Cousins Marrying

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

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. — read the full passage →

The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy. — read the full passage →

Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.

So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: — read the full passage →

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. — read the full passage →

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father’s nakedness.

Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.

In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.

I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: — read the full passage →

Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; — read the full passage →

It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.

Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. — read the full passage →

Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews: — read the full passage →

Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek.

That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

Is not this the carpenter’s son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?

While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him.

And when Jesus was come into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother laid, and sick of a fever.

Arise, go to Padan–aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother.

And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. — read the full passage →

But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. — read the full passage →

And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: — read the full passage →

And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. — read the full passage →

Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:

And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.

For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; — read the full passage →

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. — read the full passage →

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; — read the full passage →

For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; — read the full passage →

Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;

For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, — read the full passage →

Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;

But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds: — read the full passage →

For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,

Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;

Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:

For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. — read the full passage →

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.

Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. — read the full passage →

Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.

As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine,

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope;

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Abstain from all appearance of evil.

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: — read the full passage →

In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: — read the full passage →

In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: — read the full passage →

And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother,

Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: — read the full passage →

Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ; — read the full passage →

That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;