Breaking Covenants

to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.

`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.'

so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'

and to the married I announce--not I, but the Lord--let not a wife separate from a husband:

Brethren, as a man I say <FI>it<Fi> , even of man a confirmed covenant no one doth make void or doth add to,

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

Whence <FI>are<Fi> wars and fightings among you? not thence--out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

`Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.

`To the messenger of the Ephesian assembly write: These things saith he who is holding the seven stars in his right hand, who is walking in the midst of the seven lamp-stands--the golden: — read the full passage →

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;

Are ye ignorant, brethren--for to those knowing law I speak--that the law hath lordship over the man as long as he liveth? — read the full passage →

and this I say, A covenant confirmed before by God to Christ, the law, that came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not set aside, to make void the promise,

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 →

for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one <FI>point<Fi> , he hath become guilty of all;

`And it was said, That whoever may put away his wife, let him give to her a writing of divorce; — read the full passage →

Thou, therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

but even if we or a messenger out of heaven may proclaim good news to you different from what we did proclaim to you--anathema let him be!

And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that I proclaimed to you, which also ye did receive, in which also ye have stood, — read the full passage →

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;

and she said, `No one, Sir;' and Jesus said to her, `Neither do I pass sentence on thee; be going on, and no more sin.'

but I--I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

And when he completed all his sayings in the ears of the people, he went into Capernaum; — read the full passage →