傳道書 3:1
- 8
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:
a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
凡事都有定期，天下萬務都有定時。
生有時，死有時；栽種有時，拔出所栽種的也有時；
殺戮有時，醫治有時；拆毀有時，建造有時；
哭有時，笑有時；哀慟有時，跳舞有時；
拋擲石頭有時，堆聚石頭有時；懷抱有時，不懷抱有時；
尋找有時，失落有時；保守有時，捨棄有時；
撕裂有時，縫補有時；靜默有時，言語有時；
喜愛有時，恨惡有時；爭戰有時，和好有時。
哥林多前書 6:12
"I have the right to do anything," you say-but not everything is beneficial. "I have the right to do anything"-but I will not be mastered by anything.
凡事我都可行，但不都有益處。凡事我都可行，但無論哪一件，我總不受他的轄制。
提摩太前書 4:2
- 5
Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.
They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth.
For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,
because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.
這是因為說謊之人的假冒；這等人的良心如同被熱鐵烙慣了一般。
他們禁止嫁娶，又禁戒食物（或作：又叫人戒葷），就是神所造、叫那信而明白真道的人感謝著領受的。
凡神所造的物都是好的，若感謝著領受，就沒有一樣可棄的，
都因神的道和人的祈求成為聖潔了。
