For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News--not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn't be made void.
But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.
Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.
We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us.
Herein I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.
For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.
I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"
Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man's covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it.
so shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing I sent it to do.
I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.
making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this."
he shall not honor his father or mother.' You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.
She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.
He shall separate to the LORD the days of his separation, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a trespass offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled.
But if her husband disallow her in the day that he hears it, then he shall make void her vow which is on her, and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul: and the LORD will forgive her.
But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband has made them void; and the LORD will forgive her.
Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
But if he shall make them null and void after that he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity."
Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.
He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.
I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
"Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
"Whoever is simple, let him turn in here." as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.
One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding holds his peace.
He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.
Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding keeps his way straight.
A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbor.
All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.
I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.
But I ask, didn't Israel know? First Moses says, "I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, with a nation void of understanding I will make you angry."
Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning;
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