what's your favorite passage from this timeless classic?
>>25265972 I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
>>25265972of course the classic ezekiel 23:20:>There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.
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>>25265984based. stupid kids had it coming.
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>>25265987Is that actually easier to read for them? How? Or maybe meant to just be read out loud?
>>25265972Judges 19:22-25>While they were enjoying themselves, some of the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they shouted to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex with him.”>The owner of the house went outside and said to them, “No, my friends, don’t be so vile. Since this man is my guest, don’t do this outrageous thing.>Look, here is my virgin daughter, and his concubine. I will bring them out to you now, and you can use them and do to them whatever you wish. But as for this man, don’t do such an outrageous thing.”>But the men would not listen to him. So the man took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go
>>25265972The Sermon on the Mount
The prologue to the Gospel of John. (John 1:1-18)God’s speech from the whirlwind in Job. (Job 38-41)
>>25265981Me on the right>>25265972Mat 22:37-40 KJV “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38. This is the first and great commandment. 39. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
>>25266020thats why its fun to put it in a 1611 font and read it like a jamaican, i would want to read this tyndale translation out loud with the pronunciations tyndale would have used but i only have his spellynge to go by
>>25265981spbp
>But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.>Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.Isaiah 49:14-15
Genesis 19:30-36 is some of the best whacking material I've ever run across. Two daughters get their father drunk and have sex with him.
>>25265972"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" (Mark 8:36)
>>25265972>DEUS VULT
>>25265972Ezekiel 16:8-148 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest mine.9 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.10 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.11 I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.12 And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.13 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom.14 And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord God.Daily reminder that being a priest implies being God's bitch
Matthew 15:24But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
The part where it pretends to be the arbiter of morality, and the fools who wrote it down never stopped to think of the nature of the written word. Hilariously unthoughtful and primitive. Such dark humor has brought much suffering though. Thin line between comedy and tragedy and all.
>>25267181>t. Aalewis
Ecclesiastes 3:4-6 (NKJV)" A time to weep,And a time to laugh;A time to mourn,And a time to dance;A time to cast away stones,And a time to gather stones;A time to embrace,And a time to refrain from embracing;A time to gain,And a time to lose;A time to keep,And a time to throw away; "I am an emotional fella and often feel alone and in need to embrace someone. I feel pain and helpless when I need to be separated from embracing some people, so this excerpt makes sense to me.
JUDE11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Galatians Chapter 5: Verse 6“For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.”
