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to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.

An abomination to Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> lying lips, And stedfast doers <FI>are<Fi> his delight.

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

`Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not commit adultery; — read the full passage →

Whoso is walking in integrity walketh confidently, And whoso is perverting his ways is known.

Better <FI>is<Fi> the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse <FI>in<Fi> his lips, who <FI>is<Fi> a fool.

He who committeth adultery <FI>with<Fi> a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow--that also he shall reap, — read the full passage →

and as ye wish that men may do to you, do ye also to them in like manner;

Do not say, `I recompense evil,' Wait for Jehovah, and He delivereth thee.

Better <FI>is<Fi> the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse of ways who is rich.

Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'

`He who is faithful in the least, <FI>is<Fi> also faithful in much; and he who in the least <FI>is<Fi> unrighteous, is also unrighteous in much; — read the full passage →

`Have not I commanded thee? be strong and courageous; be not terrified nor affrighted, for with thee <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah thy God in every <FI>place<Fi> whither thou goest.'

If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain <FI>is<Fi> the religion;

Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,

and--if ye love those loving you, what grace have ye? for also the sinful love those loving them; — read the full passage →

`Thou dost not commit adultery.

for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God.

`And whenever ye may stand praying, forgive, if ye have anything against any one, that your Father also who is in the heavens may forgive you your trespasses;

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men. — read the full passage →

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

but I--I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

Balances of deceit <FI>are<Fi> an abomination to Jehovah, And a perfect weight <FI>is<Fi> His delight.

Put to death, then, your members that <FI>are<Fi> upon the earth--whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry-- — read the full passage →

A froward man sendeth forth contention, A tale-bearer is separating a familiar friend.

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

Say not, `As he did to me, so I do to him, I render to each according to his work.'

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice, — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

A stedfast man hath multiplied blessings, And whoso is hasting to be rich is not acquitted.

`Ye do not steal, nor feign, nor lie one against his fellow.

but I--I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

The wisdom of a man hath deferred his anger, And his glory <FI>is<Fi> to pass over transgression.

Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit.

`He who is faithful in the least, <FI>is<Fi> also faithful in much; and he who in the least <FI>is<Fi> unrighteous, is also unrighteous in much;

`Thou hast not in thy bag a stone and a stone, a great and a small. — read the full passage →

Be not a witness for nought against thy neighbour, Or thou hast enticed with thy lips.

Thou, then, who art teaching another, thyself dost thou not teach? — read the full passage →

for nothing is secret, that shall not become manifest, nor hid, that shall not be known, and become manifest.

The lip of truth is established for ever, And for a moment--a tongue of falsehood.

Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

`Thou dost not steal.

A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger.

`Thou dost not desire the house of thy neighbour, thou dost not desire the wife of thy neighbour, or his man-servant, or his handmaid, or his ox, or his ass, or anything which <FI>is<Fi> thy neighbour's.'

Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices, — read the full passage →

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

`No domestic is able to serve two lords, for either the one he will hate, and the other he will love; or one he will hold to, and of the other he will be heedless; ye are not able to serve God and mammon.'

The desirableness of a man <FI>is<Fi> his kindness, And better <FI>is<Fi> the poor than a liar.

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

`Take heed to yourselves, and, if thy brother may sin in regard to thee, rebuke him, and if he may reform, forgive him, — read the full passage →

Put to death, then, your members that <FI>are<Fi> upon the earth--whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry--

Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not.

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made <FI>them<Fi> , from the beginning a male and a female made them, — read the full passage →

the commands thou hast known: Thou mayest not commit adultery, Thou mayest do no murder, Thou mayest not steal, Thou mayest not bear false witness, Thou mayest not defraud, Honour thy father and mother.'

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered. — read the full passage →

whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.

`And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'

and he saith to them, `Whoever may put away his wife, and may marry another, doth commit adultery against her; — read the full passage →

`Ye do not do perversity in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in liquid measure; — read the full passage →

`For, if ye may forgive men their trespasses He also will forgive you--your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens; — read the full passage →

giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men.

`Judge not, that ye may not be judged, — read the full passage →

An abomination to Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> a stone and a stone, And balances of deceit <FI>are<Fi> not good.

lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you--doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered;

that no one go beyond and defraud in the matter his brother, because an avenger <FI>is<Fi> the Lord of all these, as also we spake before to you and testified,

And a certain one of the Pharisees was asking him that he might eat with him, and having gone into the house of the Pharisee he reclined (at meat), — read the full passage →

A dishonest gainer is troubling his house, And whoso is hating gifts liveth.

A false word the righteous hateth, And the wicked causeth abhorrence, and is confounded.

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete; — read the full passage →

from all appearance of evil abstain ye;

Canaan! in his hand <FI>are<Fi> balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved.

`Ye do not do perversity in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in liquid measure;

and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;

having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform <FI>it<Fi> till a day of Jesus Christ,

be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

And he said--`That which is coming out from the man, that doth defile the man; — read the full passage →

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

Whoso is robbing his father, or his mother, And is saying, `It is not transgression,' A companion he is to a destroyer.

And delight thyself on Jehovah, And He giveth to thee the petitions of thy heart.

`And thou--thou dost provide out of all the people men of ability, fearing God, men of truth, hating dishonest gain, and hast placed <FI>these<Fi> over them, heads of thousands, heads of hundreds, heads of fifties, and heads of tens,

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings;

and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

and he who is making a difference, if he may eat, hath been condemned, because <FI>it is<Fi> not of faith; and all that <FI>is<Fi> not of faith is sin.

fulfil ye my joy, that ye may mind the same thing--having the same love--of one soul--minding the one thing,

The fool--in a day is his anger known, And the prudent is covering shame.

`Thou dost not steal.

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

and as to the rest, it is required in the stewards that one may be found faithful,

Laying hold on the ears of a dog, <FI>Is<Fi> a passer-by making himself wrath for strife not his own.

because all that <FI>is<Fi> in the world--the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life--is not of the Father, but of the world,