Orphans Widows

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation--unspotted to keep himself from the world.

Father of the fatherless, and judge of the widows, <FI>Is<Fi> God in His holy habitation.

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous. — read the full passage →

`Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did <FI>it<Fi> not to one of these, the least, ye did <FI>it<Fi> not to me.

Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive <FI>for<Fi> the widow.

and if a brother or sister may be naked, and may be destitute of the daily food,

If <FI>from<Fi> delivering those taken to death, And those slipping to the slaughter--thou keepest back. — read the full passage →

Unto the woman He said, `Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband <FI>is<Fi> thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'

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

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

and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and the death shall not be any more, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor shall there be any more pain, because the first things did go away.'

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,

All joy count <FI>it<Fi> , my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold;

aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,

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 this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times, — 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;

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;

I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters--in all purity;

but--which becometh women professing godly piety--through good works.

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

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, — read the full passage →

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

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

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

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow--that also he shall reap,

of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.

And concerning the collection that <FI>is<Fi> for the saints, as I directed to the assemblies of Galatia, so also ye--do ye; — read the full passage →

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled,

Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God,

for every one--whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved.' — read the full passage →

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

And when they believed Philip, proclaiming good news, the things concerning the reign of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized both men and women;

and there is not salvation in any other, for there is no other name under the heaven that hath been given among men, in which it behoveth us to be saved.'

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

And it shall be in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; — read the full passage →

God <FI>is<Fi> a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'

And he said unto him, `In the law what hath been written? how dost thou read?'

And lo, a certain lawyer stood up, trying him, and saying, `Teacher, what having done, life age-during shall I inherit?'

And lo, a certain lawyer stood up, trying him, and saying, `Teacher, what having done, life age-during shall I inherit?' — read the full passage →

having gone, then, disciple all the nations, (baptizing them--to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,

`And the king answering, shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did <FI>it<Fi> to one of these my brethren--the least--to me ye did <FI>it<Fi> .

`Then shall the reign of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom; — read the full passage →

`Teacher, which <FI>is<Fi> the great command in the Law?' — read the full passage →

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

`Do not suppose that I came to throw down the law or the prophets--I did not come to throw down, but to fulfil;

All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.

A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies <FI>is<Fi> her price. — read the full passage →

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

Be not envious of evil men, And desire not to be with them. — read the full passage →

Then filled <FI>with<Fi> laughter is our mouth, And our tongue <FI>with<Fi> singing, Then do they say among nations, `Jehovah did great things with these.'

To the Overseer. --A Psalm, a song of David. Rise doth God--scattered are His enemies! And those hating Him flee from His face. — read the full passage →

`At the presence of grey hairs thou dost rise up, and thou hast honoured the presence of an old man, and hast been afraid of thy God; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

`He who smiteth a man so that he hath died, is certainly put to death;

`Thou dost not murder.

And there riseth a new king over Egypt, who hath not known Joseph,

whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God hath He made man.

And to the man He said, `Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and dost eat of the tree concerning which I have charged thee, saying, Thou dost not eat of it, cursed <FI>is<Fi> the ground on thine account; in sorrow thou dost eat of it all days of thy life, — read the full passage →