Stubborn Women

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

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

but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also <FI>are<Fi> the wives to their own husbands in everything.

for a sin of divination <FI>is<Fi> rebellion, and iniquity and teraphim <FI>is<Fi> stubbornness; because thou hast rejected the word of Jehovah, He also doth reject thee from <FI>being<Fi> king.'

On the seventh day, as the heart of the king is glad with wine, he hath said to Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven eunuchs who are ministering in the presence of the king Ahasuerus, — read the full passage →

Also Vashti the queen hath made a banquet for women, in the royal house that the king Ahasuerus hath.

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,

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 →

Noisy she <FI>is<Fi> , and stubborn, In her house her feet rest not.

for God is not <FI>a God<Fi> of tumult, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

`Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers--also ye;

`Who, then, is the servant, faithful and wise, whom his lord did set over his household, to give them the nourishment in season?

She hath considered a field, and taketh it, From the fruit of her hands she hath planted a vineyard.

She hath sought wool and flax, And with delight she worketh <FI>with<Fi> her hands.

Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not. — read the full passage →

They have not kept the covenant of God, And in His law they have refused to walk,

the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;

being darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,

but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou dost treasure up to thyself wrath, in a day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God, — read the full passage →

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

For as a refractory heifer hath Israel turned aside, Now doth Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a large place.

Crooked <FI>is<Fi> the heart above all things, And it <FI>is<Fi> incurable--who doth know it?

And they have not hearkened nor inclined their ear, And they walk each in the stubbornness of their evil heart, And I bring on them all the words of this covenant, That I commanded to do, and they did not.'

And taken hold have seven women on one man, In that day, saying, `Our own bread we do eat, And our own raiment we put on, Only, let thy name be called over us, Remove thou our reproach.' — read the full passage →

A man often reproved, hardening the neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.

O the happiness of a man fearing continually, And whoso is hardening his heart falleth into evil.

There is a way--right before a man, And its latter end <FI>are<Fi> ways of death.

Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not.

Turn back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I make known my words with you. — read the full passage →

And they are not like their fathers, A generation apostate and rebellious, A generation! it hath not prepared its heart, Nor stedfast with God <FI>is<Fi> its spirit.

Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →

and My people on whom My name is called be humbled, and pray, and seek My face, and turn back from their evil ways, then I--I hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin, and heal their land.

And it hath come to pass, at the death of the judge--they turn back and have done corruptly above their fathers, to go after other gods, to serve them, and to bow themselves to them; they have not fallen from their doings, and from their stiff way.

and have said unto the elders of his city, Our son--this one--is apostatizing and rebellious; he is not hearkening to our voice--a glutton and drunkard;

`When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious--he is not hearkening to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not hearken unto them--

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction, — read the full passage →

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,

and all the things reproved by the light are manifested, for everything that is manifested is light;

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

Words of Lemuel a king, a declaration that his mother taught him:

But, My people hearkened not to My voice, And Israel hath not consented to Me. — read the full passage →

And the drinking <FI>is<Fi> according to law, none is pressing, for so hath the king appointed for every chief one of his house, to do according to the pleasure of man and man.

Give not to women thy strength, And thy ways to wiping away of kings.

Ornamental coverings she hath made for herself, Silk and purple <FI>are<Fi> her clothing.