Topic
Child Born Out Of Wedlock
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A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of Jehovah; even to the tenth generation shall none of his enter into the assembly of Jehovah.
But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, It shall be neither mine nor thine; divide it. — read the full passage →
But whoso hath the world’s goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?
to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
And many shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of.
Thus saith Jehovah: Execute ye justice and righteousness, and deliver him that is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the sojourner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.
if ye oppress not the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:
And he must needs pass through Samaria.
They break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah, And afflict thy heritage. — read the full passage →
And his affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned.
Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.
and this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, and make thy body to swell, and thy thigh to fall away. And the woman shall say, Amen, Amen.
And it repented Jehovah that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
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 the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner from his right, and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.
In thee have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the sojourner; in thee have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
But if any harm follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own affections.
therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, I will stretch out my hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; even unto Dedan shall they fall by the sword.
But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the damsel;
And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart, and yet no harm follow; he shall be surely fined, according as the woman’s husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. — read the full passage →
And, behold, the word of Jehovah came unto him, saying, This man shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
So then am I become your enemy, by telling you the truth?
nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Because of the tender mercy of our God, Whereby the dayspring from on high shall visit us,
I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my heart in Christ.
for the children being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth,
And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.
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