Bible verses about "control" | Sawyer

⁵² Then Jesus said to him, Put up your sword in its place; for all who take the sword shall perish by the sword. ⁵³ Do you think that I could not ask my Father, and he would furnish me more than twelve legions of angels? ⁵⁴ How then would the Scriptures be accomplished, that it must be so?

^{1 (7:1)} AND the Pharisees and some of the scribes having come from Jerusalem came together to him, ² and seeing some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is, unwashed hands, [they found fault]. ³ For the Pharisees and all the Jews eat not unless they wash their hands with the fist, holding the tradition of the elders. ⁴ And from a market, unless they baptize they eat not; and there are many other [customs] which they have received to hold; baptisms, of cups and sextuses [ 1 1-2 pint measures], and brass vessels, and beds. ⁵ And the Pharisees and scribes asked, Why do not your disciples conform to the tradition of the elders; but eat bread with defiled hands? ^{6 (7:2)} And he said to them, Well did Isaiah prophecy of you, hypocrites, as it is written; This people honors me with the lips, but their heart is far from me; ⁷ but in vain do they worship me, teaching for teachings the commandments of men; ⁸ for leaving the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men. ^{9 (7:3)} And he said to them, Well do you reject the commandment of God, to keep your tradition; ¹⁰ for Moses said, Honor your father and your mother, and, He that reviles father or mother, let him surely die. ¹¹ But you say, If a man says to his father or mother, It is a corban, which is a gift, by whatever you might be profited by me, [he shall be free]; ¹² and suffer him no longer to do any thing for his father or his mother; ¹³ making the word of God of no effect by your tradition which you have delivered; and many such things you do. ¹⁴ And again calling all the people, he said to them, Hear me, all of you, and understand. ¹⁵ Nothing which being out of a man entering into him, can defile him; but those things which proceed from the man, these are the things which defile the man. ¹⁶ (Added verse not retained in Sawyer) ^{17 (7:4)} And when he had gone from the multitude into the house, his disciples asked him concerning the parable. ¹⁸ And he said to them, Are you also so without understanding? Do you not understand that nothing which enters into a man from without can defile him, ¹⁹ because it enters not into his heart, but into the stomach, and goes out to the earth, purifying all aliments? ²⁰ But he said, that which comes out of the man, this defiles him; ²¹ for from within, from the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, fornications, ²² thefts, murders, adulteries, covetousness, malice, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. ²³ All these evil things proceed from within, and defile the man. ^{24 (7:5)} And he rose up, and departed thence to the regions of Tyre. And entering into a house he wished no one to know it; and he could not be hid. ²⁵ But immediately, a woman whose little daughter had an impure spirit, hearing of him, came and fell down at his feet; ²⁶ and she was a Greek, a Syrophenician by race; and she asked him to cast the demon out of her daughter. ²⁷ And he said to her, Suffer the children first to be filled; it is not right to take the children's bread, and cast it to the little dogs. ²⁸ And she answered and said to him, Yes, Lord; for even the little dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs. ²⁹ And he said to her, For this speech, go; the demon has gone out of your daughter. ³⁰ And departing to her house, she found the little child laid on the bed, and the demon gone out. ^{31 (7:6)} And again going out of the bounds of Tyre, he came through Sidon, to the lake of Galilee, in the midst of the bounds of Decapolis. ³² And they brought him a dumb man that stammered, and besought him to put his hand on him. ³³ And taking him from the multitude by himself, he put his fingers in his ears, and spit, and touched his tongue, ³⁴ and looking up to heaven he groaned, and said to him, Ephphatha, which is, Be opened. ³⁵ And immediately his ears were opened, and the cord of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke correctly. ³⁶ And he charged them to tell no one; but as much as he charged them, so much the more they proclaimed [his works]. ³⁷ And they were astonished above measure, and said, He has done all things well; he makes both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.

^{1 (3:4)} Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness, to be tempted by the devil. ² And having fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterwards hungry. ³ And the tempter came and said to him, If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become bread. ⁴ And he answered and said; It is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word which proceeds from the mouth of God. ⁵ Then the devil took him into the holy city, and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, ⁶ and said to him, If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down; for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning you, and they shall take you up on their hands, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone. ⁷ Jesus said to him, Again it is written, You shall not try the Lord your God. ⁸ Again the devil took him away on a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory, ⁹ and said to him, All these things will I give you, if you will fall down and worship me. ¹⁰ Then Jesus said to him, Get behind me Satan; for it is written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve. ¹¹ Then the devil left him; and behold angels came and waited on him. ^{12 (4:1)} AND when he heard that John was delivered up, he departed to Galilee; ¹³ and leaving Nazareth he came and lived at Capernaum on the lake, in the bounds of Zebulon and Naphtali, ¹⁴ that the word might be fulfilled, spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying; ¹⁵ Land of Zebulon and Naphtali, by the way of the lake, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations, ¹⁶ the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and upon those who sat in the region and shade of death has light arisen. ¹⁷ From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Change your minds; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. ^{18 (4:2)} And walking by the lake of Galilee he saw two brothers, Simon, called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. ¹⁹ And he said to them, Come after me, and I will make you fishermen of men. ²⁰ And they left their nets, immediately, and followed him. ²¹ And going forward thence, he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them. ²² And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him. ^{23 (4:3)} And he went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every infirmity among the people. ²⁴ And his fame went out into all Syria; and they brought him all that were ill, afflicted with various diseases and torments, and demoniacs, and lunatics, and paralytics, and he cured them; ²⁵ and great multitudes followed him from Galilee, and Decapolis, and Jerusalem, and Judea, and beyond the Jordan.

²⁶ but the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, which the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and remind you of all things which I have told you.

¹⁹ not vindicating yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath; for it is written, Judgment is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.

¹³ For no trial has befallen you but what is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not permit you to be tried beyond what you are able, but with the trial will order the event, that you may be able to endure.

⁴ for [the power] is God's minister to you for good. But if you do evil, fear; for it bears not the sword in vain; for it is God's minister of justice for punishment to him that does evil.

⁸ And if any one provides not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.