Being Mother

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> sons, A reward <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of the womb.

And Jehovah God formeth the man--dust from the ground, and breatheth into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becometh a living creature.

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> sons, A reward <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of the womb. — read the full passage →

And God saith, `Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.'

Here is endurance of the saints: here <FI>are<Fi> those keeping the commands of God, and the faith of Jesus.'

and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, `My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him, — read the full passage →

For we--wilfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth--no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice,

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of <FI>their<Fi> husbands, lovers of <FI>their<Fi> children,

And Jesus said to him, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding--

aged, young man, and virgin, and infant, and women, ye do slay--to destruction; and against any man on whom <FI>is<Fi> the mark ye do not go nigh, and from My sanctuary ye begin.'

A rod and reproof give wisdom, And a youth let away is shaming his mother.

Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not. — read the full passage →

Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

For Thou--Thou hast possessed my reins, Thou dost cover me in my mother's belly. — read the full passage →

and these words which I am commanding thee to-day have been on thine heart, — read the full passage →

Unto the woman He said, `Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband <FI>is<Fi> thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'

And there was given to me a reed like to a rod, and the messenger stood, saying, `Rise, and measure the sanctuary of God, and the altar, and those worshipping in it; — read the full passage →

Become desolate doth Samaria, Because she hath rebelled against her God, By sword they do fall, Their sucklings are dashed in pieces, And its pregnant ones are ripped up!

And bows dash young men to pieces, And the fruit of the womb they pity not, On sons their eye hath no pity.

Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.

And Hazael saith, `Wherefore is my lord weeping?' and he saith, `Because I have known the evil that thou dost to the sons of Israel--their fenced places thou dost send into fire, and their young men with sword thou dost slay, and their sucklings thou dost dash to pieces, and their pregnant women thou dost rip up.'

And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and I saw out of the sea a beast coming up, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon its horns ten diadems, and upon its heads a name of evil speaking, — read the full passage →

because the Lord himself, in a shout, in the voice of a chief-messenger, and in the trump of God, shall come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first, — read the full passage →

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free--stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but--to proclaim good news; not in wisdom of discourse, that the cross of the Christ may not be made of none effect;

And he came to Derbe and Lystra, and lo, a certain disciple was there, by name Timotheus son of a certain woman, a believing Jewess, but of a father, a Greek, — read the full passage →

for, lo, days do come, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and wombs that did not bare, and paps that did not give suck;

Lo, a day hath come to Jehovah, And divided hath been thy spoil in thy midst. — read the full passage →

Woe <FI>to<Fi> the worthless shepherd, forsaking the flock, A sword <FI>is<Fi> on his arm, and on his right eye, His arm is utterly dried up, And his right eye is very dim!'

Give to them, Jehovah--what dost Thou give? Give to them miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.

And these <FI>are<Fi> the names of the tribes: From the north end unto the side of the way of Hethlon, at the coming in to Hamath, Hazar-Enan, the border of Damascus northward, unto the side of Hamath, and they have been his--side east and west, Dan one, — read the full passage →