Illegitimate Children

A person born of a forbidden union shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one of his enter into Yahweh’s assembly.

But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up.

but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise. — read the full passage →

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 →

Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law? — read the full passage →

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law, — read the full passage →

But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her.”

Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not commit murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith? — read the full passage →

For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God. — read the full passage →

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death. — read the full passage →

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. — read the full passage →

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong; — read the full passage →

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

A bondservant doesn’t live in the house forever. A son remains forever. — read the full passage →

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him. — read the full passage →

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers. — read the full passage →

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.

Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God; — read the full passage →

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. — read the full passage →

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,— — read the full passage →

All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. — read the full passage →

But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”

There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

“‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you; then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident. — read the full passage →

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow. — read the full passage →

As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children, — read the full passage →

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings, — read the full passage →

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law, — read the full passage →

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world. — read the full passage →

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new. — read the full passage →

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God; — read the full passage →

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction, — read the full passage →

When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’

A voice came to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. — read the full passage →

I am the good shepherd.The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. — read the full passage →

They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham. — read the full passage →

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. — read the full passage →

“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful. — read the full passage →

Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?” — read the full passage →

He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. — read the full passage →

Then little children were brought to him, that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them. — read the full passage →

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes. — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

The Spirit of Yahweh will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil. — read the full passage →

Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate. — read the full passage →

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

Deliver me, Yahweh, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man; — read the full passage →

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me; your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap; — read the full passage →

For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him. — read the full passage →

Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. — read the full passage →

David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her. She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Yahweh loved him;

The rich man had very many flocks and herds, — read the full passage →

So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and Yahweh gave her conception, and she bore a son. — read the full passage →

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you. — read the full passage →

Jesus came out, saw a great multitude, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.