Breaking Covenants

To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

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.

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

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

Brethren, I speak after the manner of men: Though it be but a man’s covenant, yet when it hath been confirmed, no one maketh it void, or addeth thereto.

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

Whence comewars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?

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.

To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, he that walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks: — read the full passage →

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.

Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he liveth? — read the full passage →

Now this I say: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not disannul, so as to make the promise of none effect.

And he arose from thence, and cometh into the borders of Judæa and beyond the Jordan: and multitudes come together unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again. — read the full passage →

For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is become guilty of all.

It was said also, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: — read the full passage →

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

But though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach unto you any gospel other than that which we preached unto you, let him be anathema.

Now I make known unto you brethren, the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye received, wherein also ye stand, — read the full passage →

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.

And she said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said, Neither do I condemn thee: go thy way; from henceforth sin no more.]

but I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

After he had ended all his sayings in the ears of the people, he entered into Capernaum. — read the full passage →