Blaine Sledge

Alcohol

Proverbs 20:1 (NIV)
Wine is a mocker and beer a brawler; whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

Filthy Rags

Isaiah 64:6 (NIV)
All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away.

John 15:5

John 15:5 (NIV)
"I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

It is a matter of function and order, not equality

1 Corinthians 14:34 (NIV84)
women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the Law says.

1 Peter 2:11

1 Peter 2:11 (NIV)
Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul.

Ephesians 5:3

Ephesians 5:3 (NIV)
But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people.

Proverbs 20:4

Proverbs 20:4 (NIV84)
A sluggard does not plow in season; so at harvest time he looks but finds nothing.

Jesus Meatatarian

Mark 7:19 (NIV)
For it doesn't go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body." (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)

Not what goes in; what comes out

Mark 7:15 (NIV)
Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them."

Romans 1:20

Romans 1:20 (NIV)
For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

Acts 2:42

Acts 2:42 (NIV)
They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

Isaiah 64:3

Isaiah 64:3 (NIV)
For when you did awesome things that we did not expect, you came down, and the mountains trembled before you.

Job 36:16

Job 36:16 (NIV)
"He is wooing you from the jaws of distress to a spacious place free from restriction, to the comfort of your table laden with choice food.

Romans 2:27

Romans 2:27 (NIV)
The one who is not circumcised physically and yet obeys the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.

Romans 2:13

Romans 2:13 (NIV)
For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God's sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous.

Romans 2:8

Romans 2:8 (NIV)
But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.

Romans 2:7

Romans 2:7 (NIV)
To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life.

2 Kings 7:17

2 Kings 7:17 (NIV)
Now the king had put the officer on whose arm he leaned in charge of the gate, and the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died, just as the man of God had foretold when the king came down to his house.

James 5:16

James 5:16 (ESV)
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

1 Samuel 9:6

1 Samuel 9:6 (NIV84)
But the servant replied, “Look, in this town there is a man of God; he is highly respected, and everything he says comes true. Let's go there now. Perhaps he will tell us what way to take.”

1 Samuel 9:7

1 Samuel 9:7 (NIV84)
Saul said to his servant, “If we go, what can we give the man? The food in our sacks is gone. We have no gift to take to the man of God. What do we have?”

1 Samuel 9:18

1 Samuel 9:18 (NIV84)
Saul approached Samuel in the gateway and asked, “Would you please tell me where the seer's house is?”

1 Samuel 9:21

1 Samuel 9:21 (NIV84)
Saul answered, “But am I not a Benjamite, from the smallest tribe of Israel, and is not my clan the least of all the clans of the tribe of Benjamin? Why do you say such a thing to me?”

Mark 10:45

Mark 10:45 (NIV84)
For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

John 8:12

John 8:12 (NIV84)
When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”