Breaking Covenants

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

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

Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

“To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: “He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things: — 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.

Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? — read the full passage →

Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them. — read the full passage →

For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’ — read the full passage →

You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand, — read the full passage →

For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

She said, “No one, Lord.” Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more.”

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

After he had finished speaking in the hearing of the people, he entered into Capernaum. — read the full passage →