A Facebook user has kicked off a storm after posting a bible verse that many deemed to be sexist.
The verse, from New English Translation bible, implies that being unmarried is shameful.
It says: “Seven women will grab hold of one man at that time. They will say, ‘We will provide our
own food, we will provide our own clothes; but let us belong to you–take away our shame!’”
While some women were miffed by the verse, the men were upbeat, with at least one anticipating
“that time”. One said: “That was in the old days when women were ‘nothing’, or rather, when the writers of the Bible made women nothing, just elevating one here, another there. This is 2017…no woman is going to walk up to any man and say, ‘Please let me say…so I won’t have to endure the shame of being

One said: “That was in the old days when women were ‘nothing’, or rather, when the writers of the Bible made women nothing, just elevating one here, another there. This is 2017…no woman is going to walk up to any man and say, ‘Please let me say…so I won’t have to endure the shame of being
unmarried.” it’s not a shame to be unmarried.” Another overzealous fan asked: “Has that time reached?”

Another added: “You can be so misleading at times!”, while another said, “Thank God I know that
time has passed never to return!!”

Another explained: “Now, read the Preluding chapter to 4 and tell us what it says… Also give
reasons as to why it reaches that point… (Because of the woman) Quote “And her gates shall
lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground. Isaiah:3:26.”

via NN