Mt 5:31 It has been said, Whoever shall put away
his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce: 32 But I
say to you, That whoever shall put away his wife, saving for
the cause of fornication, causes her to commit adultery: and
whoever shall marry her that is divorced commits adultery.
12:38 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees
answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from you.
39 But he answered and said to them, An evil and adulterous
generation seeks after a sign; and there shall no sign be
given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: 40 For as
Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly;
so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in
the heart of the earth.
19:3 The Pharisees also came
to him, tempting him, and saying to him, Is it lawful for a
man to put away his wife for every cause? 4 And he
answered and said to them, Have you not read, that he which
made them at the beginning made them male and female, 5
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and
mother, and shall join to his wife: and they two shall be
one flesh? 6 Why they are no more two, but one flesh.
What therefore God has joined together, let not man put
asunder. 7 They say to him, Why did Moses then command to
give a writing of divorce, and to put her away? 8 He said
to them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts
suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning
it was not so. 9 And I say to you, Whoever shall put away
his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry
another, commits adultery: and whoever marries her which is
put away does commit adultery.
Mr 7:20 And he
said, That which comes out of the man, that defiles the man.
21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil
thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts,
covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil
eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 All these evil
things come from within, and defile the man.
10:1 And
he arose from there, and comes into the coasts of Judaea by
the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort to him
again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again. 2 And
the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a
man to put away his wife? tempting him. 3 And he answered
and said to them, What did Moses command you? 4 And they
said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorce, and to put
her away. 5 And Jesus answered and said to them, For the
hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. 6 But
from the beginning of the creation God made them male and
female. 7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and
mother, and join to his wife; 8 And they two shall be one
flesh: so then they are no more two, but one flesh. 9
What therefore God has joined together, let not man put
asunder. 10 And in the house his disciples asked him
again of the same matter. 11 And he said to them, Whoever
shall put away his wife, and marry another, commits adultery
against her. 12 And if a woman shall put away her
husband, and be married to another, she commits adultery.
Lu 16:18 Whoever puts away his wife, and marries
another, commits adultery: and whoever marries her that is
put away from her husband commits adultery.
Joh
8:3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought to him a woman
taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the middle,
4 They say to him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery,
in the very act. 5 Now Moses in the law commanded us,
that such should be stoned: but what say you? 6 This they
said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But
Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground,
as though he heard them not. 7 So when they continued
asking him, he lifted up himself, and said to them, He that
is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. 9
And they which heard it, being convicted by their own
conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the oldest,
even to the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman
standing in the middle. 10 When Jesus had lifted up
himself, and saw none but the woman, he said to her, Woman,
where are those your accusers? has no man condemned you?
11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said to her, Neither do
I condemn you: go, and sin no more.
8:41 You do the
deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born
of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
Rom
7:1 Know you not, brothers, (for I speak to them that know
the law,) how that the law has dominion over a man as long
as he lives? 2 For the woman which has an husband is
bound by the law to her husband so long as he lives; but if
the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her
husband. 3 So then if, while her husband lives, she be
married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress:
but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so
that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another
man.
1 Cor 6:9 Know you not that the
unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not
deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with
mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor
revilers, nor extortionists, shall inherit the kingdom of
God.
7:1 Now concerning the things whereof you wrote
to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his
own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
7:10 And to the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord,
Let not the wife depart from her husband: 11 But and if
she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her
husband: and let not the husband put away his wife. 12
But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother has a
wife that believes not, and she be pleased to dwell with
him, let him not put her away. 13 And the woman which has
an husband that believes not, and if he be pleased to dwell
with her, let her not leave him. 14 For the unbelieving
husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife
is sanctified by the husband: else were your children
unclean; but now are they holy. 15 But if the unbelieving
depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under
bondage in such cases: but God has called us to peace. 16
For what know you, O wife, whether you shall save your
husband? or how know you, O man, whether you shall save your
wife?
7:25 Now concerning virgins I have no
commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that
has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful. 26 I
suppose therefore that this is good for the present
distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be. 27
Are you bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed. Are you
loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. 28 But and if you
marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has
not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the
flesh: but I spare you.
7:39 The wife is bound by the
law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband be
dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only
in the Lord. 40 But she is happier if she so abide, after
my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.
Heb 13:4 Marriage is honorable in all, and the
bed undefiled: but fornicators and adulterers God will
judge.
Jas 4:4 You adulterers and
adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world
is enmity with God? whoever therefore will be a friend of
the world is the enemy of God.
Lev 20:10 And
the man that commits adultery with another man’s wife, even
he that commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the
adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
De 24:1 When a man has taken a wife, and married
her, and it come to pass that she find no favor in his eyes,
because he has found some uncleanness in her: then let him
write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and
send her out of his house. 2 And when she is departed out
of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife. 3 And
if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of
divorce, and gives it in her hand, and sends her out of his
house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be
his wife; 4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may
not take her again to be his wife, after that she is
defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and you
shall not cause the land to sin, which the LORD your God
gives you for an inheritance.
Job 24:15 The
eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No
eye shall see me: and disguises his face.
Pr
6:32 But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks
understanding: he that does it destroys his own soul.
30:18 There be three things which are too wonderful for
me, yes, four which I know not: 19 The way of an eagle in
the air; the way of a serpent on a rock; the way of a ship
in the middle of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
20 Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats, and
wipes her mouth, and said, I have done no wickedness.
Isa 50:1 Thus said the LORD, Where is the bill of
your mother’s divorce, whom I have put away? or which of my
creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your
iniquities have you sold yourselves, and for your
transgressions is your mother put away.
Jer
3:1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from
him, and become another man’s, shall he return to her again?
shall not that land be greatly polluted? but you have played
the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, said
the LORD. 6 The LORD said also to me in the days of
Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel
has done? she is gone up on every high mountain and under
every green tree, and there has played the harlot. 7 And
I said after she had done all these things, Turn you to me.
But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw
it. 8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby
backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away,
and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister
Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also. 9
And it came to pass through the lightness of her
prostitution, that she defiled the land, and committed
adultery with stones and with stocks. 20 Surely as a wife
treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt
treacherously with me, O house of Israel, said the LORD.
5:7 How shall I pardon you for this? your children have
forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had
fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and
assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses. 8
They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed
after his neighbor’s wife. 9 Shall I not visit for these
things? said the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on
such a nation as this?
7:9 Will you steal, murder,
and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to
Baal, and walk after other gods whom you know not; 10 And
come and stand before me in this house, which is called by
my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these
abominations?
9:2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a
lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my
people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an
assembly of treacherous men.
13:27 I have seen your
adulteries, and your neighings, the lewdness of your
prostitution, and your abominations on the hills in the
fields. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! will you not be made clean?
when shall it once be?
23:10 For the land is full of
adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourns; the
pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their
course is evil, and their force is not right. 13 And I
have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied
in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err. 14 I have
seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing:
they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also
the hands of evildoers, that none does return from his
wickedness; they are all of them to me as Sodom, and the
inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
Eze 16:38 And
I will judge you, as women that break wedlock and shed blood
are judged; and I will give you blood in fury and jealousy.
Hos 4:1 Hear the word of the LORD, you children
of Israel: for the LORD has a controversy with the
inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor
mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. 2 By swearing,
and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing
adultery, they break out, and blood touches blood.
Mal 2:14 Yet you say, Why? Because the LORD has been
witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom
you have dealt treacherously: yet is she your companion, and
the wife of your covenant. 15 And did not he make one?
Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And why one? That he
might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit,
and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his
youth. 16 For the LORD, the God of Israel, said that he
hates putting away: for one covers violence with his
garment, said the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your
spirit, that you deal not treacherously.
3:5 And I
will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift
witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers,
and against false swearers, and against those that oppress
the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless,
and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear
not me, said the LORD of hosts.
Marriage
1 Cor 7:29 But this I say, brothers,
the time is short: it remains, that both they that have
wives be as though they had none; 30 And they that weep,
as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though
they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they
possessed not; 31 And they that use this world, as not
abusing it: for the fashion of this world passes away. 32
But I would have you without carefulness. He that is
unmarried cares for the things that belong to the Lord, how
he may please the Lord: 33 But he that is married cares
for the things that are of the world, how he may please his
wife. 34 There is difference also between a wife and a
virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the
Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but
she that is married cares for the things of the world, how
she may please her husband. 35 And this I speak for your
own profit; not that I may cast a snare on you, but for that
which is comely, and that you may attend on the Lord without
distraction.
11:3 But I would have you know, that the
head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is
the man; and the head of Christ is God.
14:33 For God
is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all
churches of the saints. 34 Let your women keep silence in
the churches: for it is not permitted to them to speak; but
they are commanded to be under obedience as also said the
law. 35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask
their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak
in the church. 36 What? came the word of God out from
you? or came it to you only? 37 If any man think himself
to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the
things that I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.
38 But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.
Eph 5:22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own
husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head
of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and
he is the savior of the body. 24 Therefore as the church
is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own
husbands in every thing. 25 Husbands, love your wives,
even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for
it; 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the
washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it
to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle,
or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without
blemish. 28 So ought men to love their wives as their own
bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no
man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourishes and
cherishes it, even as the Lord the church: 30 For we are
members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. 31
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and
shall be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one
flesh. 32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning
Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless let every one of
you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the
wife see that she reverence her husband.
Col
3:18 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as it is
fit in the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not
bitter against them.
1 Tim 2:11 Let the woman
learn in silence with all subjection. 12 But I suffer not
a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but
to be in silence. 13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived
was in the transgression. 15 Notwithstanding she shall be
saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity
and holiness with sobriety.
Tit 2:1 But speak
you the things which become sound doctrine: 2 That the
aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in
charity, in patience. 3 The aged women likewise, that
they be in behavior as becomes holiness, not false accusers,
not given to much wine, teachers of good things; 4 That
they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their
husbands, to love their children, 5 To be discreet,
chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own
husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. 6 Young
men likewise exhort to be sober minded.
1 Pe
3:1 Likewise, you wives, be in subjection to your own
husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may
without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
2 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with
fear. 3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward
adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of
putting on of apparel; 4 But let it be the hidden man of
the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the
ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight
of God of great price. 5 For after this manner in the old
time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned
themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands: 6
Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose
daughters you are, as long as you do well, and are not
afraid with any amazement. 7 Likewise, you husbands,
dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor to the
wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together
of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
Gen 3:16 To the woman he said, I will greatly
multiply your sorrow and your conception; in sorrow you
shall bring forth children; and your desire shall be to your
husband, and he shall rule over you.
18:11 Now
Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it
ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. 12
Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am
waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
21:12 And God said to Abraham, Let it not be grievous in
your sight because of the lad, and because of your female
slave; in all that Sarah has said to you, listen to her
voice; for in Isaac shall your seed be called.
24:67
And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took
Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and
Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
Num
30:6 And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or
uttered ought out of her lips, with which she bound her
soul; 7 And her husband heard it, and held his peace at
her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand,
and her bonds with which she bound her soul shall stand.
8 But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard
it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that
which she uttered with her lips, with which she bound her
soul, of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her. 9
But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, with
which they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.
10 And if she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound her
soul by a bond with an oath; 11 And her husband heard it,
and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not: then all
her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she bound
her soul shall stand. 12 But if her husband has utterly
made them void on the day he heard them; then whatever
proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning
the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband has made
them void; and the LORD shall forgive her. 13 Every vow,
and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may
establish it, or her husband may make it void.
Est
1:15 What shall we do to the queen Vashti according to law,
because she has not performed the commandment of the king
Ahasuerus by the chamberlains? 16 And Memucan answered
before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen has not
done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes,
and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the
king Ahasuerus. 17 For this deed of the queen shall come
abroad to all women, so that they shall despise their
husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king
Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before
him, but she came not. 18 Likewise shall the ladies of
Persia and Media say this day to all the king’s princes,
which have heard of the deed of the queen. Thus shall there
arise too much contempt and wrath. 19 If it please the
king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it
be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes,
that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king
Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another
that is better than she. 20 And when the king’s decree
which he shall make shall be published throughout all his
empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their
husbands honor, both to great and small. 21 And the
saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did
according to the word of Memucan: 22 For he sent letters
into all the king’s provinces, into every province according
to the writing thereof, and to every people after their
language, that every man should bear rule in his own house,
and that it should be published according to the language of
every people.
Pr 5:18 Let your fountain be
blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth. 19 Let
her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts
satisfy you at all times; and be you ravished always with
her love. 20 And why will you, my son, be ravished with a
strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
12:4 A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she
that makes ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
14:1 Every wise woman builds her house: but the foolish
plucks it down with her hands.
21:9 It is better to
dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling
woman in a wide house. 19 It is better to dwell in the
wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
25:24 It is better to dwell in the corner of the
housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
27:15 A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a
contentious woman are alike.
31:10 Who can find a
virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. 11 The
heart of her husband does safely trust in her, so that he
shall have no need of spoil. 12 She will do him good and
not evil all the days of her life. 13 She seeks wool, and
flax, and works willingly with her hands. 14 She is like
the merchants’ ships; she brings her food from afar. 15
She rises also while it is yet night, and gives meat to her
household, and a portion to her maidens. 16 She considers
a field, and buys it: with the fruit of her hands she plants
a vineyard. 17 She girds her loins with strength, and
strengthens her arms. 18 She perceives that her
merchandise is good: her candle goes not out by night. 19
She lays her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the
distaff. 20 She stretches out her hand to the poor; yes,
she reaches forth her hands to the needy. 21 She is not
afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household
are clothed with scarlet. 22 She makes herself coverings
of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple. 23 Her
husband is known in the gates, when he sits among the elders
of the land. 24 She makes fine linen, and sells it; and
delivers girdles to the merchant. 25 Strength and honor
are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.
26 She opens her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the
law of kindness. 27 She looks well to the ways of her
household, and eats not the bread of idleness. 28 Her
children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also,
and he praises her. 29 Many daughters have done
virtuously, but you excel them all. 30 Favor is
deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that fears the
LORD, she shall be praised. 31 Give her of the fruit of
her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Ec 9:9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love
all the days of the life of your vanity, which he has given
you under the sun, all the days of your vanity: for that is
your portion in this life, and in your labor which you take
under the sun.
Getting married
Mt 19:10 His disciples say to him, If
the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to
marry. 11 But he said to them, All men cannot receive
this saying, save they to whom it is given. 12 For there
are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother’s
womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of
men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves
eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to
receive it, let him receive it.
1 Cor 7:1 Now
concerning the things whereof you wrote to me: It is good
for a man not to touch a woman. 2 Nevertheless, to avoid
fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every
woman have her own husband.
7:7 For I would that all
men were even as I myself. But every man has his proper gift
of God, one after this manner, and another after that. 8
I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for
them if they abide even as I. 9 But if they cannot
contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to
burn.
7:25 Now concerning virgins I have no
commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that
has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful. 26 I
suppose therefore that this is good for the present
distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be. 27
Are you bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed. Are you
loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. 28 But and if you
marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has
not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the
flesh: but I spare you.
7:32 But I would have you
without carefulness. He that is unmarried cares for the
things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
33 But he that is married cares for the things that are of
the world, how he may please his wife. 34 There is
difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried
woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy
both in body and in spirit: but she that is married cares
for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
35 And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast
a snare on you, but for that which is comely, and that you
may attend on the Lord without distraction.
7:36 But
if any man think that he behaves himself uncomely toward his
virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so
require, let him do what he will, he sins not: let them
marry. 37 Nevertheless he that stands steadfast in his
heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own will,
and has so decreed in his heart that he will keep his
virgin, does well. 38 So then he that gives her in
marriage does well; but he that gives her not in marriage
does better. 39 The wife is bound by the law as long as
her husband lives; but if her husband be dead, she is at
liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
40 But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment:
and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.
9:5
Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as
other apostles, and as the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
2 Cor 6:14 Be you not unequally yoked together
with unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with
unrighteousness? and what communion has light with darkness?
15 And what concord has Christ with Belial? or what part has
he that believes with an infidel? 16 And what agreement
has the temple of God with idols? for you are the temple of
the living God; as God has said, I will dwell in them, and
walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my
people. 17 Why come out from among them, and be you
separate, said the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing;
and I will receive you. 18 And will be a Father to you,
and you shall be my sons and daughters, said the Lord
Almighty.
1 Th 4:3 For this is the will of
God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from
fornication: 4 That every one of you should know how to
possess his vessel in sanctification and honor; 5 Not in
the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know
not God:
1 Tim 4:1 Now the Spirit speaks
expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from
the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of
devils; 2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their
conscience seared with a hot iron; 3 Forbidding to marry,
and commanding to abstain from meats, which God has created
to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and
know the truth. 4 For every creature of God is good, and
nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
5:11 But the younger widows refuse: for when they have
begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry; 12
Having damnation, because they have cast off their first
faith. 13 And with they learn to be idle, wandering about
from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also
and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. 14
I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear
children, guide the house, give none occasion to the
adversary to speak reproachfully. 15 For some are already
turned aside after Satan.
Gen 2:18 And the
LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone;
I will make him an help meet for him. 19 And out of the
ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and
every fowl of the air; and brought them to Adam to see what
he would call them: and whatever Adam called every living
creature, that was the name thereof. 20 And Adam gave
names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to
every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found
an help meet for him. 21 And the LORD God caused a deep
sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his
ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 22 And the
rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman,
and brought her to the man. 23 And Adam said, This is now
bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called
Woman, because she was taken out of Man. 24 Therefore
shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall join
to his wife: and they shall be one flesh. 25 And they
were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
3:16 To the woman he said, I will greatly multiply your
sorrow and your conception; in sorrow you shall bring forth
children; and your desire shall be to your husband, and he
shall rule over you.
21:20 And God was with the lad;
and he grew, and dwelled in the wilderness, and became an
archer. 21 And he dwelled in the wilderness of Paran: and
his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
24:1 And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the
LORD had blessed Abraham in all things. 2 And Abraham
said to his oldest servant of his house, that ruled over all
that he had, Put, I pray you, your hand under my thigh: 3
And I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven,
and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife to
my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I
dwell: 4 But you shall go to my country, and to my
kindred, and take a wife to my son Isaac.
24:6 And
Abraham said to him, Beware you that you bring not my son
thither again. 7 The LORD God of heaven, which took me
from my father’s house, and from the land of my kindred, and
which spoke to me, and that swore to me, saying, To your
seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before
you, and you shall take a wife to my son from there.
24:10 And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his
master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were
in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the
city of Nahor. 11 And he made his camels to kneel down
without the city by a well of water at the time of the
evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.
12 And he said O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray you,
send me good speed this day, and show kindness to my master
Abraham. 13 Behold, I stand here by the well of water;
and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw
water: 14 And let it come to pass, that the damsel to
whom I shall say, Let down your pitcher, I pray you, that I
may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give your
camels drink also: let the same be she that you have
appointed for your servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know
that you have showed kindness to my master. 15 And it
came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold,
Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah,
the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher on
her shoulder. 16 And the damsel was very fair to look on,
a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down
to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.
29:18 And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve you
seven years for Rachel your younger daughter. 19 And
Laban said, It is better that I give her to you, than that I
should give her to another man: abide with me. 20 And
Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed to him
but a few days, for the love he had to her. 21 And Jacob
said to Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled,
that I may go in to her.
Ex 22:16 And if a man
entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he
shall surely endow her to be his wife. 17 If her father
utterly refuse to give her to him, he shall pay money
according to the dowry of virgins.
De 7:3
Neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter
you shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall you
take to your son. 4 For they will turn away your son from
following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the
anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy you
suddenly.
20:7 And what man is there that has
betrothed a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and
return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another
man take her.
24:5 When a man has taken a new wife,
he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with
any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and
shall cheer up his wife which he has taken.
Judges
3:5 And the children of Israel dwelled among the Canaanites,
Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and
Jebusites: 6 And they took their daughters to be their
wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served
their gods. 7 And the children of Israel did evil in the
sight of the LORD, and forgot the LORD their God, and served
Baalim and the groves.
Neh 13:26 Did not
Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many
nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his
God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless
even him did outlandish women cause to sin. 27 Shall we
then listen to you to do all this great evil, to transgress
against our God in marrying strange wives?
Pr
18:22 Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains
favor of the LORD.
19:14 House and riches are the
inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
24:27 Prepare your work without, and make it fit for
yourself in the field; and afterwards build your house.
31:10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is
far above rubies.
Ec 4:9 Two are better than
one; because they have a good reward for their labor. 10
For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe
to him that is alone when he falls; for he has not another
to help him up. 11 Again, if two lie together, then they
have heat: but how can one be warm alone? 12 And if one
prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a
threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Song 2:5
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick
of love. 6 His left hand is under my head, and his right
hand does embrace me. 7 I charge you, O you daughters of
Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that
you stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
Isa 62:4 You shall no more be termed Forsaken;
neither shall your land any more be termed Desolate: but you
shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah: for the
LORD delights in you, and your land shall be married. 5
For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons
marry you: and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so
shall your God rejoice over you.
Am 3:3 Can
two walk together, except they be agreed?
Authority
Mt 17:24 And when they were come to
Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter,
and said, Does not your master pay tribute? 25 He said,
Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented
him, saying, What think you, Simon? of whom do the kings of
the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or
of strangers? 26 Peter said to him, Of strangers. Jesus
said to him, Then are the children free. 27
Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go you to the
sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first comes
up; and when you have opened his mouth, you shall find a
piece of money: that take, and give to them for me and you.
22:15 Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they
might entangle him in his talk. 16 And they sent out to
him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we
know that you are true, and teach the way of God in truth,
neither care you for any man: for you regard not the person
of men. 17 Tell us therefore, What think you? Is it
lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not? 18 But Jesus
perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt you me, you
hypocrites? 19 Show me the tribute money. And they
brought to him a penny. 20 And he said to them, Whose is
this image and superscription? 21 They say to him,
Caesar’s. Then said he to them, Render therefore to Caesar
the things which are Caesar’s; and to God the things that
are God’s. 22 When they had heard these words, they
marveled, and left him, and went their way.
26:51
And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out
his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the
high priest’s, and smote off his ear. 52 Then said Jesus
to him, Put up again your sword into his place: for all they
that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
Lu 3:10 And the people asked him, saying, What shall we
do then? 11 He answers and said to them, He that has two
coats, let him impart to him that has none; and he that has
meat, let him do likewise. 12 Then came also publicans to
be baptized, and said to him, Master, what shall we do?
13 And he said to them, Exact no more than that which is
appointed you. 14 And the soldiers likewise demanded of
him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said to them, Do
violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be
content with your wages.
Joh 19:10 Then said
Pilate to him, Speak you not to me? know you not that I have
power to crucify you, and have power to release you? 11
Jesus answered, You could have no power at all against me,
except it were given you from above: therefore he that
delivered me to you has the greater sin.
Acts
4:18 And they called them, and commanded them not to speak
at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. 19 But Peter and
John answered and said to them, Whether it be right in the
sight of God to listen to you more than to God, judge you.
20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and
heard.
5:27 And when they had brought them, they set
them before the council: and the high priest asked them,
28 Saying, Did not we straightly command you that you should
not teach in this name? and, behold, you have filled
Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man’s
blood on us. 29 Then Peter and the other apostles
answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
23:4 And they that stood by said, Revile you God’s high
priest? 5 Then said Paul, I knew not, brothers, that he
was the high priest: for it is written, You shall not speak
evil of the ruler of your people.
Rom 13:1 Let
every soul be subject to the higher powers. For there is no
power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
2 Whoever therefore resists the power, resists the ordinance
of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves
damnation. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good works,
but to the evil. Will you then not be afraid of the power?
do that which is good, and you shall have praise of the
same: 4 For he is the minister of God to you for good.
But if you do that which is evil, be afraid; for he bears
not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a
revenger to execute wrath on him that does evil. 5 Why
you must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for
conscience sake. 6 For for this cause pay you tribute
also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually on
this very thing. 7 Render therefore to all their dues:
tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear
to whom fear; honor to whom honor.
Eph 4:28
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor,
working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may
have to give to him that needs.
1 Th 4:11 And
that you study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and
to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; 12 That
you may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that
you may have lack of nothing.
2 Th 3:7 For
yourselves know how you ought to follow us: for we behaved
not ourselves disorderly among you; 8 Neither did we eat
any man’s bread for nothing; but worked with labor and
travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to
any of you: 9 Not because we have not power, but to make
ourselves an ensample to you to follow us. 10 For even
when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any
would not work, neither should he eat. 11 For we hear
that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working
not at all, but are busybodies. 12 Now them that are such
we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with
quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
1
Tim 2:1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all,
supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks,
be made for all men; 2 For kings, and for all that are in
authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in
all godliness and honesty.
Tit 3:1 Put them in
mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey
magistrates, to be ready to every good work, 2 To speak
evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, showing all
meekness to all men.
1 Pe 2:13 Submit
yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake:
whether it be to the king, as supreme; 14 Or to
governors, as to them that are sent by him for the
punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do
well. 15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing
you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: 16
As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of
maliciousness, but as the servants of God. 17 Honor all
men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
Gen 14:14 And when Abram heard that his brother was
taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his
own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them to
Dan. 15 And he divided himself against them, he and his
servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them to
Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. 16 And he
brought back all the goods, and also brought again his
brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the
people.
Ex 22:28 You shall not revile the
gods, nor curse the ruler of your people.
De
27:17 Cursed be he that removes his neighbor’s landmark. And
all the people shall say, Amen.
1 Sam 17:25
And the men of Israel said, Have you seen this man that is
come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall
be, that the man who kills him, the king will enrich him
with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make
his father’s house free in Israel.
2 Sam 20:23
Now Joab was over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the
son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the
Pelethites: 24 And Adoram was over the tribute: and
Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder:
2 Ch
24:8 And at the king’s commandment they made a chest, and
set it without at the gate of the house of the LORD. 9
And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to
bring in to the LORD the collection that Moses the servant
of God laid on Israel in the wilderness. 10 And all the
princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and
cast into the chest, until they had made an end.
Ezr 6:10 That they may offer sacrifices of sweet smells
to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and
of his sons.
Neh 4:13 Therefore set I in the
lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I
even set the people after their families with their swords,
their spears, and their bows. 14 And I looked, and rose
up, and said to the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the
rest of the people, Be not you afraid of them: remember the
LORD, which is great and terrible, and fight for your
brothers, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and
your houses. 15 And it came to pass, when our enemies
heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their
counsel to nothing, that we returned all of us to the wall,
every one to his work. 16 And it came to pass from that
time forth, that the half of my servants worked in the work,
and the other half of them held both the spears, the
shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers
were behind all the house of Judah. 17 They which built
on the wall, and they that bore burdens, with those that
laded, every one with one of his hands worked in the work,
and with the other hand held a weapon.
Pr
17:11 An evil man seeks only rebellion: therefore a cruel
messenger shall be sent against him.
20:2 The fear of
a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoever provokes him to
anger sins against his own soul.
22:28 Remove not the
ancient landmark, which your fathers have set.
24:21
My son, fear you the LORD and the king: and meddle not with
them that are given to change: 22 For their calamity
shall rise suddenly; and who knows the ruin of them both?
28:4 They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but
such as keep the law contend with them.
29:4 The king
by judgment establishes the land: but he that receives gifts
overthrows it.
Ec 8:2 I counsel you to keep
the king’s commandment, and that in regard of the oath of
God. 3 Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in
an evil thing; for he does whatever pleases him. 4 Where
the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say to
him, What do you?
10:20 Curse not the king, no not in
your thought; and curse not the rich in your bedchamber: for
a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which has
wings shall tell the matter.
Jer 29:7 And seek
the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried
away captives, and pray to the LORD for it: for in the peace
thereof shall you have peace.
Raising children
Mr 10:13 And they brought young
children to him, that he should touch them: and his
disciples rebuked those that brought them. 14 But when
Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said to them,
Suffer the little children to come to me, and forbid them
not: for of such is the kingdom of God. 15 Truly I say to
you, Whoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a
little child, he shall not enter therein. 16 And he took
them up in his arms, put his hands on them, and blessed
them.
Lu 1:43 And what is this to me, that the
mother of my Lord should come to me? 44 For, see, as soon
as the voice of your salutation sounded in my ears, the babe
leaped in my womb for joy.
2 Cor 12:14 Behold,
the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be
burdensome to you: for I seek not your’s but you: for the
children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the
parents for the children. 15 And I will very gladly spend
and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you,
the less I be loved.
Eph 6:4 And, you fathers,
provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the
nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Col 3:21
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be
discouraged.
1 Th 2:5 For neither at any time
used we flattering words, as you know, nor a cloak of
covetousness; God is witness: 6 Nor of men sought we
glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have
been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ. 7 But we were
gentle among you, even as a nurse cherishes her children:
8 So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing
to have imparted to you, not the gospel of God only, but
also our own souls, because you were dear to us.
2:10
You are witnesses, and God also, how piously and justly and
blamelessly we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
11 As you know how we exhorted and comforted and charged
every one of you, as a father does his children, 12 That
you would walk worthy of God, who has called you to his
kingdom and glory.
1 Tim 3:1 This is a true
saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desires a
good work. 2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband
of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to
hospitality, apt to teach; 3 Not given to wine, no
striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a
brawler, not covetous; 4 One that rules well his own
house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how
shall he take care of the church of God?)
3:12 Let
the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their
children and their own houses well.
5:8 But if any
provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own
house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an
infidel.
Tit 1:5 For this cause left I you in
Crete, that you should set in order the things that are
wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed
you: 6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife,
having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
2:1 But speak you the things which become sound
doctrine: 2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate,
sound in faith, in charity, in patience. 3 The aged women
likewise, that they be in behavior as becomes holiness, not
false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good
things; 4 That they may teach the young women to be
sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, 5
To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to
their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Heb 12:7 If you endure chastening, God deals with
you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father
chastens not? 8 But if you be without chastisement,
whereof all are partakers, then are you bastards, and not
sons. 9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh
which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not
much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and
live? 10 For they truly for a few days chastened us after
their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be
partakers of his holiness.
Gen 18:17 And the
LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;
18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and
mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be
blessed in him? 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 on Abraham that which he has spoken of
him.
33:4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him,
and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept. 5
And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the
children; and said, Who are those with you? And he said, The
children which God has graciously given your servant.
De 4:8 And what nation is there so great, that
has statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law,
which I set before you this day? 9 Only take heed to
yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the
things which your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from
your heart all the days of your life: but teach them your
sons, and your sons’ sons; 10 Specially the day that you
stood before the LORD your God in Horeb, when the LORD said
to me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them
hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days
that they shall live on the earth, and that they may teach
their children.
6:6 And these words, which I command
you this day, shall be in your heart: 7 And you shall
teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of
them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the
way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
8:5
You shall also consider in your heart, that, as a man
chastens his son, so the LORD your God chastens you.
1 Sam 1:26 And she said, Oh my lord, as your soul
lives, my lord, I am the woman that stood by you here,
praying to the LORD. 27 For this child I prayed; and the
LORD has given me my petition which I asked of him: 28
Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he
lives he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshipped the
LORD there.
3:11 And the LORD said to Samuel, Behold,
I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every
one that hears it shall tingle. 12 In that day I will
perform against Eli all things which I have spoken
concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end.
13 For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever
for the iniquity which he knows; because his sons made
themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
Ps
37:25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen
the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. 26 He
is ever merciful, and lends; and his seed is blessed.
78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter
dark sayings of old: 3 Which we have heard and known, and
our fathers have told us. 4 We will not hide them from
their children, showing to the generation to come the
praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful
works that he has done. 5 For he established a testimony
in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded
our fathers, that they should make them known to their
children: 6 That the generation to come might know them,
even the children which should be born; who should arise and
declare them to their children: 7 That they might set
their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep
his commandments: 8 And might not be as their fathers, a
stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set
not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast
with God.
102:28 The children of your servants shall
continue, and their seed shall be established before you.
127:3 See, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the
fruit of the womb is his reward. 4 As arrows are in the
hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. 5
Happy is the man that has his quiver full of them: they
shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies
in the gate.
Pr 10:1 The proverbs of Solomon.
A wise son makes a glad father: but a foolish son is the
heaviness of his mother.
11:21 Though hand join in
hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of
the righteous shall be delivered.
13:1 A wise son
hears his father’s instruction: but a scorner hears not
rebuke.
13:24 He that spares his rod hates his son:
but he that loves him chastens him betimes.
14:26 In
the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children
shall have a place of refuge.
15:5 A fool despises
his father’s instruction: but he that regards reproof is
prudent.
17:6 Children’s children are the crown of
old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
19:18 Chasten your son while there is hope, and let not
your soul spare for his crying.
20:7 The just man
walks in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
20:11 Even a child is known by his doings, whether his
work be pure, and whether it be right.
22:6 Train up
a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will
not depart from it.
22:15 Foolishness is bound in the
heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it
far from him.
23:13 Withhold not correction from the
child: for if you beat him with the rod, he shall not die.
14 You shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his
soul from hell.
29:15 The rod and reproof give
wisdom: but a child left to himself brings his mother to
shame. 17 Correct your son, and he shall give you rest;
yes, he shall give delight to your soul.
Isa
49:25 But thus said the LORD, Even the captives of the
mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible
shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that
contends with you, and I will save your children.
54:13 And all your children shall be taught of the LORD; and
great shall be the peace of your children.
66:12 For
thus said the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like
a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing
stream: then shall you suck, you shall be borne on her
sides, and be dandled on her knees. 13 As one whom his
mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and you shall be
comforted in Jerusalem.
Right/wrong in society
Rom 13:3 For
rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Will
you then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good,
and you shall have praise of the same: 4 For he is the
minister of God to you for good. But if you do that which is
evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword in vain: for he
is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath on him
that does evil.
2 Cor 13:1 This is the third
time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three
witnesses shall every word be established.
Ex
21:12 He that smites a man, so that he die, shall be surely
put to death. 13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God
deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint you a place
where he shall flee.
22:2 If a thief be found
breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no
blood be shed for him.
23:1 You shall not raise a
false report: put not your hand with the wicked to be an
unrighteous witness. 2 You shall not follow a multitude
to do evil; neither shall you speak in a cause to decline
after many to wrest judgment: 3 Neither shall you
countenance a poor man in his cause.
23:6 You shall
not wrest the judgment of your poor in his cause. 7 Keep
you far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous
slay you not: for I will not justify the wicked. 8 And
you shall take no gift: for the gift blinds the wise, and
perverts the words of the righteous.
Lev 19:15
You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: you shall not
respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the
mighty: but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
19:35 You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in
length, in weight, or in measure.
Num 35:9 And
the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 10 Speak to the children
of Israel, and say to them, When you be come over Jordan
into the land of Canaan; 11 Then you shall appoint you
cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may
flee thither, which kills any person at unawares. 15
These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of
Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among
them: that every one that kills any person unawares may flee
thither. 16 And if he smite him with an instrument of
iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall
surely be put to death. 17 And if he smite him with
throwing a stone, with which he may die, and he die, he is a
murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. 22
But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast
on him any thing without laying of wait,
De
1:15 So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and
known, and made them heads over you, captains over
thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over
fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your
tribes. 16 And I charged your judges at that time,
saying, Hear the causes between your brothers, and judge
righteously between every man and his brother, and the
stranger that is with him. 17 You shall not respect
persons in judgment; but you shall hear the small as well as
the great; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for
the judgment is God’s: and the cause that is too hard for
you, bring it to me, and I will hear it.
16:18 Judges
and officers shall you make you in all your gates, which the
LORD your God gives you, throughout your tribes: and they
shall judge the people with just judgment. 19 You shall
not wrest judgment; you shall not respect persons, neither
take a gift: for a gift does blind the eyes of the wise, and
pervert the words of the righteous.
19:15 One witness
shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any
sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses,
or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be
established. 16 If a false witness rise up against any
man to testify against him that which is wrong; 17 Then
both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand
before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which
shall be in those days;
1 Sam 8:3 And his sons
walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and
took bribes, and perverted judgment. 4 Then all the
elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to
Samuel to Ramah, 5 And said to him, Behold, you are old,
and your sons walk not in your ways: now make us a king to
judge us like all the nations. 6 But the thing displeased
Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And
Samuel prayed to the LORD. 7 And the LORD said to Samuel,
Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to
you: for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected
me, that I should not reign over them.
2 Sam
8:15 And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed
judgment and justice to all his people.
1 Ki
3:9 Give therefore your servant an understanding heart to
judge your people, that I may discern between good and bad:
for who is able to judge this your so great a people?
2 Ch 19:6 And said to the judges, Take heed what
you do: for you judge not for man, but for the LORD, who is
with you in the judgment. 7 Why now let the fear of the
LORD be on you; take heed and do it: for there is no
iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor
taking of gifts.
Ezr 7:25 And you, Ezra, after
the wisdom of your God, that is in your hand, set
magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that
are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of your God;
and teach you them that know them not.
Job
34:17 Shall even he that hates right govern? and will you
condemn him that is most just?
34:30 That the
hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.
Ps 2:10 Be wise now therefore, O you kings: be
instructed, you judges of the earth. 11 Serve the LORD
with fear, and rejoice with trembling. 12 Kiss the Son,
lest he be angry, and you perish from the way, when his
wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put
their trust in him.
21:7 For the king trusts in the
LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be
moved.
94:20 Shall the throne of iniquity have
fellowship with you, which frames mischief by a law? 21
They gather themselves together against the soul of the
righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
99:4 The
king’s strength also loves judgment; you do establish
equity, you execute judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
Pr 11:1 A false balance is abomination to the
LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
11:10 When it
goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices: and when
the wicked perish, there is shouting.
12:17 He that
speaks truth shows forth righteousness: but a false witness
deceit.
13:23 Much food is in the tillage of the
poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
14:5 A faithful witness will not lie: but a false
witness will utter lies.
14:28 In the multitude of
people is the king’s honor: but in the want of people is the
destruction of the prince.
16:10 A divine sentence is
in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresses not in
judgment. 11 A just weight and balance are the LORD’s:
all the weights of the bag are his work. 12 It is an
abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is
established by righteousness. 13 Righteous lips are the
delight of kings; and they love him that speaks right. 14
The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise
man will pacify it. 15 In the light of the king’s
countenance is life; and his favor is as a cloud of the
latter rain.
17:7 Excellent speech becomes not a
fool: much less do lying lips a prince.
17:15 He that
justifies the wicked, and he that comdemns the just, even
they both are abomination to the LORD.
17:23 A wicked
man takes a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of
judgment.
17:26 Also to punish the just is not good,
nor to strike princes for equity.
18:5 It is not good
to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the
righteous in judgment.
19:5 A false witness shall not
be unpunished, and he that speaks lies shall not escape.
9 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that
speaks lies shall perish.
19:12 The king’s wrath is
as the roaring of a lion; but his favor is as dew on the
grass.
19:28 An ungodly witness scorns judgment: and
the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.
20:8 A king
that sits in the throne of judgment scatters away all evil
with his eyes.
20:10 Divers weights, and divers
measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
23 Divers weights are an abomination to the LORD; and a
false balance is not good.
20:28 Mercy and truth
preserve the king: and his throne is upheld by mercy.
21:7 The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them;
because they refuse to do judgment. 8 The way of man is
fraudulent and strange: but as for the pure, his work is
right.
21:15 It is joy to the just to do judgment:
but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
21:28 A false witness shall perish: but the man that hears
speaks constantly.
22:22 Rob not the poor, because he
is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: 23
For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of
those that spoiled them.
23:1 When you sit to eat
with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you: 2
And put a knife to your throat, if you be a man given to
appetite. 3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are
deceitful meat.
24:23 These things also belong to the
wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
24 He that said to the wicked, You are righteous; him shall
the people curse, nations shall abhor him: 25 But to them
that rebuke him shall be delight, and a good blessing shall
come on them.
24:28 Be not a witness against your
neighbor without cause; and deceive not with your lips.
25:5 Take away the wicked from before the king, and his
throne shall be established in righteousness.
25:15
By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue
breaks the bone.
25:18 A man that bears false witness
against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp
arrow.
28:2 For the transgression of a land many are
the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and
knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged.
28:12
When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but
when the wicked rise, a man is hidden. 28 When the wicked
rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the
righteous increase.
28:15 As a roaring lion, and a
ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
16 The prince that wants understanding is also a great
oppressor: but he that hates covetousness shall prolong his
days.
29:2 When the righteous are in authority, the
people rejoice: but when the wicked bears rule, the people
mourn.
29:4 The king by judgment establishes the
land: but he that receives gifts overthrows it.
29:12
If a ruler listen to lies, all his servants are wicked.
14 The king that faithfully judges the poor, his throne
shall be established for ever.
29:16 When the wicked
are multiplied, transgression increases: but the righteous
shall see their fall.
29:26 Many seek the ruler’s
favor; but every man’s judgment comes from the LORD.
30:29 There be three things which go well, yes, four are
comely in going: 30 A lion which is strongest among
beasts, and turns not away for any; 31 A greyhound; an he
goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up.
31:1 The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his
mother taught him. 2 What, my son? and what, the son of
my womb? and what, the son of my vows? 3 Give not your
strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys
kings. 4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for
kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: 5 Lest
they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of
any of the afflicted.
31:8 Open your mouth for the
dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to
destruction. 9 Open your mouth, judge righteously, and
plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Ec 3:6
And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that
wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that
iniquity was there.
4:13 Better is a poor and a wise
child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be
admonished.
5:8 If you see the oppression of the
poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a
province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher
than the highest regards; and there be higher than they.
10:4 If the spirit of the ruler rise up against you,
leave not your place; for yielding pacifies great offenses.
5 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an
error which proceeds from the ruler: 6 Folly is set in
great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. 7 I have
seen servants on horses, and princes walking as servants on
the earth.
10:16 Woe to you, O land, when your king
is a child, and your princes eat in the morning! 17
Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of
nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength,
and not for drunkenness!
Isa 1:17 Learn to do
well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the
fatherless, plead for the widow.
1:23 Your princes
are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loves
gifts, and follows after rewards: they judge not the
fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to
them.
3:12 As for my people, children are their
oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they
which lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your
paths.
5:7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is
the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant
plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression;
for righteousness, but behold a cry.
5:22 Woe to them
that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle
strong drink: 23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and
take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
9:16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err;
and they that are led of them are destroyed.
10:1 Woe
to them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write
grievousness which they have prescribed; 2 To turn aside
the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the
poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that
they may rob the fatherless! 3 And what will you do in
the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall
come from far? to whom will you flee for help? and where
will you leave your glory?
59:14 And judgment is
turned away backward, and justice stands afar off: for truth
is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. 15 Yes,
truth fails; and he that departs from evil makes himself a
prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there
was no judgment.
61:8 For I the LORD love judgment, I
hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their
work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with
them.
Jer 7:4 Trust you not in lying words,
saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The
temple of the LORD, are these. 5 For if you thoroughly
amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute
judgment between a man and his neighbor; 6 If you oppress
not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed
not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other
gods to your hurt: 7 Then will I cause you to dwell in
this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for
ever and ever.
21:12 O house of David, thus said the
LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that
is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go
out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of
the evil of your doings.
22:15 Shall you reign,
because you close yourself in cedar? did not your father eat
and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well
with him? 16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy;
then it was well with him: was not this to know me? said the
LORD.
Lam 3:35 To turn aside the right of a
man before the face of the most High, 36 To subvert a man
in his cause, the LORD approves not.
Eze 9:9
Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and
Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and
the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD has
forsaken the earth, and the LORD sees not.
Am
5:10 They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor
him that speaks uprightly. 11 For as much therefore as
your treading is on the poor, and you take from him burdens
of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall
not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but
you shall not drink wine of them. 12 For I know your
manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict
the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in
the gate from their right. 13 Therefore the prudent shall
keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time. 14
Seek good, and not evil, that you may live: and so the LORD,
the God of hosts, shall be with you, as you have spoken.
15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment
in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be
gracious to the remnant of Joseph. 24 But let judgment
run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Hab 1:1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did
see. 2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and you will not
hear! even cry out to you of violence, and you will not
save! 3 Why do you show me iniquity, and cause me to
behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me:
and there are that raise up strife and contention. 4
Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment does never go
forth: for the wicked does compass about the righteous;
therefore wrong judgment proceeds.
Servants masters employers
Mt 24:45 Who then
is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has made ruler
over his household, to give them meat in due season? 46
Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he comes shall
find so doing. 47 Truly I say to you, That he shall make
him ruler over all his goods. 48 But and if that evil
servant shall say in his heart, My lord delays his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellow servants, and to eat
and drink with the drunken; 50 The lord of that servant
shall come in a day when he looks not for him, and in an
hour that he is not aware of, 51 And shall cut him
asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites:
there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Lu
19:15 And it came to pass, that when he was returned, having
received the kingdom, then he commanded these servants to be
called to him, to whom he had given the money, that he might
know how much every man had gained by trading. 16 Then
came the first, saying, Lord, your pound has gained ten
pounds. 17 And he said to him, Well, you good servant:
because you have been faithful in a very little, have you
authority over ten cities. 18 And the second came,
saying, Lord, your pound has gained five pounds.
1
Cor 4:1 Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers
of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. 2
Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found
faithful.
7:20 Let every man abide in the same
calling wherein he was called. 21 Are you called being a
servant? care not for it: but if you may be made free, use
it rather. 22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a
servant, is the Lord’s freeman: likewise also he that is
called, being free, is Christ’s servant. 23 You are
bought with a price; be not you the servants of men. 24
Brothers, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide
with God.
Eph 6:5 Servants, be obedient to
them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear
and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;
6 Not with eye-service, as men pleasers; but as the servants
of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; 7 With
good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:
8 Knowing that whatever good thing any man does, the same
shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
9 And, you masters, do the same things to them, forbearing
threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven;
neither is there respect of persons with him.
Col
3:22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to
the flesh; not with eye-service, as men pleasers; but in
singleness of heart, fearing God; 23 And whatever you do,
do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not to men; 24
Knowing that of the Lord you shall receive the reward of the
inheritance: for you serve the Lord Christ. 25 But he
that does wrong shall receive for the wrong which he has
done: and there is no respect of persons.
4:1
Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal;
knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
1
Tim 6:1 Let as many servants as are under the yoke count
their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God
and his doctrine be not blasphemed. 2 And they that have
believing masters, let them not despise them, because they
are brothers; but rather do them service, because they are
faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things
teach and exhort.
Tit 2:9 Exhort servants to
be obedient to their own masters, and to please them well in
all things; not answering again; 10 Not purloining, but
showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine
of God our Savior in all things.
Jas 5:1 Go to
now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that
shall come on you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your
garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver is
corroded; and the rust of them shall be a witness against
you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. You have
heaped treasure together for the last days. 4 Behold, the
hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which
is of you kept back by fraud, cries: and the cries of them
which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of
sabaoth. 5 You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and
been wanton; you have nourished your hearts, as in a day of
slaughter. 6 You have condemned and killed the just; and
he does not resist you.
1 Pe 2:18 Servants, be
subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good
and gentle, but also to the fraudulent. 19 For this is
thank worthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure
grief, suffering wrongfully. 20 For what glory is it, if,
when you be buffeted for your faults, you shall take it
patiently? but if, when you do well, and suffer for it, you
take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. 21 For
even hereunto were you called: because Christ also suffered
for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow his
steps:
Gen 24:1 And Abraham was old, and well
stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all
things. 2 And Abraham said to his oldest servant of his
house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray you,
your hand under my thigh:
39:2 And the LORD was with
Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house
of his master the Egyptian. 3 And his master saw that the
LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to
prosper in his hand. 4 And Joseph found grace in his
sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his
house, and all that he had he put into his hand. 5 And it
came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in
his house, and over all that he had, that the LORD blessed
the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake; and the blessing of
the LORD was on all that he had in the house, and in the
field. 6 And he left all that he had in Joseph’s hand;
and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did
eat. And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favored.
Lev 19:13 You shall not defraud your neighbor,
neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not
abide with you all night until the morning.
De
24:14 You shall not oppress an hired servant that is poor
and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your
strangers that are in your land within your gates: 15 At
his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun
go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it:
lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it be sin to you.
Job 31:13 If I did despise the cause of my
manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with
me; 14 What then shall I do when God rises up? and when
he visits, what shall I answer him?
Ps 123:2
Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their
masters, and as the eyes of a maiden to the hand of her
mistress; so our eyes wait on the LORD our God, until that
he have mercy on us.
Pr 14:35 The king’s favor
is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is against him that
causes shame.
17:2 A wise servant shall have rule
over a son that causes shame, and shall have part of the
inheritance among the brothers.
19:10 Delight is not
seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over
princes.
25:13 As the cold of snow in the time of
harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him:
for he refreshes the soul of his masters.
27:18
Whoever keeps the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so
he that waits on his master shall be honored.
29:12
If a ruler listen to lies, all his servants are wicked.
29:19 A servant will not be corrected by words: for
though he understand he will not answer.
29:21 He
that delicately brings up his servant from a child shall
have him become his son at the length.
30:10 Accuse
not a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be
found guilty.
Ec 7:21 Also take no heed to all
words that are spoken; lest you hear your servant curse you:
Jer 22:13 Woe to him that builds his house by
unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that uses his
neighbor’s service without wages, and gives him not for his
work;
Mal 1:6 A son honors his father, and a
servant his master: if then I be a father, where is my
honor? and if I be a master, where is my fear? said the LORD
of hosts to you, O priests, that despise my name. And you
say, Wherein have we despised your name?
3:5 And I
will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift
witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers,
and against false swearers, and against those that oppress
the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless,
and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear
not me, said the LORD of hosts. 6 For I am the LORD, I
change not; therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed.
Sex in marriage
1 Cor 7:1 Now
concerning the things whereof you wrote to me: It is good
for a man not to touch a woman. 2 Nevertheless, to avoid
fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every
woman have her own husband. 3 Let the husband render to
the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife to the
husband. 4 The wife has not power of her own body, but
the husband: and likewise also the husband has not power of
his own body, but the wife. 5 Defraud you not one the
other, except it be with consent for a time, that you may
give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together
again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. 6
But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
Heb 13:4 Marriage is honorable in all, and the
bed undefiled: but fornicators and adulterers God will
judge.
Gen 18:11 Now Abraham and Sarah were
old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah
after the manner of women. 12 Therefore Sarah laughed
within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have
pleasure, my lord being old also?
26:8 And it came to
pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech
king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw,
and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
Pr 5:18 Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice
with the wife of your youth. 19 Let her be as the loving
hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy you at all
times; and be you ravished always with her love. 20 And
why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and
embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Ec 9:9 Live
joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of the
life of your vanity, which he has given you under the sun,
all the days of your vanity: for that is your portion in
this life, and in your labor which you take under the sun.
Debt of sin
Mt 12:43 When the unclean
spirit is gone out of a man, he walks through dry places,
seeking rest, and finds none. 44 Then he said, I will
return into my house from where I came out; and when he is
come, he finds it empty, swept, and garnished. 45 Then
goes he, and takes with himself seven other spirits more
wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and
the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so
shall it be also to this wicked generation.
23:34
Why, behold, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and
scribes: and some of them you shall kill and crucify; and
some of them shall you whip in your synagogues, and
persecute them from city to city: 35 That on you may come
all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of
righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias,
whom you slew between the temple and the altar. 36 Truly
I say to you, All these things shall come on this
generation. 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you that kill the
prophets, and stone them which are sent to you, how often
would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen
gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!
38 Behold, your house is left to you desolate. 39 For I
say to you, You shall not see me from now on, till you shall
say, Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.
Lu 19:41 And when he was come near, he beheld the
city, and wept over it, 42 Saying, If you had known, even
you, at least in this your day, the things which belong to
your peace! but now they are hid from your eyes. 43 For
the days shall come on you, that your enemies shall cast a
trench about you, and compass you round, and keep you in on
every side, 44 And shall lay you even with the ground,
and your children within you; and they shall not leave in
you one stone on another; because you knew not the time of
your visitation.
1 Cor 10:11 Now all these
things happened to them for ensamples: and they are written
for our admonition, on whom the ends of the world are come.
1 Th 2:14 For you, brothers, became followers of
the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for
you also have suffered like things of your own countrymen,
even as they have of the Jews: 15 Who both killed the
Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us;
and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: 16
Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be
saved, to fill up their sins always: for the wrath is come
on them to the uttermost.
2 Pe 2:4 For if God
spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to
hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be
reserved to judgment; 5 And spared not the old world, but
saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness,
bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; 6 And
turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes
condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample to
those that after should live ungodly;
Jude 1:5
I will therefore put you in remembrance, though you once
knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of
the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed
not. 6 And the angels which kept not their first estate,
but left their own habitation, he has reserved in
everlasting chains under darkness to the judgment of the
great day. 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities
about them in like manner, giving themselves over to
fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth
for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Rev 18:1 And after these things I saw another
angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the
earth was lightened with his glory. 2 And he cried
mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is
fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils,
and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every
unclean and hateful bird. 3 For all nations have drunk of
the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of
the earth have committed fornication with her, and the
merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance
of her delicacies. 4 And I heard another voice from
heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that you be not
partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her
plagues. 5 For her sins have reached to heaven, and God
has remembered her iniquities. 6 Reward her even as she
rewarded you, and double to her double according to her
works: in the cup which she has filled fill to her double.
7 How much she has glorified herself, and lived deliciously,
so much torment and sorrow give her: for she said in her
heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no
sorrow. 8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day,
death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly
burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judges her.
9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication
and lived deliciously with her, shall mourn her, and lament
for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, 10
Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas,
alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one
hour is your judgment come.
19:1 And after these
things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven,
saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honor, and
power, to the Lord our God: 2 For true and righteous are
his judgments: for he has judged the great whore, which did
corrupt the earth with her fornication, and has avenged the
blood of his servants at her hand.
Gen 6:5 And
God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,
and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was
only evil continually. 6 And it repented the LORD that he
had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created
from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the
creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repents me
that I have made them. 8 But Noah found grace in the eyes
of the LORD. 9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah
was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah
walked with God. 10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham,
and Japheth. 11 The earth also was corrupt before God,
and the earth was filled with violence. 12 And God looked
on the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had
corrupted his way on the earth. 13 And God said to Noah,
The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is
filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will
destroy them with the earth.
13:12 Abram dwelled in
the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the
plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. 13 But the men
of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD
exceedingly.
15:16 But in the fourth generation they
shall come here again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is
not yet full.
18:20 And the LORD said, Because the
cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is
very grievous;
18:22 And the men turned their faces
from there, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet
before the LORD. 23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Will
you also destroy the righteous with the wicked? 24
Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: will
you also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty
righteous that are therein? 25 That be far from you to do
after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked:
and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far
from you: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
26 And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous
within the city, then I will spare all the place for their
sakes. 27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I
have taken on me to speak to the LORD, which am but dust and
ashes: 28 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty
righteous: will you destroy all the city for lack of five?
And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not
destroy it. 29 And he spoke to him yet again, and said,
Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said,
I will not do it for forty’s sake. 30 And he said to him,
Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure
there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not
do it, if I find thirty there. 31 And he said, Behold
now, I have taken on me to speak to the LORD: Peradventure
there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not
destroy it for twenty’s sake. 32 And he said, Oh let not
the LORD be angry, and I will speak yet but this once:
Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will
not destroy it for ten’s sake. 33 And the LORD went his
way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and
Abraham returned to his place.
19:12 And the men said
to Lot, Have you here any besides? son in law, and your
sons, and your daughters, and whatever you have in the city,
bring them out of this place: 13 For we will destroy this
place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the
face of the LORD; and the LORD has sent us to destroy it.
14 And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law, which
married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this
place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as
one that mocked to his sons in law. 15 And when the
morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise,
take your wife, and your two daughters, which are here; lest
you be consumed in the iniquity of the city. 16 And while
he lingered, the men laid hold on his hand, and on the hand
of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters; the LORD
being merciful to him: and they brought him forth, and set
him without the city. 22 Haste you, escape thither; for I
cannot do anything till you be come thither. Therefore the
name of the city was called Zoar. 23 The sun was risen on
the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. 24 Then the LORD
rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the
LORD out of heaven; 25 And he overthrew those cities, and
all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and
that which grew on the ground. 26 But his wife looked
back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Ex 20:5 You shall not bow down yourself to them,
nor serve them: for I the LORD your God am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the
third and fourth generation of them that hate me; 6 And
showing mercy to thousands of them that love me, and keep my
commandments.
Lev 10:17 Why have you not eaten
the sin offering in the holy place, seeing it is most holy,
and God has given it you to bear the iniquity of the
congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD?
18:24 Defile not you yourselves in any of these things:
for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out
before you: 25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do
visit the iniquity thereof on it, and the land itself vomits
out her inhabitants. 26 You shall therefore keep my
statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these
abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any
stranger that sojournes among you: 27 (For all these
abominations have the men of the land done, which were
before you, and the land is defiled;) 28 That the land
spew not you out also, when you defile it, as it spewed out
the nations that were before you.
26:14 But if you
will not listen to me, and will not do all these
commandments; 15 And if you shall despise my statutes, or
if your soul abhor my judgments, so that you will not do all
my commandments, but that you break my covenant: 16 I
also will do this to you; I will even appoint over you
terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall
consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and you shall
sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17
And I will set my face against you, and you shall be slain
before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over
you; and you shall flee when none pursues you. 39 And
they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity
in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their
fathers shall they pine away with them. 40 If they shall
confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers,
with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and
that also they have walked contrary to me;
Num
14:9 Only rebel not you against the LORD, neither fear you
the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their
defense is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear
them not.
De 8:19 And it shall be, if you do
at all forget the LORD your God, and walk after other gods,
and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this
day that you shall surely perish. 20 As the nations which
the LORD destroys before your face, so shall you perish;
because you would not be obedient to the voice of the LORD
your God.
9:4 Speak not you in your heart, after that
the LORD your God has cast them out from before you, saying,
For my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess
this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD
does drive them out from before you. 5 Not for your
righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you
go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these
nations the LORD your God does drive them out from before
you, and that he may perform the word which the LORD swore
to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
12:31 You
shall not do so to the LORD your God: for every abomination
to the LORD, which he hates, have they done to their gods;
for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in
the fire to their gods.
24:16 The fathers shall not
be put to death for the children, neither shall the children
be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to
death for his own sin.
2 Sam 21:1 Then there
was a famine in the days of David three years, year after
year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered,
It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew
the Gibeonites. 2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and
said to them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children
of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the
children of Israel had sworn to them: and Saul sought to
slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)
3 Why David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you?
and with which shall I make the atonement, that you may
bless the inheritance of the LORD? 4 And the Gibeonites
said to him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of
his house; neither for us shall you kill any man in Israel.
And he said, What you shall say, that will I do for you.
5 And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and
that devised against us that we should be destroyed from
remaining in any of the coasts of Israel, 6 Let seven men
of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to
the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And
the king said, I will give them. 13 And he brought up
from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his
son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.
14 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in
the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulcher of Kish
his father: and they performed all that the king commanded.
And after that God was entreated for the land.
2
Ki 17:13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and
against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers,
saying, Turn you from your evil ways, and keep my
commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which
I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my
servants the prophets. 14 Notwithstanding they would not
hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their
fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God. 15
And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he
made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he
testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became
vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them,
concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should
not do like them. 16 And they left all the commandments
of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two
calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of
heaven, and served Baal. 17 And they caused their sons
and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used
divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil
in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 18
Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed
them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of
Judah only. 19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of
the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel
which they made. 20 And the LORD rejected all the seed of
Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand
of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight. 21
For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made
Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drove Israel
from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.
22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of
Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them; 23
Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had
said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried
away out of their own land to Assyria to this day.
19:25 Have you not heard long ago how I have done it, and of
ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it
to pass, that you should be to lay waste fenced cities into
ruinous heaps. 26 Therefore their inhabitants were of
small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as
the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass
on the house tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown
up.
2 Ch 28:3 Moreover he burnt incense in the
valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the
fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD
had cast out before the children of Israel.
36:14
Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people,
transgressed very much after all the abominations of the
heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had
hallowed in Jerusalem. 15 And the LORD God of their
fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes,
and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on
his dwelling place: 16 But they mocked the messengers of
God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until
the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there
was no remedy. 17 Therefore he brought on them the king
of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in
the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young
man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave
them all into his hand. 18 And all the vessels of the
house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the
house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his
princes; all these he brought to Babylon. 19 And they
burnt the house of God, and broke down the wall of
Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and
destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof. 20 And them
that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon;
where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign
of the kingdom of Persia: 21 To fulfill the word of the
LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed
her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept
sabbath, to fulfill three score and ten years.
Job
12:23 He increases the nations, and destroys them: he
enlarges the nations, and straitens them again.
Ps
7:11 God judges the righteous, and God is angry with the
wicked every day. 12 If he turn not, he will whet his
sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready.
18:27
For you will save the afflicted people; but will bring down
high looks.
25:11 For your name’s sake, O LORD,
pardon my iniquity; for it is great.
32:5 I
acknowledge my sin to you, and my iniquity have I not hid. I
said, I will confess my transgressions to the LORD; and you
forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
34:16 The face
of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the
remembrance of them from the earth.
37:28 For the
LORD loves judgment, and forsakes not his saints; they are
preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut
off. 29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell
therein for ever.
68:30 Rebuke the company of
spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the
people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver:
scatter you the people that delight in war.
106:37
Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to
devils, 38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of
their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to
the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
39 Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a
whoring with their own inventions. 40 Therefore was the
wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, so that he
abhorred his own inheritance. 41 And he gave them into
the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled over
them.
107:33 He turns rivers into a wilderness, and
the springs into dry ground; 34 A fruitful land into
barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Pr 1:23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will
pour out my spirit to you, I will make known my words to
you. 24 Because I have called, and you refused; I have
stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; 25 But you
have set at nothing all my counsel, and would none of my
reproof: 26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will
mock when your fear comes; 27 When your fear comes as
desolation, and your destruction comes as a whirlwind; when
distress and anguish comes on you. 28 Then shall they
call on me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early,
but they shall not find me: 29 For that they hated
knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: 30
They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way,
and be filled with their own devices.
10:30 The
righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not
inhabit the earth.
11:11 By the blessing of the
upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the
mouth of the wicked.
14:34 Righteousness exalts a
nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.
16:4 The
LORD has made all things for himself: yes, even the wicked
for the day of evil. 5 Every one that is proud in heart
is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he
shall not be unpunished.
Ec 8:11 Because
sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily,
therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them
to do evil.
Isa 1:19 If you be willing and
obedient, you shall eat the good of the land: 20 But if
you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword:
for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it. 21 How is the
faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment;
righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. 22 Your
silver is become dross, your wine mixed with water: 23
Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves:
every one loves gifts, and follows after rewards: they judge
not the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come
to them. 24 Therefore said the LORD, the LORD of hosts,
the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of my
adversaries, and avenge me of my enemies: 25 And I will
turn my hand on you, and purely purge away your dross, and
take away all your tin: 26 And I will restore your judges
as at the first, and your counsellors as at the beginning:
afterward you shall be called, The city of righteousness,
the faithful city.
3:1 For, behold, the Lord, the
LORD of hosts, does take away from Jerusalem and from Judah
the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the
whole stay of water. 2 The mighty man, and the man of
war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the
ancient, 3 The captain of fifty, and the honorable man,
and the counselor, and the cunning artificer, and the
eloquent orator. 4 And I will give children to be their
princes, and babes shall rule over them. 5 And the people
shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by
his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against
the ancient, and the base against the honorable.
3:8
For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their
tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the
eyes of his glory. 9 The show of their countenance does
witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom,
they hide it not. Woe to their soul! for they have rewarded
evil to themselves. 10 Say you to the righteous, that it
shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of
their doings. 11 Woe to the wicked! it shall be ill with
him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him. 12
As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women
rule over them. O my people, they which lead you cause you
to err, and destroy the way of your paths. 13 The LORD
stands up to plead, and stands to judge the people.
10:5 O Assyrian, the rod of my anger, and the staff in their
hand is my indignation. 6 I will send him against an
hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will
I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the
prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
7 However, he means not so, neither does his heart think so;
but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a
few. 8 For he said, Are not my princes altogether kings?
9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not
Samaria as Damascus? 10 As my hand has found the kingdoms
of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of
Jerusalem and of Samaria; 11 Shall I not, as I have done
to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
12 Why it shall come to pass, that when the Lord has
performed his whole work on mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I
will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of
Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
13:9
Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel both with wrath and
fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy
the sinners thereof out of it. 10 For the stars of heaven
and the constellations thereof shall not give their light:
the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon
shall not cause her light to shine. 11 And I will punish
the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity;
and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and
will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. 12 I will
make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the
golden wedge of Ophir. 13 Therefore I will shake the
heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the
wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce
anger.
13:19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the
beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God
overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 20 It shall never be
inhabited, neither shall it be dwelled in from generation to
generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there;
neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. 21 But
wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses
shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell
there, and satyrs shall dance there. 22 And the wild
beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses,
and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near
to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
26:9
With my soul have I desired you in the night; yes, with my
spirit within me will I seek you early: for when your
judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world
will learn righteousness. 10 Let favor be showed to the
wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of
uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the
majesty of the LORD.
26:20 Come, my people, enter you
into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide
yourself as it were for a little moment, until the
indignation be over. 21 For, behold, the LORD comes out
of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for
their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and
shall no more cover her slain.
37:26 Have you not
heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times,
that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that
you should be to lay waste defended cities into ruinous
heaps. 27 Therefore their inhabitants were of small
power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the
grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on
the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned
every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the
iniquity of us all.
65:6 Behold, it is written before
me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even
recompense into their bosom, 7 Your iniquities, and the
iniquities of your fathers together, said the LORD, which
have burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on
the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into
their bosom.
Jer 5:1 Run you to and fro
through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and
seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man, if
there be any that executes judgment, that seeks the truth;
and I will pardon it.
5:12 They have belied the LORD,
and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come on us;
neither shall we see sword nor famine:
7:3 Thus said
the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and
your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
4 Trust you not in lying words, saying, The temple of the
LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are
these. 5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your
doings; if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and
his neighbor; 6 If you oppress not the stranger, the
fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in
this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: 7
Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land
that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever. 8 Behold,
you trust in lying words, that cannot profit. 9 Will you
steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and
burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you
know not; 10 And come and stand before me in this house,
which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do
all these abominations? 11 Is this house, which is called
by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold,
even I have seen it, said the LORD. 12 But go you now to
my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the
first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my
people Israel. 13 And now, because you have done all
these works, said the LORD, and I spoke to you, rising up
early and speaking, but you heard not; and I called you, but
you answered not; 14 Therefore will I do to this house,
which is called by my name, wherein you trust, and to the
place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have
done to Shiloh. 15 And I will cast you out of my sight,
as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole seed of
Ephraim. 16 Therefore pray not you for this people,
neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make
intercession to me: for I will not hear you.
7:24 But
they listened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the
counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and
went backward, and not forward. 25 Since the day that
your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt to this day
I have even sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily
rising up early and sending them: 26 Yet they listened
not to me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck:
they did worse than their fathers. 27 Therefore you shall
speak all these words to them; but they will not listen to
you: you shall also call to them; but they will not answer
you. 28 But you shall say to them, This is a nation that
obeys not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receives
correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their
mouth. 29 Cut off your hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it
away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD
has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath. 30
For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, said
the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house
which is called by my name, to pollute it. 31 And they
have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley
of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters
in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it
into my heart.
11:6 Then the LORD said to me,
Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the
streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear you the words of this
covenant, and do them. 7 For I earnestly protested to
your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the
land of Egypt, even to this day, rising early and
protesting, saying, Obey my voice. 8 Yet they obeyed not,
nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the
imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring on
them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them
to do: but they did them not.
14:16 And the people to
whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of
Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they
shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their
sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness
on them.
15:1 Then said the LORD to me, Though Moses
and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward
this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go
forth. 2 And it shall come to pass, if they say to you,
Where shall we go forth? then you shall tell them, Thus said
the LORD; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are
for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine,
to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the
captivity. 3 And I will appoint over them four kinds,
said the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and
the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to
devour and destroy. 4 And I will cause them to be removed
into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son
of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in
Jerusalem.
16:12 And you have done worse than your
fathers; for, behold, you walk every one after the
imagination of his evil heart, that they may not listen to
me: 13 Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a
land that you know not, neither you nor your fathers; and
there shall you serve other gods day and night; where I will
not show you favor.
18:5 Then the word of the LORD
came to me, saying, 6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with
you as this potter? said the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in
the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.
7 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and
concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to
destroy it; 8 If that nation, against whom I have
pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil
that I thought to do to them. 9 And at what instant I
shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom,
to build and to plant it; 10 If it do evil in my sight,
that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good,
with which I said I would benefit them. 11 Now therefore
go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, saying, Thus said the LORD; Behold, I frame evil
against you, and devise a device against you: return you now
every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your
doings good. 12 And they said, There is no hope: but we
will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do
the imagination of his evil heart.
26:12 Then spoke
Jeremiah to all the princes and to all the people, saying,
The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against
this city all the words that you have heard. 13 Therefore
now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of
the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil
that he has pronounced against you.
27:4 And command
them to say to their masters, Thus said the LORD of hosts,
the God of Israel; Thus shall you say to your masters; 5
I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are on the
ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and
have given it to whom it seemed meet to me. 6 And now
have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar
the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field
have I given him also to serve him. 7 And all nations
shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the
very time of his land come: and then many nations and great
kings shall serve themselves of him. 8 And it shall come
to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve
the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will
not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon,
that nation will I punish, said the LORD, with the sword,
and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have
consumed them by his hand.
31:29 In those days they
shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and
the children’s teeth are set on edge. 30 But every one
shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eats the sour
grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
51:5 For
Israel has not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the
LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against
the Holy One of Israel.
Lam 4:6 For the
punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is
greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was
overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
5:7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have
borne their iniquities.
Eze 4:4 Lie you also
on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of
Israel on it: according to the number of the days that you
shall lie on it you shall bear their iniquity. 5 For I
have laid on you the years of their iniquity, according to
the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so
shall you bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6 And
when you have accomplished them, lie again on your right
side, and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah
forty days: I have appointed you each day for a year.
4:16 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will
break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat
bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water
by measure, and with astonishment: 17 That they may want
bread and water, and be astonished one with another, and
consume away for their iniquity.
9:9 Then said he to
me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is
exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city
full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD has forsaken
the earth, and the LORD sees not. 10 And as for me also,
my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will
recompense their way on their head.
12:17 Moreover
the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 18 Son of man,
eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with
trembling and with carefulness; 19 And say to the people
of the land, Thus said the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their
bread with carefulness, and drink their water with
astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is
therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell
therein. 20 And the cities that are inhabited shall be
laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and you shall
know that I am the LORD. 21 And the word of the LORD came
to me, saying, 22 Son of man, what is that proverb that
you have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are
prolonged, and every vision fails? 23 Tell them
therefore, Thus said the Lord GOD; I will make this proverb
to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in
Israel; but say to them, The days are at hand, and the
effect of every vision. 24 For there shall be no more any
vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of
Israel. 25 For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word
that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more
prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say
the word, and will perform it, said the Lord GOD. 26
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying. 27 Son of
man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision
that he sees is for many days to come, and he prophesies of
the times that are far off. 28 Therefore say to them,
Thus said the Lord GOD; There shall none of my words be
prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall
be done, said the Lord GOD.
14:12 The word of the
LORD came again to me, saying, 13 Son of man, when the
land sins against me by trespassing grievously, then will I
stretch out my hand on it, and will break the staff of the
bread thereof, and will send famine on it, and will cut off
man and beast from it: 14 Though these three men, Noah,
Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their
own souls by their righteousness, said the Lord GOD. 15
If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they
spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass
through because of the beasts: 16 Though these three men
were in it, as I live, said the Lord GOD, they shall deliver
neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered,
but the land shall be desolate. 17 Or if I bring a sword
on that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I
cut off man and beast from it: 18 Though these three men
were in it, as I live, said the Lord GOD, they shall deliver
neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered
themselves. 19 Or if I send a pestilence into that land,
and pour out my fury on it in blood, to cut off from it man
and beast: 20 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as
I live, said the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son
nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by
their righteousness.
16:46 And your elder sister is
Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at your left hand:
and your younger sister, that dwells at your right hand, is
Sodom and her daughters. 47 Yet have you not walked after
their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if
that were a very little thing, you were corrupted more than
they in all your ways. 48 As I live, said the Lord GOD,
Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as
you have done, you and your daughters. 49 Behold, this
was the iniquity of your sister Sodom, pride, fullness of
bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her
daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor
and needy. 50 And they were haughty, and committed
abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw
good. 51 Neither has Samaria committed half of your sins;
but you have multiplied your abominations more than they,
and have justified your sisters in all your abominations
which you have done. 52 You also, which have judged your
sisters, bear your own shame for your sins that you have
committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous
than you: yes, be you confounded also, and bear your shame,
in that you have justified your sisters. 53 When I shall
bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her
daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters,
then will I bring again the captivity of your captives in
the middle of them:
18:18 As for his father, because
he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and
did that which is not good among his people, see, even he
shall die in his iniquity. 19 Yet say you, Why? does not
the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son has
done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my
statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live. 20 The
soul that sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the
iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the
iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous
shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be
on him. 21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins
that he has committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that
which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall
not die. 22 All his transgressions that he has committed,
they shall not be mentioned to him: in his righteousness
that he has done he shall live. 23 Have I any pleasure at
all that the wicked should die? said the Lord GOD: and not
that he should return from his ways, and live?
21:21
For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at
the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his
arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the
liver. 22 At his right hand was the divination for
Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the
slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint
battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to
build a fort. 23 And it shall be to them as a false
divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths:
but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may
be taken. 24 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Because
you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your
transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings
your sins do appear; because, I say, that you are come to
remembrance, you shall be taken with the hand. 25 And
you, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come,
when iniquity shall have an end,
22:1 Moreover the
word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Now, you son of
man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? yes,
you shall show her all her abominations. 3 Then say you,
Thus said the Lord GOD, The city sheds blood in the middle
of it, that her time may come, and makes idols against
herself to defile herself. 4 You are become guilty in
your blood that you have shed; and have defiled yourself in
your idols which you have made; and you have caused your
days to draw near, and are come even to your years:
therefore have I made you a reproach to the heathen, and a
mocking to all countries.
24:21 Speak to the house of
Israel, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my
sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of
your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons
and your daughters whom you have left shall fall by the
sword. 22 And you shall do as I have done: you shall not
cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men. 23 And your
tires shall be on your heads, and your shoes on your feet:
you shall not mourn nor weep; but you shall pine away for
your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
35:5
Because you have had a perpetual hatred, and have shed the
blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in
the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity
had an end:
39:23 And the heathen shall know that the
house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity:
because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face
from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so
fell they all by the sword. 24 According to their
uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I
done to them, and hid my face from them.
Dan
8:23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the
transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce
countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand
up.
9:11 Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law,
even by departing, that they might not obey your voice;
therefore the curse is poured on us, and the oath that is
written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we
have sinned against him. 12 And he has confirmed his
words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges
that judged us, by bringing on us a great evil: for under
the whole heaven has not been done as has been done on
Jerusalem. 13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all
this evil is come on us: yet made we not our prayer before
the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities,
and understand your truth. 16 O LORD, according to all
your righteousness, I beseech you, let your anger and your
fury be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy
mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of
our fathers, Jerusalem and your people are become a reproach
to all that are about us.
Am 3:6 Shall a
trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid?
shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD has not done it?
7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he reveals his
secret to his servants the prophets.
5:18 Woe to you
that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you?
the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light. 19 As if
a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into
the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent
bit him. 20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness,
and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
9:8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful
kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the
earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of
Jacob, said the LORD.
Jon 1:1 Now the word of
the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it;
for their wickedness is come up before me.
3:1 And
the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,
2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it
the preaching that I bid you. 3 So Jonah arose, and went
to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh
was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey. 4 And
Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he
cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be
overthrown. 5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and
proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest
of them even to the least of them. 6 For word came to the
king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid
his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat
in ashes. 7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and
published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his
nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock,
taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: 8
But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry
mightily to God: yes, let them turn every one from his evil
way, and from the violence that is in their hands. 9 Who
can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his
fierce anger, that we perish not? 10 And God saw their
works, that they turned from their evil way; and God
repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do to
them; and he did it not.
4:9 And God said to Jonah,
Do you well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do
well to be angry, even to death. 10 Then said the LORD,
You have had pity on the gourd, for the which you have not
labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and
perished in a night: 11 And should not I spare Nineveh,
that great city, wherein are more then six score thousand
persons that cannot discern between their right hand and
their left hand; and also much cattle?
Zep 3:7
I said, Surely you will fear me, you will receive
instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off,
howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and
corrupted all their doings.
Zec 1:3 Therefore
say you to them, Thus said the LORD of hosts; Turn you to
me, said the LORD of hosts, and I will turn to you, said the
LORD of hosts. 4 Be you not as your fathers, to whom the
former prophets have cried, saying, Thus said the LORD of
hosts; Turn you now from your evil ways, and from your evil
doings: but they did not hear, nor listen to me, said the
LORD. 5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets,
do they live for ever? 6 But my words and my statutes,
which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not
take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like
as the LORD of hosts thought to do to us, according to our
ways, and according to our doings, so has he dealt with us.
Respect for parents
Mt 15:1 Then came to Jesus
scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, 2
Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the
elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
3 But he answered and said to them, Why do you also
transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? 4
For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother:
and, He that curses father or mother, let him die the death.
5 But you say, Whoever shall say to his father or his
mother, It is a gift, by whatever you might be profited by
me; 6 And honor not his father or his mother, he shall be
free. Thus have you made the commandment of God of none
effect by your tradition.
19:16 And, behold, one came
and said to him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do,
that I may have eternal life? 17 And he said to him, Why
call you me good? there is none good but one, that is, God:
but if you will enter into life, keep the commandments.
18 He said to him, Which? Jesus said, You shall do no
murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal,
You shall not bear false witness, 19 Honor your father
and your mother: and, You shall love your neighbor as
yourself.
Lu 2:50 And they understood not the
saying which he spoke to them. 51 And he went down with
them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject to them: but his
mother kept all these sayings in her heart. 52 And Jesus
increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and
man.
Rom 1:29 Being filled with all
unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness,
maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit,
malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God,
despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things,
disobedient to parents,
Eph 6:1 Children, obey
your parents in the Lord: for this is right. 2 Honor your
father and mother; which is the first commandment with
promise; 3 That it may be well with you, and you may live
long on the earth.
Col 3:20 Children, obey
your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing to the
Lord.
1 Tim 5:1 Rebuke not an elder, but
entreat him as a father; and the younger men as brothers;
2 The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with
all purity. 3 Honor widows that are widows indeed. 4
But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn
first to show piety at home, and to requite their parents:
for that is good and acceptable before God. 8 But if any
provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own
house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an
infidel.
2 Tim 3:1 This know also, that in the
last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be
lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud,
blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers,
incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4
Traitors, heady, high minded, lovers of pleasures more than
lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying
the power thereof: from such turn away.
1 Pe
5:5 Likewise, you younger, submit yourselves to the elder.
Yes, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed
with humility: for God resists the proud, and gives grace to
the humble.
Ex 20:12 Honor your father and
your mother: that your days may be long on the land which
the LORD your God gives you.
Lev 19:3 You
shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my
sabbaths: I am the LORD your God. 32 You shall rise up
before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man,
and fear your God: I am the LORD.
20:9 For every one
that curses his father or his mother shall be surely put to
death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood
shall be on him.
Num 30:3 If a woman also vow
a vow to the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her
father’s house in her youth; 4 And her father hear her
vow, and her bond with which she has bound her soul, and her
father shall hold his peace at her; then all her vows shall
stand, and every bond with which she has bound her soul
shall stand. 5 But if her father disallow her in the day
that he hears; not any of her vows, or of her bonds with
which she has bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD
shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.
De 27:16 Cursed be he that sets light by his
father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Pr 1:8 My son, hear the instruction of your
father, and forsake not the law of your mother: 9 For
they shall be an ornament of grace to your head, and chains
about your neck.
4:1 Hear, you children, the
instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
6:20 My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake
not the law of your mother: 21 Bind them continually on
your heart, and tie them about your neck. 22 When you go,
it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and
when you wake, it shall talk with you. 23 For the
commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of
instruction are the way of life:
13:1 A wise son
hears his father’s instruction: but a scorner hears not
rebuke.
15:5 A fool despises his father’s
instruction: but he that regards reproof is prudent. 20 A
wise son makes a glad father: but a foolish man despises his
mother.
19:26 He that wastes his father, and chases
away his mother, is a son that causes shame, and brings
reproach. 27 Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that
causes to err from the words of knowledge.
20:20
Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be
put out in obscure darkness.
23:22 Listen to your
father that begat you, and despise not your mother when she
is old.
23:24 The father of the righteous shall
greatly rejoice: and he that begets a wise child shall have
joy of him. 25 Your father and your mother shall be glad,
and she that bore you shall rejoice.
30:11 There is a
generation that curses their father, and does not bless
their mother. 17 The eye that mocks at his father, and
despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall
pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Isa 3:4 And I will give children to be their princes,
and babes shall rule over them. 5 And the people shall be
oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his
neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the
ancient, and the base against the honorable.
45:10
Woe to him that said to his father, What beget you? or to
the woman, What have you brought forth?
Eze
22:7 In you have they set light by father and mother: in the
middle of you have they dealt by oppression with the
stranger: in you have they vexed the fatherless and the
widow.
Mic 7:5 Trust you not in a friend, put
you not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of your mouth
from her that lies in your bosom. 6 For the son dishonors
the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the
daughter in law against her mother in law; a man’s enemies
are the men of his own house.
Mal 1:6 A son
honors his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a
father, where is my honor? and if I be a master, where is my
fear? said the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, that despise
my name. And you say, Wherein have we despised your name?
