²⁸ If, however, the woman has not made herself impure, but is clean, she will be cleared of guilt and will be able to have children.

⁷ These have come so that the proven genuineness^(A) of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire^(B)—may result in praise, glory and honor^(C) when Jesus Christ is revealed.^(D)

¹⁷ For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.^(A)

Israel Will Rise

¹⁹ Then the priest shall put the woman under oath and say to her, “If no other man has had sexual relations with you and you have not gone astray^(A) and become impure while married to your husband, may this bitter water that brings a curse^(B) not harm you.