If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple.
Tag: Problematic Bible Verses
Including the women and children
So the assembly sent twelve thousand fighting men with instructions to go to Jabesh Gilead and put to the sword those living there, including the women and children.
The man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery
Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Male and Female Servants
He treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.
But these you may not eat
You may eat any clean bird. But these you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,the red kite, the black kite, any kind of falcon, any kind of raven, the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, the little owl, the great owl, the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant, the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat.
And the bat
These are the birds you are to regard as unclean and not eat because they are unclean: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, the red kite, any kind of black kite, any kind of raven, the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl, the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey, the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat.
It took a line of thirty cubits to measure around it
He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to measure around it.
Wives should submit to their husbands in everything
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
Slaves, obey your earthly masters
Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.
Save for yourselves every girl
Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.