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Zechariah 7:6 And when you did eat, and when you did drink, did not you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

Deuteronomy 12:7,12 And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households...

Nehemiah 8:10 Then he said to them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions to them for whom nothing is prepared...

Romans 14:6,7 He that regards the day, regards it to the Lord; and he that regards not the day, to the Lord he does not regard it. He that eats...

1 Corinthians 10:31 Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

1 Timothy 4:3-5 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats...

no more.

Isaiah 4:3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remains in Jerusalem, shall be called holy...

Isaiah 35:8 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it...

Ezekiel 44:9 Thus said the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary...

Hosea 12:7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loves to oppress.

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Joel 3:17 So shall you know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy...

Matthew 21:12,13 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple...

Mark 11:15-17 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple...

John 2:15,16 And when he had made a whip of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen...

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters...

Revelation 18:11-15 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buys their merchandise any more...

Revelation 21:27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defiles, neither whatever works abomination, or makes a lie...

Revelation 22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and whoever loves and makes a lie.

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Ephesians 2:19-22 Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God...

1 Timothy 3:15 But if I tarry long, that you may know how you ought to behave yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God...

Hebrews 3:6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we...

1 Peter 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us...

The predictions contained in this chapter seem to relate to events which gradually extend from the death of Christ to the glorious days of the millennium:--the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, whose armies were composed of many nations, which was the day of the Lord, in which he came to destroy those who would not that he should reign over them, (ver.

1 Peter 4:1 For as much then as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind...

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1 Peter 4:2 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

;) the subversion of the Roman empire, after being the executioners of the Divine vengeance on the Jews, by God's stirring up the barbarous nations to invade them, (ver.

1 Peter 4:3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts...

;) the effusion of Divine knowledge from Jerusalem, by the promulgation of the Gospel, (ver.

1 Peter 4:4-9 Wherein they think it strange that you run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you...

;) the rebuilding and replenishing of Jerusalem, (ver.

1 Peter 4:10 As every man has received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

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1 Peter 4:11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God gives...

;) the destruction of the nations who shall fight against her, (ver.

1 Peter 4:12-15 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you...

;) the conversion of the remnant of those nations to the Lord, (ver.

1 Peter 4:16-19 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf...

;) and the peace and purity of the universal church in the latter days, (ver.

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