Black And White Marriages

He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. — read the full passage →

My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.

Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision. — read the full passage →

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman. — read the full passage →

They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation, — read the full passage →

But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. What they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, they are destroyed in these things.

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →

Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers. — read the full passage →

This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, — read the full passage →

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, — read the full passage →

But we know that the law is good, if a man uses it lawfully,

If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error; — read the full passage →

For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition, — read the full passage →

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. — read the full passage →

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified? — read the full passage →

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage; — read the full passage →

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ. — read the full passage →

As we have said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches to you any “good news” other than that which you received, let him be cursed.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles. — read the full passage →

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

Have we no right to eat and to drink? — read the full passage →

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, — read the full passage →

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

So then each one of us will give account of himself to God. — read the full passage →

Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God. — read the full passage →

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace; — read the full passage →

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

For there is no partiality with God.

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things: — read the full passage →

But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, don’t you call unclean.’

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

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. — read the full passage →

Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness. — read the full passage →

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

and the two will become one flesh,so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. — read the full passage →

No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins.”

For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.

“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?” — read the full passage →

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

Thus says Yahweh, Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don’t let the rich man glory in his riches; — read the full passage →

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of Yahweh, and their righteousness which is of me,” says Yahweh.

You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck. — read the full passage →

I am dark, but lovely, you daughters of Jerusalem, like Kedar’s tents, like Solomon’s curtains.

“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him. — read the full passage →

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.

You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son. — read the full passage →

So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and Yahweh gave her conception, and she bore a son. — read the full passage →

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked. — read the full passage →

Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.

God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

“Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →

He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.