Laws for men Flashcards
What had God demanded of 🚹 man?
The Head & Beard
What scripture?
Job 40:7
Grid up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
Leviticus 19:27
Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shall thou mar the corners of thy beard.
Leviticus 21:5
They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall thy shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
(Zondervan Bible dictionary says the beard is a sign of manly dignity.)
2 Samuel 19:24
And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, you, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace.
2 Samuel 10:4-5
4: Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved off the half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
5: When they told it unto David, he said to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.
Work/ Get a job
Do not be supported by a 🚺 woman
What scripture?
2 Thessalonians 3:10
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, then neither should he eat.
Proverbs 6:6-11
6: Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
7: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
8: Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
9: How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
10: Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
11: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Ecclesiasticus 25:22 (Sirach)
A woman, if she maintain her husband, is full of anger, impudence, and much reproach.
Dress code
No head covering w/ scriptures
What scriptures?
Ecclesiasticus 19:29-30 (Sirach)
29: A man may be known by his look, and one that has understanding by his countenance, when thou meetest him.
30: A man’s attire (clothing), and exclusive laughter, and gait (walk), shew what he is.
Zephaniah 1:8
And it shall come to pass in the day of the Lord’s sacrifice, that I will punish the princes and the king’s children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel.
Numbers 15:38-40
38: Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringes of the borders a ribband of blue:
39: And it shall be unto you for fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
40: That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.
1 Corinthians 11:4
Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.
1 Corinthians 11:7
For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
God is orderly: man, woman, child
The man is the head
What scripture?
1 Corinthians 11:3
But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is a man; and the head of Christ is God.
Ezekiel 34:31
And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are man, and I am your God, saith the Lord God.
Genesis 18:19
For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
1 Timothy 3:5
(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the Church of God?)
Get a place to live/ have your own
What scripture?
Ecclesiasticus 29:21-28 (Sirach)
21: The chief thing for life is water, and bread, and clothing, and an house to cover shame.
22: Better is the life of a poor man in and a mean cottage, than delicate fare in another man’s house.
23: Be it little or much, hold the contented, that thou hear not the reproach of thy house.
24: For it is a miserable life to go from house to house: for where thou art a stranger, thou darestis not open thy mouth.
25: Thou shalt entertain, a feast, and have no thanks: moreover thou shalt hear bitter words:
26: Come, thou stranger, and furnish a table, and feed me of that thou has ready.
27: Give place, thou stranger, to an honourable 🚹 man; my brother cometh to be lodged, and I have need of mine house.
28: These things are grevious to a man of understanding; the upbraiding of houseroom, and reproaching of the lender.
