| 1Cor.7.35 | I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord. |
| Col.2.23 | These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh. |
| 1Tim.1.4 | nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith. |