Bigamy

And Lamech taketh to himself two wives, the name of the one Adah, and the name of the second Zillah.

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

`for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh;'

And he doth not multiply to himself wives, and his heart doth not turn aside, and silver and gold he doth not multiply to himself--exceedingly.

`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.'

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God;

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

He saith to them--`Moses for your stiffness of heart did suffer you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it hath not been so.

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

and Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, into transgression came,

whoremongers, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that to sound doctrine is adverse,

The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;

A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will--only in the Lord;

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 →

have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? `for they shall be--saith He--the two for one flesh.'

Wherefore it is necessary to be subject, not only because of the wrath, but also because of the conscience,

and I give to thee the house of thy lord, and the wives of thy lord, into thy bosom, and I give to thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if little, then I add to thee such and such <FI>things<Fi> .

`If another <FI>woman<Fi> he take for him, her food, her covering, and her habitation, he doth not withdraw;

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

Happy and holy <FI>is<Fi> he who is having part in the first rising again; over these the second death hath not authority, but they shall be priests of God and of the Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

neither as exercising lordship over the heritages, but patterns becoming of the flock,

whether to governors, as to those sent through him, for punishment, indeed, of evil-doers, and a praise of those doing good;

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

if we do endure together--we shall also reign together; if we deny <FI>him<Fi> , he also shall deny us;

(and if any one his own house <FI>how<Fi> to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth;

and a woman I do not suffer to teach, nor to rule a husband, but to be in quietness,

Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection,

the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;

and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, <FI>do<Fi> all things in the name of the Lord Jesus--giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.

and every tongue may confess that Jesus Christ <FI>is<Fi> Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

and if a woman may put away her husband, and is married to another, she committeth adultery.'

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

And God saith, `Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.'

who is at the right hand of God, having gone on to heaven--messengers, and authorities, and powers, having been subjected to him.

for thus once also the holy women who did hope on God, were adorning themselves, being subject to their own husbands,

but--the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible thing of the meek and quiet spirit, which is, before God, of great price,

whose adorning--let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments,

because, so is the will of God, doing good, to put to silence the ignorance of the foolish men;

Be subject, then, to every human creation, because of the Lord, whether to a king, as the highest,

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation--unspotted to keep himself from the world.

Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this <FI>is<Fi> unprofitable to you.

looking to the author and perfecter of faith--Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him--did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;

through being a Son, did learn by the things which he suffered--the obedience,

And unto which of the messengers said He ever, `Sit at My right hand, till I may make thine enemies thy footstool?'

not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,

and she shall be saved through the child-bearing, if they remain in faith, and love, and sanctification, with sobriety.

for Adam was first formed, then Eve,

and he who is doing unrighteously shall receive what he did unrighteously, and there is no acceptance of persons.

having known that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance--for the Lord Christ ye serve;

and all, whatever ye may do--out of soul work--as to the Lord, and not to men,

As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <FI>are<Fi> grave, as many as <FI>are<Fi> righteous, as many as <FI>are<Fi> pure, as many as <FI>are<Fi> lovely, as many as <FI>are<Fi> of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;

wherefore, also, God did highly exalt him, and gave to him a name that <FI>is<Fi> above every name,

and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death--death even of a cross,

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

on every first <FI>day<Fi> of the week, let each one of you lay by him, treasuring up whatever he may have prospered, that when I may come then collections may not be made;

but neither <FI>is<Fi> a man apart from a woman, nor a woman apart from a man, in the Lord,

because of this the woman ought to have <FI>a token of<Fi> authority upon the head, because of the messengers;

for a man also was not created because of the woman, but a woman because of the man;

for a man is not of a woman, but a woman <FI>is<Fi> of a man,

for a man, indeed, ought not to cover the head, being the image and glory of God, and a woman is the glory of a man,

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 →

for of God it is a ministrant to thee for good; and if that which is evil thou mayest do, be fearing, for not in vain doth it bear the sword; for of God it is a ministrant, an avenger for wrath to him who is doing that which is evil.

so that he who is setting himself against the authority, against God's ordinance hath resisted; and those resisting, to themselves shall receive judgment.

Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God,

so, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man's; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man's.

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;

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature; — read the full passage →

And after certain days, Felix having come with Drusilla his wife, being a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith toward Christ,

for David, indeed, his own generation having served by the will of God, did fall asleep, and was added unto his fathers, and saw corruption,

this one God, a Prince and a Saviour, hath exalted with His right hand, to give reformation to Israel, and forgiveness of sins;

And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;

saying, `Did not we strictly command you not to teach in this name? and lo, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and ye intend to bring upon us the blood of this man.'

And being let go, they went unto their own friends, and declared whatever the chief priests and the elders said unto them,

and Peter having seen, answered unto the people, `Men, Israelites! why wonder ye at this? or on us why look ye so earnestly, as if by our own power or piety we have made him to walk?

to receive the share of this ministration and apostleship, from which Judas, by transgression, did fall, to go on to his proper place;'

ye heard that I said to you--I go away, and I come unto you; if ye did love me, ye would have rejoiced that I said--I go on to the Father, because my Father is greater than I.

`I have come in the name of my Father, and ye do not receive me; if another may come in his own name, him ye will receive;

`I am not able of myself to do anything; according as I hear I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.

Jesus therefore responded and said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything of himself, if he may not see the Father doing anything; for whatever things He may do, these also the Son in like manner doth;

because of this, then, were the Jews seeking the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the sabbath, but he also called God his own Father, making himself equal to God.

for Jesus himself testified that a prophet in his own country shall not have honour;

this one doth first find his own brother Simon, and saith to him, `We have found the Messiah,' (which is, being interpreted, The Anointed,)

henceforth, there shall be the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of the power of God.'

and having called ten servants of his own, he gave to them ten pounds, and said unto them, Do business--till I come;

`And into whatever city ye do enter, and they may not receive you, having gone forth to its broad places, say, — read the full passage →

`And why dost thou behold the mote that is in thy brother's eye, and the beam that <FI>is<Fi> in thine own eye dost not consider?

as a man who is gone abroad, having left his house, and given to his servants the authority, and to each one his work, did command also the porter that he may watch;

and they shall be--the two--for one flesh; so that they are no more two, but one flesh;

on this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife,

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

And having risen thence, he doth come to the coasts of Judea, through the other side of the Jordan, and again do multitudes come together unto him, and, as he had been accustomed, again he was teaching them. — read the full passage →

`Watch therefore, for ye have not known the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man doth come.