The Danger of Dissatisfaction With
One’s Lot in Life - Part XIII
Mark 7:14-23
Ezekiel 16:18-63; Proverbs 5:15-23; et. al.
August 25, 2024
Four weeks ago:
"Square peg in a
round hole" is an idiomatic expression which describes
the unusual individualist who could not fit into a niche* of
their society.
* a place
for which a person or thing is best fitted.
mortise and tenon: A mortise and tenon
joint connects two pieces of wood
or other material. Woodworkers around the world have used it
for thousands
of years to join pieces of wood, mainly when the adjoining
pieces connect at right
angles.
Mortise
and tenon joints are strong and stable joints that
can be used in many
projects. They connect by either gluing or friction-fitting into
place. The
mortise and tenon joint also gives an
attractive look.
Mark
7:14-23
14 Hearken unto
me every one of you, and understand:
15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can
defile him: but the things which come out of him,
those are they
that defile the man.
16 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
17 And when He was entered into the house from the people, His
disciples asked Him concerning the parable.
18 And He saith unto them, Are ye so without
understanding also? Do
ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from
without entereth into
the man, it cannot defile him;
19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but
into the belly, and goeth
out into the draught*, purging all meats?
aphedrone - like ophedrone
* ἀφεδρῶνα - aphedrona - toilet; ἀπό+ἕδρα, a
place for "sitting apart";
idiomatic reference to a privy ("private", also an idiom) or latrine.
20 And He said, That which cometh out of the
man, that defileth the
man.
21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed
evil thoughts,
adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil
eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
·
THE SOURCE
OF ALL IMPURITY IS NOT IN
GOD’S WORKS,
BUT IN MAN’S
HEART. “All these evil things
proceed from within.”
Thus Jesus, with His just judgment, traces evil to its
hidden source. The
heart, not the flesh, is the
seat of defilement. This is the fountain which can
corrupt God’s good and pure gifts.
How marked a contrast does He make
between a possible ceremonial
uncleanness — a very trifle at most (as to
moral uncleanness it is nil) — and
the greatness, the multiplicity, and the
foulness of the “evil things which proceed from within”! Material
things
cannot in themselves convey moral
impurity. Even the excess in the use of
the food, which destroys life, comes from within. That the good things of
God may be
turned into occasions of evil all know, but it is only the heart
that can so turn them. Whatsoever
is “without the man cannot defile him,
because it goeth merely into
his body, not into his heart; “and the
heart, not
the body, is
“the man,” the true man, the very man.
Of all
these things can a man be forgiven - yes - even as I read a few weeks ago
from I Corinthians 6:9-11:
9 Know ye not that the
unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of
God? Be not
deceived: neither fornicators, nor
idolaters, nor
adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with
mankind.
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards,
nor revilers, nor
extortioners, shall inherit the
11 And such were some of you: but
ye are washed, but ye are
sanctified, but ye are justified in the
name of the Lord Jesus, and by
the Spirit of our God.
The essential being of man is
spiritual (why does it take
a lifetime to find this truth out?
some of us maybe never understand
this, which is a great detriment to our very being! I am within three weeks
of 81 years old as I write this! CY - 2024), the body is only the
garment or case in which we dwell. Purity or its opposite must therefore
be judged of from that standpoint. If the soul, will, spirit, inner thought of a
man is pure, he is wholly pure. Spiritual and ceremonial cleanness must not
be confounded. Religion is not a matter of forms, ceremonies, or anything
merely outside; but of the heart. Yet the thought and will must influence
the outward action, habit, and life. The spiritual is the only eternal
religion
(John 4:23=24). The private question of the
disciples is worthy of
notice. A “parable” seems to have been their common name for a difficult
saying of Christ’s. Their
incapacity was not intellectual but spiritual.
Professed Christians themselves often require to
be more fully instructed.
The progressive life of the true Christian will
itself solve many problems.
“Had our Saviour been
speaking as a physiologist (an expert in or student
of the
branch of biology that deals with the normal functions of living
organisms and their parts). He would have admitted
and contended that many things from without, if allowed to enter within,
will corrupt the functions of physical life, and carry disorder
and detriment
into the whole fabric of the frame. But he was speaking as a moralist, and
hence the antithetic statement of the next clause (compare v. 15)”
(Morison).
Thus the explanation of
the problem we have in society and
the world at large, today:
Succumbing to THE LIE - where I left off
last week, and why??? Those that perished “.....because
they received not the
love
of the TRUTH, that they might be saved.
And for this cause God shall
send
them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie.”” (II Thessalonians 2:10-11)
There
is no greater warning than the one Peter gave on the Day of Pentecost:
“.........Save yourselves from this
untoward generation... Read Acts chapter 2)
There
were about 3000 souls saved that day!
Beware
also that you are not the man or woman that Paul speaks of
in I Corinthians 2:14: “.....the
natural man receiveth not the things of
the Spirit of God:
for they are foolishness to him:
neither can he know
them,
because they are spiritually discerned.”
By
not receiving the TRUTH from the Holy Spirit you are susceptible
and open to receiving THE
LIE and without Christ, you will never
have ETERNAL
LIFE!
Now from
last week:
Concerning
the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to Him,
we ask you, brothers and sisters, not to
become easily unsettled or alarmed by
the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a
prophecy or by word of mouth
or by letter—asserting that the day of the
Lord has already come. Don’t let
anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will
not come until the rebellion
occurs
(WILL THIS BE OF THE MAGNITUDE OF SATAN’S ATTEMPTED
OVERTHROW OF GOD BEFORE THE
CREATION OF MAN? - CY - 2024)
and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the
man doomed to destruction.
He
will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is
worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s
temple, proclaiming himself to
be God. Don’t you remember that when I was
with you I used to tell you these
things? And now you know what is holding him
back, so that he may be
revealed at the proper time. For the secret power of
lawlessness is already
at work; but the one who now holds it back will
continue to do so till He is
taken out of the way. And then the lawless one
will be revealed, whom the
Lord
Jesus will overthrow with the breath of His mouth and destroy by the
splendor of His coming. The coming
of the lawless one will be in accordance
with how
Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power
through signs
and wonders
that serve THE LIE (caps mine - CY - 2024) and all the ways
that wickedness deceives those who are
perishing. They perish because they
refused to love the truth and so be saved. (Contrast this with John 3:16 -
“For God so loved the
world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” CY -
2024)
For
this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe
THE LIE (ibid.)
and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth
but have delighted in wickedness (2
Thessalonians 2:1–12, emphasis added).
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If you are dissatisfied with God’s creation
here in this world, not accepting who
you are why you are; or what your role in life - (remember
Father Knows Best -
in the early days of television) - well God
is light years ahead of Robert Young in
knowing how to do what is best for mankind - then what would your
reaction be, if on entering heaven, you find the truth of Christ’s
words
in Matthew 22:30 - “....they neither marry
nor are given in marriage,
but are as the angels of God in heaven.”
The biblical explanation of male/female for
me is best understood
from
I Peter 3:7 “Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according
to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife, as unto
the weaker vessel,
and as being heirs together of the of
the grace of life, that your prayers
be not hindered.” (I wonder how much damage has been done in society
because of lack of prayer over the issue, not only for the cause of
egalitarianism but for the ruin of the soul of the individual involved.
CY - 2024)
In doing some research, I learned a new word - egalitarian - which is believing
in principles
where all are considered equal, regardless of gender, race,
9 Know ye not that the
unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of
God? Be not
deceived: neither fornicators, nor
idolaters, nor
adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with
mankind.
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards,
nor revilers, nor
extortioners, shall inherit the
11 And such were some of you: but
ye are washed, but ye are
sanctified, but ye are justified in the
name of the Lord Jesus, and by
the Spirit of our God.
Revelation 22:10-15
10 And he saith unto
me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this
book: for the time is at hand.
11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still:
and he which is filthy, let
him be filthy still: and he that is righteous,
let him be righteous still:
and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward
is with me, to give
every man according as his work shall be.
13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and
the end, the first and the last.
14 Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they may have
right to the tree of life, and may enter in
through the gates into the city.
15 For without are dogs (κύνες
- kunes - dogs
- used here metaphorically
of those whose moral impurity will exclude
them from the New Jerusalem)
and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and
murderers, and idolaters, and
whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
“So God created man in His own image, in the image of God, in
the
image of God
created He him; male and female created He them.”
(Genesis
1:27)
“Watch ye, stand fast in the faith,
quit you like men, be strong.”
(I
Corinthians 16:13)
ἀνδρίζεσθε - andrizesthe - to behave like a man
from ἀνδρίζω - andrizo - to make a man, to play a man = quit
you like men.
Play the Man: Becoming the Man God Created You to Be
This is a Mark Batterson
book that offers encouragement and advice
for what it
is and takes to be a man of God based on
the word of God.
Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be tough[a]! Make
yourself strong!
Be you watching, be you standing-resolute in the trust,
be you
manning-up, be you enstaunced. (loyal and committed
in attitude
The idea of
a macho-man who is in reality, spiritually impotent.
This seems to me to be
a paradox (a seemingly absurd or
self-contradictory
statement or proposition that
when investigated or explained may prove to
be well founded or true.) So strong physically, yet
so weak spiritually.
We have a body, a soul, and a spirit.
Jeremiah 5:3 “......they
have refused to return.”
“O Lord, are not thine
eyes upon the truth? Thou has stricken them, but they
have not grieveed;
thou hast consumed them but they have refused to receive
correction:
they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused
to return.”
I want to read to you the introduction to Spurgeon’s sermon Decided Ungodliness
delivered August 20, 1882 (142 years ago - He being dead, yet speaketh)
THERE is,
in the heart of every one of us, the primary evil of sin; we have
all transgressed against the Lord. So far, so bad; but that natural sin of ours
may be greatly increased by a refusal to turn from
it. It is bad enough to
have violated God’s righteous law, but to refuse to repent, and to continue
presumptuously in our iniquity, must greatly increase
our guilt in the sight
of God. This guilt may also be still further increased
if we refuse to return
unto the Lord when we are earnestly and
affectionately invited to yield
submission to Him. If gracious terms of peace are
presented to us, and
matchless promises of blessing are made to us on condition that
we do
return,— and if we are often warned, and often
entreated, and often
threatened, and yet we still refuse to return, then we continue to pile sin
upon sin, till we make our first transgression to be incredibly great.
(Some of
you are no doubt financially savvy and understand what compound interest *is in
money (*
Compound interest is interest calculated on both the initial principal
and all
of the previously accumulated interest. Generating
"interest on interest" is known
as the power of compound interest. Interest can be compounded
on a variety of
frequencies, such as daily, monthly, quarterly, or annually
- Google),
but are
unaware of the compound interest of sin. CY - 2024) If I were now to preach to
men as simply sinners, it would be a weighty message for me to
have to tell them
that “all have sinned, and come
short of the glory of God;” but, alas! I have to
preach to impenitent sinners, to those who, as our text puts it, “have refused
to return,” ay, and to
some who have given that refusal with great deliberation,
after having been long entreated and persuaded. to turn from the error of
their ways. Some have
been addressed in such tender, pleading language as this,
“Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of
or this: “Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is
near: let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts:
and
let him return unto
the Lord, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our
God, for He will abundantly
pardon.” If we have
heard such language as
that, and yet have persisted in refusing to return, we
have heaped guilt
upon guilt, and the wrath of God will be in proportion
to our sin.
The coming of Christ to a soul, to a community,
is a moral probation (subjection
of an individual to a period of testing and trial to ascertain
fitness, as for a job or
school) ,
involving the most serious responsibility.
TO REJECT
JESUS CHRIST AND THE WITNESS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT is the
only UNFORGIVABLE SIN.
The first stages of Christian life in the individual and in the
historic Church
are marked by low ideas of the person and work of Christ, producing
estrangement from Him, fear, and weakness.
In Christ we are all the same — we are equal with one another.
A couple of months back, at a Bible Study,
our teacher, Bro. David Smith, mentioned
coincidently, about those with dissatisfaction in life, always seeking
for something,
but
basically not knowing what they want, never finding it.
I add until fortunately, meeting Jesus
Christ.
Have I not mentioned U2 - I Still Haven’t
Found What I’m Looking?
In Psalm 16:8-11 is a remedy, as the Bible, in many other
passages offers:
8 I have set the LORD always before me: because He is at my
right
hand, I shall not
be moved.
9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also
shall rest in hope.
10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou
suffer
thine
Holy One to see corruption.
11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fullness of
joy; at thy right
hand there are pleasures for evermore.
But there is another side: There is a clear explanation of the problem in v. 4.
4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another
God:
“The Lord is known by the judgment which He executeth:
the wicked is snared in the work of his own
hands. Higgaion.* Selah.**
The
wicked shall be turned into hell, and all nations
that forget God.
(Psalm 9:16-17)
* A technical term of musical direction - The word may
signify either a solemn,
deep-toned harp interlude or a
solemn pause conducive to meditation.
How much thought have you put into your situation?
** A transliterated Hebrew expression found frequently
in the Psalms and also
appearing in Habakkuk chapter 3. Selah indicates a pause in the text.
Selah is a synonym of Hebrew words that mean “forever.”
eternal
implications?? CY (Wow!)
The Scripture reveals that “Blessed is the nation whose God is
the Lord.”
(Psalm 33:12) At first I put happy in my browser,
the word
being hid in my heart, but not knowing where to find it. -
Bro. Christian always said that “blessed” - means happy.
Oh the blessings of the man, the family, the city, the
country side,
the nation
- that has realized the truth of vs. 5-7 of Psalm 16
5 The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup:
thou
maintainest
my lot.
6 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I
have a
goodly heritage.
“Thus
saith the Lord; I remember thee, the kindness of thy
youth,
the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest
after me in the wilderness,
in a land that was not
sown. Israel was holiness unto the LORD,
and
the firstfruits
of his increase: all that devour him shall offend;
evil shall come upon
them, saith the LORD.” (Jeremiah
2:2-3)
7 I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins* also
instruct me in the
night seasons.
νεφρός - nephros - kidney
νεφροί
* mind,
heart, kidneys - metamorphically of the will and the affections which
were regarded as
having their seat in the “kidneys.”
instruct -
they-CHASTEN/CORRECT/TRAIN - discipline/teach/educate
Job 19:25-27
25 For I know that my redeemer liveth,
and that He shall stand at the
latter day upon the earth:
26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my
flesh
shall I see God:
27 Whom I shall see for myself,
and mine eyes shall behold, and not
another; though my reins be consumed within me.
Revelation
2:20-23
20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because
thou
sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth
herself a prophetess, to
teach and to seduce my servants
to commit fornication, and to eat
things sacrificed unto idols.
21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she
repented
not. (Do you think that God
would give that wicked woman, Jezebel space
to repent
and not you!!??? How much space have you used up or abused? -
CY - 2024)
22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit
adultery
with her into great tribulation, except they repent of
their deeds.
23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the
churches shall
know that I am He which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will
give unto every one of you
according to your works.
There seems to be something in the word bed - do you
remember last
week me
mentioning “nor abusers of themselves with mankind
ἀρσενοκοῖται - arsenokoitai - malebedders; from αρσενος - apsoenos -
male and κοιτην - koitaen - bed. It has
a sexual connotation, but with
whom the male is bedding is
not specified.
Thinking about sexual matters now is a good place to go back
to
Ezekiel 16 where I began and left off on May 26, ten weeks
ago, at v.18.
Ezekiel
16
This still
from the NIV
The use of Ezekiel 16 from the NIV
to get ideas across of what I am trying to
illustrate today. The first
seventeen verses I discussed on an earlier occasion
and if interested, see May 26, 2024 lesson.
18 And you took your embroidered
clothes to put on them, and you offered my oil
and incense before them.
19 Also the food I provided for
you—the flour, olive oil and honey I gave you
to eat—you offered as fragrant incense before them. That is
what happened,
declares the Sovereign Lord.
20 “‘And you took your sons and
daughters whom you bore to me and sacrificed
them as food to the idols. Was your prostitution not enough?
21 You slaughtered my children and sacrificed
them to the idols.
22 In all your detestable practices and your prostitution you did not
remember
the days of your youth, when you were naked and
bare, kicking about in
your blood.
23 “‘Woe! Woe to you, declares the Sovereign Lord. In addition to all your other
wickedness,
24 You built a mound for yourself
and made a lofty shrine in every public square.
25 At every street corner you built your lofty shrines and degraded
your beauty,
spreading your legs with increasing promiscuity to anyone
who passed by.
26 You engaged in prostitution with the Egyptians, your
neighbors with
large genitals, and aroused my anger with your
increasing promiscuity.
For modesty’s sake, I will substitute
“sexual prowess” for the term used. What
was really said
can be found in the NIV’s rendition of Ezekiel 16:26
- CY - 2024)
27 So I stretched out my
hand against you and reduced your territory;
I gave you over to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines,
who were shocked by your lewd conduct.
28 You engaged in prostitution
with the Assyrians too, because you were insatiable;
and even after that, you still
were not satisfied. (I am
going to take the liberty
to add, what I
perceive as a bedfellow of insatiability, incorrigiblity. Often a person
who is
insatiable, ends up incorrigible.
Insatiable = unquenchable,
unappeasable, uncontrollable, voracious, prodigious (huge).
unsatiable
- impossible to satisfy; incapable of being satisfied
Incorrigible = incapable of being corrected, amended, or
reformed, not manageable :
Incorrigibility = bad
and impossible to change or improve
Elementary
school - heard of Reform School
High School -
heard of marijuana in locker at a high school in the county -
I knew the person
accused -
Rarity of this in my upbringing.
29 Then you increased your
promiscuity to include
but even with this you were not satisfied. (Somewhere along the line in my
life
I ran across the idea that “Man wants what he can’t get but if he ever gets it,
that is not what
he wanted after all! - a non -sexual reference but holds
true in
physical escapades also - I cite the teaching of Proverbs
5:15-23 * below -CY - 2024)
Proverbs 15
*15 Drink waters out of thine
own cistern, and running waters out of thine own
well.
16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and
rivers of waters in the streets.
17 Let them be only thine
own, and not strangers’ with thee.
18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice
with the wife of thy youth.
19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant
roe; let her breasts
satisfy thee at
all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished
with a strange woman, and
embrace the
bosom of a stranger?
21 For the ways of
man are before the eyes of the LORD, and He
pondereth all his goings.
22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked
himself, and he shall be
holden with the cords of his sins.
23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his
folly he
shall go astray. (Proverbs 5:15-23)
Also:
“Marriage
is honorable in all and the bed undefiled; but whoremongers
and adulterers, God will judge.” (Hebrews 13:5)
While I am at it - “....whosoever committeth adultery with a woman lacketh
understanding:
he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
A wound and
dishonor shall he get, and his reproach shall
not be wiped away.” (Proverbs 6:32-33)
Compare the case of the woman taken in
adultery (John 8:3-11)
The words of Jesus are: “....all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be
forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost
shall not be
forgiven unto men......neither in this world , neither
in the world to come.”
(Matthew 12:31-32)
30 “‘I am filled with fury against you, declares the
Sovereign Lord, when you do
all these things, acting like a brazen
prostitute!
31 When you built your mounds at
every street corner and made your lofty
shrines in every public square, you were unlike a
prostitute, because you
scorned payment.
32 “You adulterous wife! You prefer strangers to your own husband!
33 All prostitutes receive
gifts, but you give gifts to all your lovers, bribing
them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit
favors.
34 So in your prostitution you are
the opposite of others; no one runs after you
for your favors. You are the very opposite, for you give
payment and none is
given to you.
35 “‘Therefore, you prostitute, hear the word of the Lord!
36 This is what the
Sovereign Lord says: Because you poured out your
lust
and exposed your naked body in your promiscuity with your lovers, and
because of all your detestable idols, and because you gave them your
children’s blood,
37 Therefore I am going to gather
all your lovers, with whom you found pleasure,
those you loved as well as those you hated. I will gather
them against you
from all around and will strip you in front of them, and
they will see
you stark
naked.
38 I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery
and who shed blood; I will bring on you the blood vengeance of my wrath
and jealous
anger.
39 Then I will deliver you into the hands of your lovers, and they
will tear
down your mounds and destroy your lofty shrines. They will strip you
of your clothes
and take your fine jewelry and leave you stark naked.
40 They will bring a mob against you, who will stone you and hack you to
pieces with their swords.
41They will burn down your houses and inflict punishment on you in
the
sight of many women. I will put a stop to your
prostitution, and you will
no longer pay your lovers.
42Then my wrath against you will subside and my jealous anger will turn
away
from you; I will be calm and no longer angry.
43 “‘Because you did not remember the days
of your youth but enraged me with
all these things,
I will surely bring down on your head what you have done,
declares the
Sovereign Lord. Did you not add lewdness to
all your other
detestable practices?
44 “‘Everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb
about you:
“Like mother, like daughter.”
45 You are a true daughter of your
mother, who despised her husband and her
children; and you are a true sister of your sisters, who
despised their husbands
and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your
father an Amorite.
46 Your older sister was
daughters; and your younger sister, who lived to the south
of you with her
daughters, was
47 You not only followed their
ways and copied their detestable practices,
but in all your ways you soon became more depraved
than they.
48 As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, your sister
her daughters never did what you and your daughters have
done.
49 “‘Now
this was the sin of your sister
arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not
help the poor and needy.
50They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away
with them as you have seen. (Although not here, sixty-tw0 [62] times in
Ezekiel, it is said, “and they shall know that I am the Lord” I would say
that this statement is its equivalent, stated in other words - see
# 223.
Ezekiel – Study of God’s Use of the
Word Know
51
Samaria did not commit half the sins you did. You
have done more
detestable things than they, and have made
your sisters seem righteous
by all these things you have done.
52 Bear your disgrace (KJV - Bear thine own shame) Take it like a man
for you have furnished some justification
for your sisters. Because your
sins were more vile than theirs, they
appear more righteous than you.
So then, be ashamed and bear your disgrace, for you have made your
53 However, I will restore the fortunes of Sodom and her
daughters and of
Samaria and her daughters, and your
fortunes along with them,
54 So that you
may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you have done in
55
And your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and
Samaria with her daughters,
will return to what they were before; and
you and your daughters will return to
56 You would not
even mention your sister Sodom in the day of your pride,
57 Before your
wickedness was uncovered. Even so, you are now scorned by
the daughters of Edom and all her
neighbors and the daughters of the
Philistines —all those around you who despise you.
58 You will bear
the consequences of your lewdness and your detestable
59 “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will deal with you as
you deserve,
because you have despised my oath by
breaking the covenant.
60
Yet I will remember the covenant I made with
you in the days of your
youth, and I will establish an
everlasting covenant with you.
61 Then you will
remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your
sisters, both those who are older than you
and those who are younger. I will
give them to you as daughters, but
not on the basis of my covenant with you.
62 So I will establish my covenant with you, and
you will know that I am the Lord.
63 Then, when I make atonement for you for all you have
done, you will
remember and be ashamed and never
again open your mouth because of
your humiliation, declares the Sovereign Lord.’”
24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the
flattery of the tongue
25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither
let her take thee
26 For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought
to a piece of
bread:
and the adultress will hunt for the precious life.
27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes
not be burned?
28Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
29 So he that goeth in to his neighbor’s wife;
whosoever toucheth her
30 Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to
satisfy his soul when he is
31But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he
shall give all the
32 But whoso committeth adultery with a woman
lacketh
understanding:
he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
33 A wound and dishonor shall he get; and his
reproach shall not be
34 For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he
will not spare in the
35 He will not regard any ransom; neither will he
rest content, though