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One day, as Jesus was passing through a field of grain on… Mark 2:23-28

One day, as Jesus was passing through a field of grain on the Sabbath, his disciples began to pick some heads of grain as they walked along. The Pharisees said to him, “Behold, why are your disciples doing what is forbidden on the Sabbath?”

He answered, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need of food? He entered the house of God when Abiathar was high priest and ate the sacred bread that only the priests were permitted to eat, and he shared it with his companions.” Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. That is why the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”
Mark 2:23-28 sabbath bread
In the same way, even the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs that cannot be put into words.
Romans 8:26 speaking Spirit prayer

Whatever moves and has life will be used for your food. I give you all these things, just as I have already given you every green plant. Only do not eat flesh along with its life, that is, with its blood.
Genesis 9:3-4 food blood
The Lord will protect you against all evil;
he will watch over your life.
The Lord will watch over your coming and your going
both now and forevermore.
Psalm 121:7-8 hope life evil
But now the righteousness of God that is attested by the Law and the Prophets has been manifested apart from law: the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. No distinction has been made.
Romans 3:21-22 faith law righteousness
Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, just as Christ is the head of the Church, the body of which he is the Savior.
Ephesians 5:22-23 marriage Jesus salvation
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and offered worship and service to the creature rather than to the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. That is why God abandoned them to their shameful passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural practices. Likewise, men gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameful acts with men and received in their own persons the fitting penalty for their perversion. Furthermore, since these people did not see fit to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their depraved way of thinking and to all types of vile behavior.
Romans 1:25-28 idols sexuality desires
If you keep my commandments,
you will remain in my love,
just as I have kept my Father’s commandments
and remain in his love.
John 15:10 law love Jesus
However, each one of you should love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife should respect her husband.
Ephesians 5:33 marriage relationships
May the Lord cause your love to increase and overflow for one another and for everyone else, just as our love does for you.
1 Thessalonians 3:12 love neighbor relationships
You intended to do evil to me, but God decided to make it serve a good, to fulfill that which today has come true: to keep alive a numerous people.
Genesis 50:20 God life evil
This, in fact, is what you have been called to do, because Christ himself suffered for you and left an example for you to follow in his footsteps.
1 Peter 2:21 suffering following calling
He proclaimed his covenant to you which he ordered you to fulfill, the Ten Commandments, that he wrote upon two tablets of stone.
Deuteronomy 4:13 covenant law following
Therefore, whoever breaks even one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be considered least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever observes these commandments and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:19 law kingdom heaven
Likewise, you who are husbands must show consideration for your wives in your life together. Treat your wife with respect, for even though she is the weaker partner, she is also an equal heir of God’s gift of life. Thus, your prayers will not be hindered in any way.
1 Peter 3:7 marriage prayer grace
For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
Philippians 1:21 Jesus death life
This is my commandment:
love one another
as I have loved you.
John 15:12 law love Jesus
We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners, yet we know that a man is justified not by the works of the Law but through faith in Jesus Christ. So we too came to believe in Christ Jesus so that we might be justified by faith in him and not by the works of the Law, for no one will be justified by the works of the Law.
Galatians 2:15-16 faith law righteousness
The explanation of your words gives light
and imparts understanding to the simple.
Psalm 119:130 Word of God understanding light
And as we gaze upon the glory of the Lord with unveiled faces, all of us are being transformed into that same image from glory to glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 3:18 Spirit transformation
It is the will of God that you should lead a life of sanctity. You must refrain from sexual immorality. Each of you must learn to acquire a wife from pure and honorable motives, not to gratify passion like the Gentiles who do not know God.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 holiness sexuality body
As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit descended upon them just as it had upon us at the beginning.
Acts 11:15 pentecost Holy Spirit
Just as you do not know the path of the wind
or how the body is formed in a woman’s womb,
so you do not know the work of God,
the Creator of all.
Ecclesiastes 11:5 God understanding
My son, do not ignore the Lord’s discipline
or refuse to accept his rebuke.
For the Lord disciplines those whom he loves,
just as a father chastises a beloved son.
Proverbs 3:11-12 love Father learning
Therefore, accept one another for the glory of God, just as Christ has accepted you.
Romans 15:7 Jesus worship neighbor