Sexual Assault

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.

The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed, — read the full passage →

“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. — read the full passage →

For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.

Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. — read the full passage →

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees; — read the full passage →

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also. — read the full passage →

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

He will get wounds and dishonor. His reproach will not be wiped away.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved. — read the full passage →

He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come! — read the full passage →

“If a man entices a virgin who isn’t pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife. — read the full passage →

But if the man finds the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man forces her, and lies with her; then only the man who lay with her shall die; — read the full passage →