Nave’s Topical Bible
Stoicism
15 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
(A Greek philosophy, inculcating doctrines of severe morality, Self-denials, and inconvenience)
- Scripture analogies to
- John the Baptist wore camel's hair and subsisted on locusts And wild honey
- Came "neither eating nor drinking,"
- Jesus requires self-denial and "crosses,"
Matthew 10:38-39; Matthew 16:24; Mark 8:34-35; Luke 9:23-26; Luke 14:27
- The subordination of natural affection
- Paul teaches
- That the "law of the mind" is at war with the "law of the Members,"
- That the body must be kept under subjection
- Celibacy
- School of, at Athens
See ASCETICISM
Bible verses about “Stoicism”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Matthew 3:4And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
- Matthew 11:18For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil.
- Luke 7:33For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.
- Matthew 10:38And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
- Matthew 10:39He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
- Matthew 16:24Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
- Mark 8:34And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
- Mark 8:35For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it.
- Luke 9:23And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
- Luke 9:24For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
- Luke 9:25For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
- Luke 9:26For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father’s, and of the holy angels.
- Luke 14:27And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
- Matthew 10:37He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
- Luke 14:26If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
- Romans 7:23But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
- Romans 7:14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
- Romans 7:15For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
- Romans 7:16If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
- Romans 7:17Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
- Romans 7:18For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
- Romans 7:19For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
- Romans 7:20Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
- Romans 7:21I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
- Romans 7:22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
- Romans 7:24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
- 1 Corinthians 9:27But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
- 1 Corinthians 7:1Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
- 1 Corinthians 7:2Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
- 1 Corinthians 7:3Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
- 1 Corinthians 7:4The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
- 1 Corinthians 7:5Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
- 1 Corinthians 7:6But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
- 1 Corinthians 7:7For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
- 1 Corinthians 7:8I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
- 1 Corinthians 7:9But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
- 1 Corinthians 7:25Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.
- 1 Corinthians 7:26I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
- 1 Corinthians 7:32But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
- 1 Corinthians 7:33But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.