Breaking Covenants

When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou vowest. — read the full passage →

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.

Again the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, — read the full passage →

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.

Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

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 →

That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God:

And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which Jehovah hath commanded. — 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 the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

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 →

And ye were now turned, and had done that which is right in mine eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name: — read the full passage →

For we are all become as one that is unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as a polluted garment: and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

And yet for all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal unto it.

Ye shall make you no idols, neither shall ye rear you up a graven image, or a pillar, neither shall ye place any figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am Jehovah your God. — read the full passage →

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

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 →

But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned, and the sword come, and take any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.

Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there was gathered together unto him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very sore. — read the full passage →

And Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them.

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.]

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s.

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

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.

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

And Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them. — read the full passage →

When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →

God is not a man, that he should lie, Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Hath he said, and will he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and will he not make it good?

And the woman said unto the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat:

Yet I have set my king Upon my holy hill of Zion. — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, when all the kings that were beyond the Jordan, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof; — read the full passage →

When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →

then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.

And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do. — read the full passage →

Thou shalt not steal.

Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

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

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.

The friendship of Jehovah is with them that fear him; And he will show them his covenant.

And Jehovah said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the harlot after the strange gods of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that Jehovah thy God will set thee on high above all the nations of the earth: — read the full passage →

If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married without unto a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother unto her. — read the full passage →

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

Will a man rob God? yet ye rob me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. — read the full passage →

And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →