Stoicism
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Stoicism’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Showing 1–22 of 22 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Matthew 3:4 NT
Now John himself wore clothing made of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
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For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’
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Luke 7:33 NT
For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’
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He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me.
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He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.
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Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
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Mark 8:34 NT
He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
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Mark 8:35 NT
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.
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Luke 9:23-26 NT
He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, will save it. For what does it…
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Luke 14:27 NT
Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.
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He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.
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Luke 14:26 NT
“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.
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Romans 7:23 NT
but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
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but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
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Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. Let the husband give his wife…
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Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.
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Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us, that it’s good for a man to remain as he is.
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But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;
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but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.
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A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.
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But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God’s Spirit.
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Acts 17:18 NT
Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.