Child Born Out Of Wedlock

A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord.

But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are 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 bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it. — read the full passage →

But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

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!

And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

Thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

If ye 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:

And he must needs go through Samaria.

They break in pieces thy people, O Lord, and afflict thine heritage. — read the full passage →

And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst 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 believeth not shall be damned.

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.

And it repented the Lord 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 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, saith the Lord of hosts.

In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.

Therefore thus saith the Lord God; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.

But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:

If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. — read the full passage →

And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.

For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited 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 bowels in the Lord.

(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, 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 it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.