Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation When you go into the bedroom, take the fish's heart and liver with you and place them on the burning incense, New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge 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. Tobit 6:15Now 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. 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 6:18 But thou when thou shalt take her, go into the chamber, and for three days keep thyself continent from her, and give thyself to nothing else but to prayers with her. Tobit 6:19 And on that night lay the liver of the fish on the fire, and the devil shall be driven away. Context Tobit 6…16Then the angel Raphael said to him: Hear me, and I will shew thee who they are, over whom the devil can prevail. 17For 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. 18But thou when thou shalt take her, go into the chamber, and for three days keep thyself continent from her, and give thyself to nothing else but to prayers with her.… Cross References Tobit 6:15 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 6:16 Then the angel Raphael said to him: Hear me, and I will shew thee who they are, over whom the devil can prevail. Tobit 6:18 But thou when thou shalt take her, go into the chamber, and for three days keep thyself continent from her, and give thyself to nothing else but to prayers with her. Tobit 6:19 And on that night lay the liver of the fish on the fire, and the devil shall be driven away. |