Topic
Evil Women
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It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.
“So is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’
But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.
those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.
He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.
A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:
Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery.”
He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.
For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters, — read the full passage →
And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom; to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?
Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’
So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. — read the full passage →
Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
Yahweh has heard my supplication. Yahweh accepts my prayer.
A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.
You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;
Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.
Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.
Wisdom has built her house. She has carved out her seven pillars. — read the full passage →
and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; — read the full passage →
But you trusted in your beauty, and played the prostitute because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution on everyone who passed by; his it was.
Jesus asked him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good, except one—God.
be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”
For everything spoken by God is possible.”
And on her forehead a name was written, “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”
Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; for not all have faith.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, — read the full passage →
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,
When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →
The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →
A gracious woman obtains honor, but violent men obtain riches.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way.
let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says. — read the full passage →
As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms. — read the full passage →
Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →
Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. — read the full passage →
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. — read the full passage →
I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.
For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.
Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.
Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Samaria will bear her guilt; for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.”
The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.
For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. — read the full passage →
You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →
and laid hands on the apostles, and put them in public custody. — read the full passage →
Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come.
She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy. — read the full passage →
you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”
Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →
not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.
Abstain from every form of evil.
For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →
for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →
But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given it but the sign of Jonah the prophet.
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. — read the full passage →
I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →
I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”
She opens her mouth with wisdom. Faithful instruction is on her tongue.
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.
So will it be in the end of the world. The angels will come and separate the wicked from among the righteous, — read the full passage →
I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is the ephah basket that is appearing.” He said moreover, “This is their appearance in all the land — read the full passage →
Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.
In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →
Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.
See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good, for one another, and for all.
Those who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.
The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.
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