Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation According to the story I heard, a demon killed them. He doesn't harm Sarah, but he kills every man who tries to get near her. I am afraid of this demon. I am an only child, and if I were to die, the sorrow would send my parents to their graves. They don't even have another son to bury them." New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Now I am afraid, lest the same thing should happen to me also: and whereas I am the only child of my parents, I should bring down their old age with sorrow to hell. Tobit 6:13Ask her therefore of her father, and he will give her thee to wife. Tobit 6:14 Then Tobias answered, and said: I hear that she hath been given to seven husbands, and they all died: moreover I have heard, that a devil killed them. Tobit 6:16 Then the angel Raphael said to him: Hear me, and I will shew thee who they are, over whom the devil can prevail. Tobit 6:17 For they who in such manner receive matrimony, as to shut out God from themselves, and from their mind, and to give themselves to their lust, as the horse and mule, which have not understanding, over them the devil hath power. Context Tobit 6…14Then Tobias answered, and said: I hear that she hath been given to seven husbands, and they all died: moreover I have heard, that a devil killed them. 15Now I am afraid, lest the same thing should happen to me also: and whereas I am the only child of my parents, I should bring down their old age with sorrow to hell. 16Then the angel Raphael said to him: Hear me, and I will shew thee who they are, over whom the devil can prevail.… Cross References Tobit 6:13 Ask her therefore of her father, and he will give her thee to wife. Tobit 6:14 Then Tobias answered, and said: I hear that she hath been given to seven husbands, and they all died: moreover I have heard, that a devil killed them. Tobit 6:16 Then the angel Raphael said to him: Hear me, and I will shew thee who they are, over whom the devil can prevail. Tobit 6:17 For they who in such manner receive matrimony, as to shut out God from themselves, and from their mind, and to give themselves to their lust, as the horse and mule, which have not understanding, over them the devil hath power. |