Child Born Out Of Wedlock

a bastard doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah; even a tenth generation of him doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah.

and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons.

`Any widow or orphan ye do not afflict;

And the woman whose son <FI>is<Fi> the living one saith unto the king (for her bowels yearned over her son), yea, she saith, `O, my lord, give to her the living child, and put it not at all to death;' and this <FI>one<Fi> saith, `Let it be neither mine or thine--cut <FI>it<Fi> .' — read the full passage →

and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him--how doth the love of God remain in him?

To turn aside from judgment the poor, And to take violently away the judgment Of the afflicted of My people, That widows may be their prey, That the fatherless they may spoil.

and many shall follow out their destructive ways, because of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of,

Thus said Jehovah: Do ye judgment and righteousness, And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, And sojourner, orphan, and widow, ye do not oppress nor wrong, And innocent blood ye do not shed in this place.

Sojourner, fatherless, and widow, ye oppress not, And innocent blood do not shed in this place, And after other gods do not walk, for evil to yourselves,

and it was behoving him to go through Samaria.

Thy people, O Jehovah, they bruise, And Thine inheritance they afflict. — read the full passage →

and his tender affection is more abundantly toward you, remembering the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye did receive him;

he who hath believed, and hath been baptized, shall be saved; and he who hath not believed, shall be condemned.

Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,

and these waters which cause the curse have gone into thy bowels, to cause the belly to swell, and the thigh to fall; and the woman hath said, Amen, Amen.

and Jehovah repenteth that He hath made man in the earth, and He grieveth Himself--unto His heart.

always learning, and never to a knowledge of truth able to come,

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 I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts.

Father and mother made light of in thee, To a sojourner they dealt oppressively in thy midst, Fatherless and widow they oppressed in thee.

and if there is mischief, then thou hast given life for life,

ye are not straitened in us, and ye are straitened in your <FI>own<Fi> bowels,

Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: I have stretched out My hand against Edom, And I have cut off from it man and beast, And given it up--a waste, from Teman even to Dedan, By sword they do fall.

`And if this thing hath been truth--tokens of virginity have not been found for the damsel--

`And when men strive, and have smitten a pregnant woman, and her children have come out, and there is no mischief, he is certainly fined, as the husband of the woman doth lay upon him, and he hath given through the judges; — read the full passage →

And lo, the word of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> unto him, saying, `This <FI>one<Fi> doth not heir thee; but he who cometh out from thy bowels, he doth heir thee;'

For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ,

so that your enemy have I become, being true to you?

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

Through the tender mercies of our God, In which the rising from on high did look upon us,

I go down now, and see whether according to its cry which is coming unto Me they have done completely--and if not--I know;'

Yes, brother, may I have profit of thee in the Lord; refresh my bowels in the Lord;

(for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to choice, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling,) it was said to her--

`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.'