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Dating While Separated
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Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
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.
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. — read the full passage →
When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →
He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.
but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”
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 →
For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.
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.
But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband
and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.
He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her. — read the full passage →
“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’ — read the full passage →
Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.
speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”
Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?
Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
Abstain from every form of evil.
But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
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 →
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 →
Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? — 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? — read the full passage →
But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her. — read the full passage →
Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →
But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven,but my Father only.
He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →
But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.
But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; — read the full passage →
Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”
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, — read the full passage →
Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →
But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →
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.
But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →
Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.
Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.
Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife. — read the full passage →
Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.
Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except one—God.
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →
“You shall not commit adultery.
Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” — read the full passage →
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ — read the full passage →
Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →
Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger; — read the full passage →
Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”
But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. — read the full passage →
Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
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 →
He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
God spoke all these words, saying, — read the full passage →
In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. — read the full passage →
Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy; — 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?
For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
For everything spoken by God is possible.”
A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.
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