Being Single

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 →

for when they may rise out of the dead, they neither marry nor are they given in marriage, but are as messengers who are in the heavens.

and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do, — read the full passage →

and this one had four daughters, virgins, prophesying.

but, according as it hath been written, `What eye did not see, and ear did not hear, and upon the heart of man came not up, what God did prepare for those loving Him--'

feed the flock of God that <FI>is<Fi> among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind,

Philip saith to him, `Sir, shew to us the Father, and it is enough for us;' — read the full passage →

Jesus answered them and said, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw signs, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were satisfied; — read the full passage →

forbidding to marry--to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth, — read the full passage →

for I say to you, that to every one having shall be given, and from him not having, also what he hath shall be taken from him, — read the full passage →

`Verily I say to you, Whatever things ye may bind upon the earth shall be having been bound in the heavens, and whatever things ye may loose on the earth shall be having been loosed in the heavens. — read the full passage →

then they shall deliver you up to tribulation, and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated by all the nations because of my name; — read the full passage →

and every one who left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for my name's sake, an hundredfold shall receive, and life age-during shall inherit; — read the full passage →

and another said, A wife I married, and because of this I am not able to come. — read the full passage →

but I--I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart. — read the full passage →

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

because, having known God they did not glorify <FI>Him<Fi> as God, nor gave thanks, but were made vain in their reasonings, and their unintelligent heart was darkened, — read the full passage →

teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days--till the full end of the age.'

And his disciples James and John having seen, said, `Sir, wilt thou <FI>that<Fi> we may command fire to come down from the heaven, and to consume them, as also Elijah did?' — read the full passage →

The younger men, in like manner, be exhorting to be sober-minded; — read the full passage →

John answered and said, `A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven; — read the full passage →

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one, — read the full passage →

And the scribes and the Pharisees, having seen him eating with the tax-gatherers and sinners, said to his disciples, `Why--that with the tax-gatherers and sinners he doth eat and drink?' — read the full passage →

and I heard as the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, `Alleluia! because reign did the Lord God--the Almighty! — read the full passage →

and they did overcome him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life--unto death; — read the full passage →

For ye--to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another, — read the full passage →

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the choice sojourners of the dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

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

yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him, — read the full passage →

for let not that man suppose that he shall receive anything from the Lord-- — read the full passage →

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

all, as many as came before me, are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them; — read the full passage →

for our exhortation <FI>is<Fi> not out of deceit, nor out of uncleanness, nor in guile,

among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath--as also the others, — read the full passage →

for the weapons of our warfare <FI>are<Fi> not fleshly, but powerful to God for bringing down of strongholds, — read the full passage →

but in the most of them God was not well pleased, for they were strewn in the wilderness, — read the full passage →

`The reign of the heavens was likened to a man, a king, who made marriage-feasts for his son, — read the full passage →

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain <FI>is<Fi> , but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh. — read the full passage →

and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness;

wherefore, we faint not, but if also our outward man doth decay, yet the inward is renewed day by day; — read the full passage →

for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders, — read the full passage →

being grieved because of their teaching the people, and preaching in Jesus the rising again out of the dead-- — read the full passage →

And, take ye heed of men, for they will give you up to sanhedrims, and in their synagogues they will scourge you, — read the full passage →

He who is having an ear--let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies: To him who is overcoming, I will give to him to eat from the hidden manna, and will give to him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, that no one knew except him who is receiving <FI>it<Fi> . — read the full passage →

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →