...I prefer not to have among my guests two people or more, of any sex, who are in the first wild tremours of love. It is better t...o invite them after their new passion has settled, has solidified into a quieter reciprocity of emotions. (It is also a waste of good food, to serve it to new lovers.)LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are about to enter and occupy...and you defeat them, then you must utterl...y destroy them. Make no covenant with them and show them no mercy. Do not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, for that would turn away your children from following me, to serve other gods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If prophets or those who divine by dreams appear among you and promise you omens or portents, and the omens or the portents declar...ed by them take place, and they say, "Let us follow other gods" (whom you have not known) "and let us serve them," you must not heed the words of those prophets or those who divine by dreams; for the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you indeed love the LORD your God with all your heart and soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It will not be so among you; but whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among y...ou must be your slave; just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise th...e other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »