; and he that defraudeth the labourer of his hire is a bloodshedder.

Answer 39

Ecclesiastes 5:1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil. 2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.S

Answer 40

2Peter 3:2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:

Answer 41

1Peter 3:8-9 Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: 9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. BE Act 2:1; Act 4:32; Rom 12:16; Rom 15:5; 1Co 1:10; Phl 3:16 HAVING Zec 7:9; Mat 18:33; Luk 10:33; Rom 12:15; 1Co 12:26; Jas 2:13; Jas 3:17 LOVE AS BRETHREN or, loving to the brethren. 1Pe 1:22; 1Pe 2:17; Rom 12:10; He 13:1; 2Pe 1:7; 1Jo 3:14.18.19 PITIFUL Pa 103:13; Pro 28:8; Mat 18:33; Jas 5:11 COURTEOUS Act 27:3; Act 28:7; Eph 4:31,32; Eph 5:1,2; Phl 4:8,9; Col 3:12 RENDERING 1Pe 2:20-23; Pro 17:13; Pro 20:22; Mat 5:39,44; Luk 6:27-29; Rom 12:14,17,19-21; 1Co 4:12,13; Eph 4:32; 1Th 5:15 CALLED 1Pe 2:21; 1Pe 5:10; Rom 8:28,30 THAT Mat 19:29; Mat 25:34; Mar 10:17; Luk 10:25; Luk 18:18

Answer 42

Sirach 4:30 Be not as a lion in thy house, nor frantick among thy servants.

Answer 43

Luke 11:27-28 And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. 28 But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

Answer 44

Genesis 11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. Jeremiah 49:16-17 Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord. 17 Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof. Isaiah 14:4,13-14 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! 13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Habakkuk 2:9-10 Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! 10 Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul. Rev 18:1-2; 4 Babylon the great is fallen, come out of her my people

Answer 45

Jeremiah 51:20 Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;

Answer 46

1Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

Answer 47

John 20:29 Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

Answer 48

Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 25:24 Of the woman came the beginning of sin, and through her we all die.

Answer 49

Matthew 12:50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

Answer 50

Proverbs 31:30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.

Answer 51

Isaiah 41:21 Produce your cause, saith the Lord; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.

Answer 52

Wisdom of Solomon 14:27 For the worshipping of idols not to be named is the beginning, the cause, and the end, of all evil.

Answer 53

Ezekiel 23:3 And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.

Answer 54

Jeremiah 8:1 At that time, saith the Lord, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves: 2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

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