Being Unmarried

but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. — read the full passage →

but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.

For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

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

And Peter said unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth one that is put away from a husband committeth adultery.

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

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

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

But I would have you to be free from cares. He that is unmarried is careful for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord: — read the full passage →

Yet if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us in peace.

(but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.

For there are eunuchs, that were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are eunuchs, that were made eunuchs by men: and there are eunuchs, that made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.

But he said unto them, Not all men can receive this saying, but they to whom it is given. — read the full passage →

He saith unto them, Moses for your hardness of heart suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it hath not been so.

And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?

A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.

Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, — read the full passage →

Ye heard how I said to you, I go away, and I come unto you. If ye loved me, ye would have rejoiced, because I go unto the Father: for the Father is greater than I.

I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for except ye believe that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.

I can of myself do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is righteous; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

He that overcometh shall inherit these things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. — read the full passage →

And he hath on his garment and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

And his eyes are a flame of fire, and upon his head are many diadems; and he hath a name written which no one knoweth but he himself. — read the full passage →

For there are certain men crept in privily, even they who were of old written of beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Beloved, imitate not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou dost not commit adultery, but killest, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

By faith Abraham, being tried, offered up Isaac: yea, he that had gladly received the promises was offering up his only begotten son;

By faith Abraham, being tried, offered up Isaac: yea, he that had gladly received the promises was offering up his only begotten son; — read the full passage →

But of which of the angels hath he said at any time, Sit thou on my right hand, Till I make thine enemies the footstool of thy feet?

who being the effulgence of his glory, and the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

hath at the end of these days spoken unto us in his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds; — read the full passage →

if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.

if we endure, we shall also reign with him: if we shall deny him, he also will deny us:

Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name which is above every name;

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; — read the full passage →

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.

in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn upon them.

yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him.

For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth; as there are gods many, and lords many;

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that oneof you hath his father’s wife.

For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? — read the full passage →

But Peter and the apostles answered and said, We must obey God rather than men.

saying, We strictly charged you not to teach in this name: and behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.

Moses indeed said, A prophet shall the Lord God raise up unto you from among your brethren, like unto me; to him shall ye hearken in all things whatsoever he shall speak unto you.

and killed the Prince of life; whom God raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.

And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this man? or why fasten ye your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him to walk? — read the full passage →

whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. — read the full passage →

Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God unto you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him in the midst of you, even as ye yourselves know;

And when the day of Pentecost was now come, they were all together in one place. — read the full passage →

to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.

Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.

When therefore he said unto them, I am he, they went backward, and fell to the ground.

Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were coming upon him, went forth, and saith unto them, Whom seek ye? — read the full passage →

Neither for these only do I pray, but for them also that believe on me through their word; — read the full passage →

And now, Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.

From henceforth I tell you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, A servant is not greater than his lord; neither one that is sent greater than he that sent him.

Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? — read the full passage →

The Jews answered him, For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.

The Jews took up stones again to stone him. — read the full passage →

I and the Father are one. — read the full passage →

I and the Father are one.

My Father, who hath given them unto me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.

and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand. — read the full passage →

it was winter; and Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon’s porch.

Others said, It is he: others said, No, but he is like him. He said, I am he.

Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was born, I am.

Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Every one that committeth sin is the bondservant of sin.

Jesus therefore said, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself, but as the Father taught me, I speak these things.

Yea and in your law it is written, that the witness of two men is true. — read the full passage →

For this is the will of my Father, that every one that beholdeth the Son, and believeth on him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. — read the full passage →

But he saith unto them, It is I; be not afraid.