Delilah

and she maketh him sleep on her knees, and calleth for a man, and shaveth the seven locks of his head, and beginneth to afflict him, and his power turneth aside from off him;

And Samson goeth to Gaza, and seeth there a woman, a harlot, and goeth in unto her; — read the full passage →

and she who is given to luxury, living--hath died;

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times, — read the full passage →

remember the wife of Lot.

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth-- — read the full passage →

for sufficient to us <FI>is<Fi> the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revellings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,

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 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> .

neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand;

said, `O full of all guile, and all profligacy, son of a devil, enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease perverting the right ways of the Lord?

And this people hath an apostate and rebellious heart, They have turned aside, and they go on.

The appearance of their faces witnessed against them, And their sin, as Sodom, they declared, They have not hidden! Woe to their soul, For they have done to themselves evil.

And it cometh to pass afterwards that he loveth a woman in the valley of Sorek, and her name <FI>is<Fi> Delilah,

`But I have against thee a few things: That thou dost suffer the woman Jezebel, who is calling herself a prophetess, to teach, and to lead astray, my servants to commit whoredom, and idol-sacrifices to eat;

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

having eyes full of adultery, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having an heart exercised in covetousnesses, children of a curse,

for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;

and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction,

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

and a woman I do not suffer to teach, nor to rule a husband, but to be in quietness,

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

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 no wonder--for even the Adversary doth transform himself into a messenger of light;

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

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.

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. — read the full passage →

and now, I did write to you not to keep company with <FI>him<Fi> , if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner--with such a one not even to eat together; — read the full passage →

have ye not known that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, servants ye are to him to whom ye obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires;

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

There is no fear of God before their eyes.'

Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God;

and having come to the place, he said to them, `Pray ye not to enter into temptation.'

And he said unto the disciples, `It is impossible for the stumbling blocks not to come, but woe <FI>to him<Fi> through whom they come; — read the full passage →

And he said unto them, `Observe, and beware of the covetousness, because not in the abundance of one's goods is his life.'

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

watch, and pray, that ye may not enter into temptation: the spirit indeed is forward, but the flesh weak.'

`And his lord answering said to him, Evil servant, and slothful, thou hadst known that I reap where I did not sow, and I gather whence I did not scatter!

and Jesus said to his disciples, `Verily I say to you, that hardly shall a rich man enter into the reign of the heavens; — read the full passage →

`And if he may not hear them, say <FI>it<Fi> to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.

`But, take heed of the false prophets, who come unto you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves.

`The lamp of the body is the eye, if, therefore, thine eye may be perfect, all thy body shall be enlightened, — read the full passage →

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

Woe <FI>to<Fi> those saying to evil `good,' And to good `evil,' Putting darkness for light, and light for darkness, Putting bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.

Better <FI>is<Fi> open reproof than hidden love.

For a lamp <FI>is<Fi> the command, And the law a light, And a way of life <FI>are<Fi> reproofs of instruction, — read the full passage →

And the rest of the matters of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?

And it cometh to pass, when he finisheth to speak unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan hath been bound to the soul of David, and Jonathan loveth him as his own soul.

and she saith, `Philistines <FI>are<Fi> upon thee, Samson;' and he awaketh out of his sleep, and saith, `I go out as time by time, and shake myself;' and he hath not known that Jehovah hath turned aside from off him.

And Samson goeth to Gaza, and seeth there a woman, a harlot, and goeth in unto her; — read the full passage →

And Samson goeth to Gaza, and seeth there a woman, a harlot, and goeth in unto her; — read the full passage →

For of the vine of Sodom their vine <FI>is<Fi> , And of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes <FI>are<Fi> grapes of gall--They have bitter clusters;

and Isaac bringeth her in unto the tent of Sarah his mother, and he taketh Rebekah, and she becometh his wife, and he loveth her, and Isaac is comforted after <FI>the death of<Fi> his mother.

And the serpent hath been subtile above every beast of the field which Jehovah God hath made, and he saith unto the woman, `Is it true that God hath said, Ye do not eat of every tree of the garden?' — read the full passage →

as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other flesh, have been set before--an example, of fire age-during, justice suffering.

Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon <FI>you<Fi> ; — read the full passage →

Words of a preacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem: — read the full passage →

And there is a famine in the days of David three years, year after year, and David seeketh the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah saith, `For Saul and for the bloody house, because that he put to death the Gibeonites.'

And the sons of Israel add to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and Jehovah giveth them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. — read the full passage →

`And it hath been, if thou dost hearken diligently to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all His commands which I am commanding thee to-day, that Jehovah thy God hath made thee uppermost above all the nations of the earth, — read the full passage →

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

After many days thou art appointed, In the latter end of the years thou comest in unto a land brought back from sword, <FI>A people<Fi> gathered out of many peoples, Upon mountains of Israel, That have been for a perpetual waste, And it from the peoples hath been brought out, And dwelt safely have all of them.