Bible verses about "control" | MNT

⁵² Then Jesus said to him. "Put back your sword into its place! for all who take the sword will perish by the sword. ⁵³ "Do you not suppose that I am able to appeal to my Father to furnish me at this very moment with twelve legions of angels? ⁵⁴ "But if I did, how could the Scriptures be fulfilled that say that thus it must happen?"

¹ One day the Pharisees came to him in a body with some Scribes who had come from Jerusalem. ² They had noticed that some of his disciples were eating with "common," that is to say, unwashed hands. ³ For the Pharisees and all of the Jews do not eat until they have ceremoniously washed their hands in obedience to the tradition of the elders; ⁴ and when they come from the market-place they do not eat without bathing first. and they have many other customs which they have received and observe, such as the washing of cups and jugs and copper pans. ⁵ So the Pharisees and Scribes asked him. "Why do your disciples not follow the traditions of the elders? Why do they eat with 'common' unwashed hands?" ⁶ "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, hypocrites," he answered. "As it is written, 'This people honor me with their lips, While their hearts are far from me; ⁷ But in vain do they worship me, For their teaching is only human precepts.'" ⁸ "You neglect the commandment of God, and hold fast the traditions of men." ⁹ "It is praiseworthy, is it," he exclaimed, "to reject the command of God that you may keep your tradition! ¹⁰ For although Moses said, Honor your father and mother, and Let him who curses father or mother suffer death, ¹¹ you say that if a man tells his father or mother, 'This money which otherwise you would have received from me, is Korban' (that is, a thing devoted to God), ¹² you exempt him from doing any service for his father or mother. ¹³ Thus by your tradition which you have handed down you set at naught the word of God; and you do many other things like that." ¹⁴ Then again he called the crowd to him and said: ¹⁵ "Listen to me, all of you, and understand; there is nothing outside a man which by entering in can defile him; but it is what comes from him that defiled him." ¹⁶ OMITTED TEXT. ¹⁷ After he had left the crowd and gone indoors his disciples began asking him about the parable. ¹⁸ "Are even you without understanding?" he said. "Do you not perceive that nothing whatever from without can defile a man by entering him, ¹⁹ because it does not go into his heart, but into his belly, and passes away, ejected from him?" By these words he pronounced all foods clean. ²⁰ "What comes out of a man," he continued, "is what defiles him. ²¹ From within, from the heart of man, proceed evil purposes— ²² fornication, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, wantonness, envy, slander, arrogance, reckless folly— ²³ all these wicked things issue from within and defile a man." ²⁴ After he rose and left that place, he went away into the region of Tyre and Sidon. Here he went into a house and wished no one to know it but he could not be hid. ²⁵ Forthwith a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet ²⁶ (the woman was a Greek, a Syro-phoenician by race), and again and again she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. ²⁷ "Let the children be filled first," he said to her. "It is unseemly to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." ²⁸ "True, Master," she answered, "but the dogs under the table do pick up the children's crumbs." ²⁹ "For that saying of yours, go home," he replied; "the demon has departed from your daughter." ³⁰ So she went home, and found the child lying in her bed and the demon departed. ³¹ Again he left the region of Tyre, and passed through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, crossing the District of the Ten Towns. ³² And they brought to him a deaf man who stammered, and begged him to lay his hands upon him. ³³ So Jesus took him aside from the crowd, by himself, and put his finger in the man's ears, and moistened his tongue with saliva; ³⁴ then looking up to heaven with a sigh, he said to him, "Ephphatha!" (that is, "Be opened.") ³⁵ And his ears were opened and the bond of his tongue was loosened, and he spoke plainly. ³⁶ Then Jesus charged them not to tell any one, but the more he charged them, the more they published it; ³⁷ and people were amazed beyond measure saying. "How successfully he does things! Even the deaf he makes to hear, and the dumb to speak."

¹ Then Jesus was led up into the desert by the Spirit, to be tempted by the devil. ² And after he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he became hungry, ³ So the tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, bid these stones to become bread." ⁴ Jesus answered him, "It is written, Not by bread alone shall man live, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God." ⁵ Then the devil took him up into the Holy City and stood him on the parapet of the temple, ⁶ and said to him. "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down; for it is written, "He will give his angels charge over thee; Upon their hands they will bear thee up, Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone." ⁷ "It is written again," answered Jesus, "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God." ⁸ Then the devil took Jesus to a very high mountain, and showed all the kingdoms of the earth and the glory of them, ⁹ and said to him, "All these will I give you, if you will fall down and worship me." ¹⁰ "Begone, Satan!" answered Jesus, for it is written, "Thou must worship the Lord thy God, and Him only must thou serve." ¹¹ Then the devil left him, and behold! angels came and began ministering to him. ¹² Now when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee. ¹³ He left Nazareth, and settled in Capernaum-by-the-Lake, near the borders of Zebulun and Naphtali, ¹⁴ in order that these words spoken through Isaiah the prophet, might be fulfilled: ¹⁵ Land of Zebulun, land of Naphtali; The road by the Lake; the country beyond Jordan; Galilee of the Gentiles! ¹⁶ The people who were dwelling in darkness Have seen a great light; And on those who were dwelling in the land of the shadows of death Light has dawned. ¹⁷ From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, "Repent for the kingdom of heaven is near." ¹⁸ And as he was walking by the see of Galilee, he saw two brothers—Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother—casting their net into the sea, for they were fishermen. ¹⁹ "Come, follow me," said Jesus, "And I will make you fishers of men." ²⁰ And they dropped their nets at once, and followed him. ²¹ As he went farther on he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them. ²² They immediately left the boat and their father, and followed him. ²³ Then Jesus went about through Galilee, teaching in the synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and infirmity among the people. ²⁴ And his fame spread throughout all Syria. They brought all the sick to him, those who were suffering from various diseases and troubles—demoniacs, epileptics, paralytics—and he healed them. ²⁵ Great crowds followed him from Galilee, from the ten towns, from Jerusalem, and Judea, and from beyond Jordan.

²⁶ "But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and bring to your remembrance everything that I have told you.

¹⁹ Never revenge yourself, beloved, but leave the field clear for God's wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay," says the Lord.

¹³ No temptation has overtaken you that is beyond man's power; but God is faithful, who will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear, but will, with every temptation, provide the way of escape also, so that you may be able to withstand.

⁴ For the ruler is God's minister appointed for your good. But if you are a wrong-doer, be afraid; he does not carry the sword to no purpose; he is God's servant, appointed to vengeance upon the guilty.

⁸ But if any one fails to provide for his own, and especially for his kindred, he has denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.