Bible Verses About Stoicism — 22 References (Nave's Topical Bible)

Stoicism in Nave's Topical Bible

(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: Mt 3:4
Came “neither eating nor drinking,”: Mt 11:18; Lu 7:33
Jesus requires self-denial and “crosses,”: Mt 10:38,39; 16:24; Mr 8:34,35; Lu 9:23-26; 14:27
The subordination of natural affection: Mt 10:37; Lu 14:26
Paul teaches
That the “law of the mind” is at war with the “law of the members,”: Ro 7:23; with 7:14-24
That the body must be kept under subjection: 1Co 9:27
Celibacy: 1Co 7:1-9,25,26,32,33,39,40
School of, at Athens: Ac 17:18
See: ASCETICISM