For the Lord gave her no child in her affliction, and according to the despondency of her affliction; and she was dispirited on this account, that the Lord had shut up her womb so as not to give her a child.

And Elkanah her husband said to her, Anna; and she said to him, Here am I, my lord. And he said to her, What ails you that you weep? And why do you not eat? And why does your heart smite you? Am I not better to you than ten children?

And it came to pass as the ark arrived at the City of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked through the window, and saw King David dancing and playing before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart.

Such is the way of an adulterous woman, who having washed herself from what she has done, says she has done nothing amiss.

By three things the earth is troubled, and for four it cannot bear:

or if a maid-servant should cast out her own mistress, and if a hateful woman should marry a good man.

Now these things, brothers, I have figuratively applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, in order that you may learn in us not to think beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up on behalf of one against the other.

Love is patient, love is kind; love does not envy; love does not boast, is not puffed up;

does not behave disgracefully, does not seek its own, is not provoked to anger, thinks no evil;