sexual abuse

⁶But whoever will have led astray one of these little ones, who trust in me, it would be better for him to have a great millstone hung around his neck, and to be submerged in the depths of the sea.

¹⁰And the Lord has become a refuge for the poor, a helper in opportunity, in tribulation.

²⁸Come to me, all you who labor and have been burdened, and I will refresh you.

¹I turned myself to other things, and I saw the false accusations which are carried out under the sun, and the tears of the innocent, and that there was no one to console them; and that they were not able to withstand their violence, being destitute of all help.

⁴⁰And in response, the King shall say to them, ‘Amen I say to you, whenever you did this for one of these, the least of my brothers, you did it for me.’

³Judge for the indigent and the orphan. Do justice to the humble and the poor.

⁴He will judge the poor of the people, and he will bring salvation to the sons of the poor. And he will humble the false accuser.

¹⁷Learn to do good. Seek judgment, support the oppressed, judge for the orphan, defend the widow.

⁴⁵Then he shall respond to them by saying: ‘Amen I say to you, whenever you did not do it to one of these least, neither did you do it to me.’

¹¹Yet the earth was corrupted before the eyes of God, and it was filled with iniquity.

¹⁸“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; because of this, he has anointed me. He has sent me to evangelize the poor, to heal the contrite of heart, ¹⁹to preach forgiveness to captives and sight to the blind, to release the broken into forgiveness, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of retribution.”

³Why have you revealed to me iniquity and hardship, to see plunder and injustice opposite me? And there has been judgment, but the opposition is more powerful.

¹Woe to those who make unfair laws, and who, when writing, write injustice: ²in order to oppress the poor in judgment, and to do violence to the case of the humble of my people, in order that widows may be their prey, and that they might plunder the orphan.

¹⁹You shall not approach a woman who is undergoing menstruation, nor shall you uncover her foulness. ²⁰You shall not have sexual intercourse with your neighbor’s wife, nor shall you be defiled by the mingling of seed. ²¹You shall not give some of your seed to be consecrated to the idol Moloch, nor to pollute the name of your God. I am the Lord. ²²You shall not commit sexual acts with a male, in place of sexual intercourse with a female, for this is an abomination. ²³You shall not commit sexual acts with any animal, nor shall you be defiled by it. A woman shall not lie down with a beast, nor commit sexual acts with it; for this is wickedness.

¹²For I know your many wicked deeds and the strength of your sins, you enemies of the just, accepting bribes, and depriving the poor at the gate.

²⁴Truly, O God, you will lead them away into the well of death. Bloody and deceitful men will not divide their days in half. But I will hope in you, O Lord.

²⁸So, too, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹For no man has ever hated his own flesh, but instead he nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also does to the Church.

²⁵Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church and handed himself over for her,

⁷And also Sodom and Gomorrah, and the adjoining cities, in similar ways, having given themselves over to fornication and to the pursuing of other flesh, were made an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

⁴²And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off: it is better for you to enter into life disabled, than having two hands to go into Hell, into the unquenchable fire,

²It would be better for him if a millstone were placed around his neck and he were thrown into the sea, than to lead astray one of these little ones.