Evil Women

Better to dwell in a wilderness land, Than <FI>with<Fi> a woman of contentions and anger.

So--the way of an adulterous woman, She hath eaten and hath wiped her mouth, And hath said, `I have not done iniquity.'

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

Who have devised evils in the heart, All the day they assemble <FI>for<Fi> wars.

He who committeth adultery <FI>with<Fi> a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.

A continual dropping in a day of rain, And a woman of contentions are alike,

A ring of gold in the nose of a sow--A fair woman and stubborn of behaviour.

and if a woman may put away her husband, and is married to another, she committeth adultery.'

he who is doing the sin, of the devil he is, because from the beginning the devil doth sin; for this was the Son of God manifested, that he may break up the works of the devil;

The path of life--lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths--thou knowest not.

for that which I work, I do not acknowledge; for not what I will, this I practise, but what I hate, this I do.

so, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man's; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man's.

And there came one of the seven messengers, who were having the seven vials, and he spake with me, saying to me, `Come, I will shew to thee the judgment of the great whore, who is sitting upon the many waters, — read the full passage →

and the Lord shall free me from every evil work, and shall save <FI>me<Fi> --to his heavenly kingdom; to whom <FI>is<Fi> the glory to the ages of the ages! Amen.

Why do I fear in days of evil? The iniquity of my supplanters doth compass me.

and then I will acknowledge to them, that--I never knew you, depart from me ye who are working lawlessness.

and now it is no longer I that work it, but the sin dwelling in me, — read the full passage →

Every wise woman hath builded her house, And the foolish with her hands breaketh it down.

I find, then, the law, that when I desire to do what is right, with me the evil is present,

Jehovah hath heard my supplication, Jehovah my prayer receiveth.

A virtuous woman <FI>is<Fi> a crown to her husband, And as rottenness in his bones <FI>is<Fi> one causing shame.

`Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things--being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak.

To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,

A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies <FI>is<Fi> her price.

`Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.

Better to sit on a corner of the roof, Than <FI>with<Fi> a woman of contentions and a house of company.

Wisdom hath builded her house, She hath hewn out her pillars--seven. — read the full passage →

aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers, — read the full passage →

And thou dost trust in thy beauty, And goest a-whoring because of thy renown, And dost pour out thy whoredoms On every passer by--to him it is.

And Jesus said to him, `Why me dost thou call good? no one <FI>is<Fi> good, except One--God;

Be ye afraid because of the sword, For furious <FI>are<Fi> the punishments of the sword, That ye may know that <FI>there is<Fi> a judgment.

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

and upon her forehead was a name written: `Secret, Babylon the Great, the Mother of the Whores, and the Abominations of the earth.'

Woe <FI>to<Fi> those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is--to God.

And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper--as his counterpart.'

and that we may be delivered from the unreasonable and evil men, for the faith <FI>is<Fi> not of all;

for revealed is the wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety and unrighteousness of men, holding down the truth in unrighteousness. — read the full passage →

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

And I, having come unto you, brethren, came--not in superiority of discourse or wisdom--declaring to you the testimony of God, — read the full passage →

Words of Lemuel a king, a declaration that his mother taught him: — read the full passage →

A gracious woman retaineth honour, And terrible <FI>men<Fi> retain riches.

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth--

for the secret of the lawlessness doth already work, only he who is keeping down now <FI>will hinder<Fi> --till he may be out of the way,

Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith; — read the full passage →

each, according as he received a gift, to one another ministering it, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God; — read the full passage →

and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, — read the full passage →

Let no one say, being tempted--`From God I am tempted,' for God is not tempted of evil, and Himself doth tempt no one, — read the full passage →

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

A roll of the birth of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham. — read the full passage →

Forming light, and preparing darkness, Making peace, and preparing evil, I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah, doing all these things.'

The grace <FI>is<Fi> false, and the beauty <FI>is<Fi> vain, A woman fearing Jehovah, she may boast herself.

for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;

but I--I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;

for the sake of victuals cast not down the work of God; all things, indeed, <FI>are<Fi> pure, but evil <FI>is<Fi> to the man who is eating through stumbling.

Be not overcome by the evil, but overcome, in the good, the evil.

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Become desolate doth Samaria, Because she hath rebelled against her God, By sword they do fall, Their sucklings are dashed in pieces, And its pregnant ones are ripped up!

The fear of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.

To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?

Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection, — read the full passage →

Thou destroyest those speaking lies, A man of blood and deceit Jehovah doth abominate.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

and laid their hands upon the apostles, and did put them in a public prison; — read the full passage →

Strength and honour <FI>are<Fi> her clothing, And she rejoiceth at a latter day.

Her hand she hath spread forth to the poor, Yea, her hands she sent forth to the needy. — read the full passage →

Thou dost not bow thyself to them, nor serve them: for I, Jehovah thy God, <FI>am<Fi> a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third <FI>generation<Fi> , and on the fourth, of those hating Me,

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

not giving back evil for evil, or railing for railing, and on the contrary, blessing, having known that to this ye were called, that a blessing ye may inherit;

from all appearance of evil abstain ye;

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, — read the full passage →

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →

And he answering said to them, `A generation, evil and adulterous, doth seek a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet;

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.

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

Women--in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.

Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection, — read the full passage →

I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men: — read the full passage →

`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.'

Her mouth she hath opened in wisdom, And the law of kindness <FI>is<Fi> on her tongue.

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

so shall it be in the full end of the age, the messengers shall come forth and separate the evil out of the midst of the righteous, — read the full passage →

And I say, `What <FI>is<Fi> it?' And he saith, `This--the ephah that is coming forth.' And he saith, `This <FI>is<Fi> their aspect in all the land. — read the full passage →

Wash ye, make ye pure, Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil, learn to do good.

As for you, ye devised against me evil--God devised it for good, in order to do as <FI>at<Fi> this day, to keep alive a numerous people;

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won, — read the full passage →

The domestics! be subjecting yourselves in all fear to the masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the cross;

see no one evil for evil may render to any one, but always that which is good pursue ye, both to one another and to all;

Who are putting away the day of evil, And ye bring nigh the seat of violence,

A calamity to his father <FI>is<Fi> a foolish son, And the contentions of a wife <FI>are<Fi> a continual dropping.

And the Spirit and the Bride say, Come; and he who is hearing--let him say, Come; and he who is thirsting--let him come; and he who is willing--let him take the water of life freely.