to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin's name was Mary.

They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."

"Behold, the virgin shall be with child and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel," which means, "God with us."

And Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, since I am a virgin?"

But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have troubles in this flesh, and I am trying to spare you.

and his interests are divided. The unmarried woman, and the virgin, is concerned about the affairs of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but the married woman is concerned about the affairs of the world, how she may please her husband.

I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin.

For I have come to set a man 'against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;