They shall take up venomous snakes, and if they drink any deadly poison it shall do them no harm whatever. They shall lay their hands on the sick, and the sick shall recover."

Then He poured water into a basin, and proceeded to wash the feet of the disciples and to wipe them with the towel which He had put round Him.

in just the same way--neglecting that for which nature intends women--burned with passion towards one another, men practising shameful vice with men, and receiving in their own selves the reward which necessarily followed their misconduct.

If, however, they cannot maintain self-control, by all means let them marry; for marriage is better than the fever of passion.

enmity, strife, jealousy, outbursts of passion, intrigues, dissensions, factions, envyings;

Therefore put to death your earthward inclinations--fornication, impurity, sensual passion, unholy desire, and all greed, for that is a form of idolatry.

Then the passion conceives, and becomes the parent of sin; and sin, when fully matured, gives birth to death.

But the tongue no man or woman is able to tame. It is an ever-busy mischief, and is full of deadly poison.

Curb every passion, and be on the alert. Your great accuser, the Devil, is going about like a roaring lion to see whom he can devour.