Lexicon :: Strong's G3366 - mēde

“Therefore I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing?

“Don’t give what is holy to dogs or toss your pearls before pigs, or they will trample them under their feet, turn, and tear you to pieces.

“Don’t acquire gold, silver, or copper for your money-belts.

“If anyone does not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that house or town.

Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, because you don’t know the Scriptures or the power of God.

“You are not to be called instructors either, because you have one Instructor, the Messiah.

“Pray that your escape may not be in winter or on a Sabbath.

So many people gathered together that there was no more room, not even in the doorway, and he was speaking the word to them.

Jesus entered a house, and the crowd gathered again so that they were not even able to eat.[fn]

“If any place does not welcome you or listen to you, when you leave there, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”[fn]

Then he sent him home, saying, “Don’t even go into the village.”[fn]

Jesus spoke to them, “Isn’t this the reason why you’re mistaken: you don’t know the Scriptures or the power of God?

“A man on the housetop must not come down or go in to get anything out of his house,

Some soldiers also questioned him, “What should we do? ”

He said to them, “Don’t take money from anyone by force or false accusation, and be satisfied with your wages.”

Then he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don’t worry about your life, what you will eat; or about the body, what you will wear.

He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you give a lunch or a dinner, don’t invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, your relatives, or your rich neighbors, because they might invite you back, and you would be repaid.

“Besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that those who want to pass over from here to you cannot; neither can those from there cross over to us.’

“They will say to you, ‘See there! ’ or ‘See here! ’ Don’t follow or run after them.

“Sir,” the woman said to him, “give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and come here to draw water.”

“Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Don’t let your heart be troubled or fearful.

So they called for them and ordered them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.

“But they have been informed about you ​— ​that you are teaching all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to abandon Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or to live according to our customs.

And do not offer any parts[fn] of it to sin as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God, and all the parts of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness.

For though her sons had not been born yet or done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to election might stand —

It is a good thing not to eat meat, or drink wine, or do anything that makes your brother or sister stumble.[fn]

Therefore, let us observe the feast, not with old leaven or with the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

But actually, I wrote[fn] you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister and is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or verbally abusive, a drunkard or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.

Don’t become idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to party.[fn]

Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful things, not acting deceitfully or distorting the word of God, but commending ourselves before God to everyone’s conscience by an open display of the truth.

and don’t give the devil an opportunity.

But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of[fn] among you, as is proper for saints.

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves.

“Don’t handle, don’t taste, don’t touch”?

not to be easily upset or troubled, either by a prophecy[fn] or by a message or by a letter supposedly from us, alleging that the day of the Lord[fn] has come.

In fact, when we were with you, this is what we commanded you: “If anyone isn’t willing to work, he should not eat.”

or to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies. These promote empty speculations rather than God’s plan, which operates by faith.

Don’t be too quick to appoint[fn] anyone as an elder, and don’t share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.

Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be arrogant or to set their hope on the uncertainty of wealth, but on God,[fn] who richly provides us with all things to enjoy.

So don’t be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, or of me his prisoner. Instead, share in suffering for the gospel, relying on the power of God.  

And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons:

My son, do not take the Lord’s discipline lightly

or lose heart when you are reproved by him,

But even if you should suffer for righteousness, you are blessed. Do not fear them[fn] or be intimidated,

Shepherd God’s flock among you, not overseeing[fn] out of compulsion but willingly, as God would have you;[fn] not out of greed for money but eagerly;

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Little children, let us not love in word or speech, but in action and in truth.