Controversial Sayings

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires.

All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.

Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death.

If anyone injures his neighbor, as he has done it shall be done to him, fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever injury he has given a person shall be given to him.

For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.

A man or a woman who is a medium or a necromancer shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones; their blood is upon them.

Anyone who shows contempt for the judge or for the priest who stands ministering there to the Lord your God is to be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel.

He who kidnaps a man and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, shall surely be put to death.

He who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

You shall keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you. Everyone who profanes it shall be put to death. Whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang his body on a tree, his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is cursed by God.

But if a man lies with a female slave who is betrothed to another man, but has not been ransomed or given her freedom, a distinction shall be made. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free; but he shall offer a trespass offering to th…

A woman must quietly receive instruction with entire submissiveness. But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet.

For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve. And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression.

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…