Sexual Assault

And I have turned, and I see all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and lo, the tear of the oppressed, and they have no comforter; and at the hand of their oppressors <FI>is<Fi> power, and they have no comforter.

Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous.

And Jehovah is a tower for the bruised, A tower for times of adversity.

He judgeth the poor of the people, Giveth deliverance to the sons of the needy, And bruiseth the oppressor.

And the earth is corrupt before God, and the earth is filled <FI>with<Fi> violence.

Why dost Thou shew me iniquity, And perversity dost cause to behold? And spoiling and violence <FI>are<Fi> before me, And there is strife, and contention doth lift <FI>itself<Fi> up,

`The Spirit of the Lord <FI>is<Fi> upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance, — read the full passage →

Is not this the fast that I chose--To loose the bands of wickedness, To shake off the burdens of the yoke, And to send out the oppressed free, And every yoke ye draw off?

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife--himself he doth love; — read the full passage →

For I have known--many <FI>are<Fi> your transgressions, And mighty your sins, Adversaries of the righteous, taking ransoms, And the needy in the gate ye turned aside.

And Dinah, daughter of Leah, whom she hath borne to Jacob, goeth out to look on the daughters of the land, — read the full passage →

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

Woe <FI>to<Fi> those decreeing decrees of iniquity, And writers who have prescribed perverseness. — read the full passage →

for all the law in one word is fulfilled--in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;'

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

And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I--I do trust in Thee!

having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from these be turning away, — read the full passage →

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.

Jehovah the righteous doth try. And the wicked and the lover of violence, Hath His soul hated,

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

A stroke and shame he doth find, And his reproach is not wiped away,

and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end, he shall be saved. — read the full passage →

And he said unto the disciples, `It is impossible for the stumbling blocks not to come, but woe <FI>to him<Fi> through whom they come; — read the full passage →

`And when a man doth entice a virgin who <FI>is<Fi> not betrothed, and hath lain with her, he doth certainly endow her to himself for a wife; — read the full passage →

`And if in a field the man find the damsel who is betrothed, and the man hath laid hold on her, and lain with her, then hath the man who hath lain with her died alone; — read the full passage →