Choosing A Mate

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

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

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

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these. — read the full passage →

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

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

if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

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.

Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison. — read the full passage →

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

For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near. — read the full passage →

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

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. — read the full passage →

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

God worked special miracles by the hands of Paul,

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — read the full passage →

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.

You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men.

But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

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

Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

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

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.