¹¹ and he saith to them, `Whoever may put away his wife, and may marry another, doth commit adultery against her;

¹² and if a woman may put away her husband, and is married to another, she committeth adultery.'

¹³ And they were bringing to him children, that he might touch them, and the disciples were rebuking those bringing them,

¹⁴ A deep pit `is' the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there.

¹⁶ And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;

¹⁷ for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will -- these ye may not do;

¹⁸ and if by the Spirit ye are led, ye are not under law.

¹⁹ for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings:

³² but I -- I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

³ For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil `is' her mouth,

⁴ And her latter end `is' bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword `with' mouths.

⁵ Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of.

⁶ The path of life -- lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths -- thou knowest not.

⁷ And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth.

⁸ Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house,

⁹ Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce,

¹⁰ Lest strangers be filled `with' thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger,

⁴ honourable `is' the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

³ For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil `is' her mouth,

⁴ And her latter end `is' bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword `with' mouths.

⁵ Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of.

⁶ The path of life -- lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths -- thou knowest not.

⁷ And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth.

²¹ and I did give to her a time that she might reform from her whoredom, and she did not reform;

²² lo, I will cast her into a couch, and those committing adultery with her into great tribulation -- if they may not repent of their works,

²³ and her children I will kill in death, and know shall all the assemblies that I am he who is searching reins and hearts; and I will give to you -- to each -- according to your works.

¹⁸ `Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.

⁴ Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

²⁷ Doth a man take fire into his bosom, And are his garments not burnt?

²⁸ Doth a man walk on the hot coals, And are his feet not scorched?

²⁹ So `is' he who hath gone in unto the wife of his neighbour, None who doth touch her is innocent.

³⁰ They do not despise the thief, When he stealeth to fill his soul when he is hungry,

¹⁸ flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

¹⁹ A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.

²⁰ And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?

²¹ For over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering.

¹⁹ And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

²⁰ idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects,

²¹ envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.

²² And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

⁸ Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house,

⁹ Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce,

¹⁰ Lest strangers be filled `with' thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger,

¹¹ And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food,

¹² And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,

¹³ And I have not hearkened to the voice of my directors, And to my teachers have not inclined mine ear.

¹⁴ As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a company.

¹⁵ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well.

³² He who committeth adultery `with' a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.

³² He who committeth adultery `with' a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.

³³ A stroke and shame he doth find, And his reproach is not wiped away,

³⁴ For jealousy `is' the fury of a man, And he doth not spare in a day of vengeance.

³⁵ He accepteth not the appearance of any atonement, Yea, he doth not consent, Though thou dost multiply bribes!

²⁷ `Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not commit adultery;

²⁸ but I -- I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

²⁹ `But, if thy right eye doth cause thee to stumble, pluck it out and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna.

¹⁸ For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths.

¹⁹ None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life.

²⁰ That thou dost go in the way of the good, And the paths of the righteous dost keep.

⁴ they say to him, `Teacher, this woman was taken in the very crime -- committing adultery,

⁵ and in the law, Moses did command us that such be stoned; thou, therefore, what dost thou say?'

⁶ and this they said, trying him, that they might have to accuse him. And Jesus, having stooped down, with the finger he was writing on the ground,

⁷ and when they continued asking him, having bent himself back, he said unto them, `The sinless of you -- let him first cast the stone at her;'

⁸ and again having stooped down, he was writing on the ground,

⁹ and they having heard, and by the conscience being convicted, were going forth one by one, having begun from the elders -- unto the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

¹⁰ And Jesus having bent himself back, and having seen no one but the woman, said to her, `Woman, where are those -- thine accusers? did no one pass sentence upon thee?'

¹¹ and she said, `No one, Sir;' and Jesus said to her, `Neither do I pass sentence on thee; be going on, and no more sin.'

¹² Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'