17 Bible Verses about womanhood
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such was Sarah, who show'd her obeysance to Abraham, by stiling him her Lord: and you will be stiled her children, if you imitate her conduct, and are not to be terrified out of your virtue.
however the women may be saved by educating their children, and persevering themselves in faith, in charity, in holiness and chastity. this may be depended upon as true.
Now as to the question you writ to me about; "whether it is best for a man not to marry?"
a woman when she is in travail, is afflicted at the approach of her pains: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, the remembrance of her anguish, is lost in her joy, that a man is born into the world.
or if a woman, that has ten pieces of money, should lose one of them, will she not light a lamp, sweep the house, and carefully search, till she find it?
women recovered their children, tho' dead, by their being raised to life again: some expired under torments, refusing to be delivered; that they might obtain a better deliverance at the resurrection.
the woman then left her water-pot, and went away into the city, and said to the people, come,
which like a dart will pierce even thro' your own soul, that thereby the sincerity of many may be revealed."
that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, from fornication, from animals that are strangled, and from their blood.
Another of his parables was this; the gospel-state is like unto leaven, which a woman took and mixt with three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
they had stings in their tails like scorpions; and they had leave to molest men for five months with their stings.
if a family be divided against it self, it is impossible for it to subsist.
and unanimously persevere in prayer with the women, Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brethren being present.
Be upon the watch, stand firm in the faith, behave your selves like men of fortitude: