Adultery In The Church

`And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

`A generation evil and adulterous doth seek a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet;' and having left them he went away.

but I--I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

`Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.

and he saith to them, `Whoever may put away his wife, and may marry another, doth commit adultery against her;

if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate--

for, `Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false testimony, Thou shalt not covet;' and if there is any other command, in this word it is summed up, in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;'

`Happy the meek--because they shall inherit the land.

Ministrants--let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, — read the full passage →

and now, I did write to you not to keep company with <FI>him<Fi> , if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner--with such a one not even to eat together;

for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;

And to the rest I speak--not the Lord--if any brother hath a wife unbelieving, and she is pleased to dwell with him, let him not send her away; — read the full passage →

but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.

And, if the unbelieving doth separate himself--let him separate himself: the brother or the sister is not under servitude in such <FI>cases<Fi> , and in peace hath God called us;

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

And the Pharisees, having come near, questioned him, if it is lawful for a husband to put away a wife, tempting him, — read the full passage →

Having, therefore, brethren, boldness for the entrance into the holy places, in the blood of Jesus, — read the full passage →

and having found him, he brought him to Antioch, and it came to pass that they a whole year did assemble together in the assembly, and taught a great multitude, the disciples also were divinely called first in Antioch Christians.

And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, `Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?' — read the full passage →

`And it was said, That whoever may put away his wife, let him give to her a writing of divorce; — read the full passage →