Being Single

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes, or by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, Until he please.

fear thou not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God; I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in justice, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. — read the full passage →

For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as angels in heaven.

For thus saith Jehovah of the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my covenant: — read the full passage →

Delight thyself also in Jehovah; And he will give thee the desires of thy heart.

and whatsoever we ask we receive of him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight. — read the full passage →

Now this man had four virgin daughters, who prophesied.

Seek ye out of the book of Jehovah, and read: no one of these shall be missing, none shall want her mate; for my mouth, it hath commanded, and his Spirit, it hath gathered them.

but as it is written, Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, Andwhichentered not into the heart of man, Whatsoever things God prepared for them that love him.

Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to thy word. — read the full passage →

Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to the will of God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw signs, but because ye ate of the loaves, and were filled. — read the full passage →

For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. — read the full passage →

Whom have I in heavenbut thee? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee. — read the full passage →

Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear Jehovah our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; that preserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest. — read the full passage →

In the fear of Jehovah is strong confidence; And his children shall have a place of refuge. — read the full passage →

Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids. — read the full passage →

forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth. — read the full passage →

I say unto you, that unto every one that hath shall be given; but from him that hath not, even that which he hath shall be taken away from him. — read the full passage →

Verily I say unto you, What things soever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and what things soever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. — read the full passage →

Then shall they deliver you up unto tribulation, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all the nations for my name’s sake. — read the full passage →

And every one that hath left houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit eternal life. — read the full passage →

yea, better than them both did I esteem him that hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. — read the full passage →

And if any one of the common people sin unwittingly, in doing any of the things which Jehovah hath commanded not to be done, and be guilty; — read the full passage →

And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. — read the full passage →

but I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. — read the full passage →

But Jehovah said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for Jehovah seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but Jehovah looketh on the heart. — read the full passage →

Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of Jehovah to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.

only he shall not go in unto the veil, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I am Jehovah who sanctifieth them.

and God both raised the Lord, and will raise up us through his power. — read the full passage →

because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened. — read the full passage →

teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.

For thou wilt bless the righteous; O Jehovah, thou wilt compass him with favor as with a shield.

And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we bid fire to come down from heaven, and consume them? — read the full passage →

and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigor. — read the full passage →

the younger men likewise exhort to be sober-minded: — read the full passage →

And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring in certain of the children of Israel, even of the seed royal and of the nobles; — read the full passage →

John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it have been given him from heaven. — read the full passage →

My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: — read the full passage →

The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, andwith the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the tablet of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars; — read the full passage →

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy upon men: — read the full passage →

If Jehovah delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it unto us; a land which floweth with milk and honey. — read the full passage →

And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and publicans, said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners? — read the full passage →

And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity. — read the full passage →

Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them. — read the full passage →

Whoso keepeth the commandment shall know no evil thing; and a wise man’s heart discerneth time and judgment: — read the full passage →

I will extol thee, my God, O King; And I will bless thy name for ever and ever. — read the full passage →

Give ear, O my people, to my law: Incline your ears to the words of my mouth. — read the full passage →

And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not; for who can put forth his hand against Jehovah’s anointed, and be guiltless? — read the full passage →

And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunders, saying, Hallelujah: for the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigneth. — read the full passage →

And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life even unto death. — read the full passage →

For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another. — read the full passage →

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect who are sojourners of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel, — read the full passage →

Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but refuse, that I may gain Christ, — read the full passage →

And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto Jehovah, and wept sore. — read the full passage →

And it came to pass in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that Jehovah doth make a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel. — read the full passage →

Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own heart, Hear ye the word of Jehovah: — read the full passage →

I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice. — read the full passage →

The blessing of Jehovah, it maketh rich; And he addeth no sorrow therewith. — read the full passage →

For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord; — read the full passage →

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace. — read the full passage →

All that came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. — read the full passage →

How long wilt thou go hither and thither, O thou backsliding daughter? for Jehovah hath created a new thing in the earth: A woman shall encompass a man. — read the full passage →

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity: for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor wherein thou laborest under the sun. — read the full passage →

For three things the earth doth tremble, And for four, whichit cannot bear: — read the full passage →

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; But a broken spirit who can bear? — read the full passage →

Jehovah is far from the wicked; But he heareth the prayer of the righteous. — read the full passage →

And of the children of Issachar, men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment. — read the full passage →

For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:

among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:— — read the full passage →

(for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds); — read the full passage →

Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. — read the full passage →

The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son, — read the full passage →

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day drawing nigh. — read the full passage →

But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. — read the full passage →

For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, — read the full passage →

The little one shall become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation; I, Jehovah, will hasten it in its time. — read the full passage →

And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that Jehovah thy God will set thee on high above all the nations of the earth: — read the full passage →

Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it; — read the full passage →

that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the sea-shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; — read the full passage →

After these things the word of Jehovah came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. — read the full passage →

being sore troubled because they taught the people, and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. — read the full passage →

But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you; — read the full passage →

Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. — read the full passage →

And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. — read the full passage →

That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless but for a moment? — read the full passage →

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that overcometh, to him will I give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which no one knoweth but he that receiveth it. — read the full passage →

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. — read the full passage →

Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Jehovah. — read the full passage →

For he satisfieth the longing soul, And the hungry soul he filleth with good. — read the full passage →

Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long; For they are many that fight proudly against me. — read the full passage →

Preserve me, O God; for in thee do I take refuge. — read the full passage →