Deserted Wives

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.

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. — 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.

Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

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

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

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.

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 →

For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not commit murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. — read the full passage →

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful. — read the full passage →

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

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.”

“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? — read the full passage →

“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’

Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth, “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your salvation comes. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.’” — 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 →

But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. — read the full passage →

So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. — read the full passage →

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

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love, — read the full passage →

and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are: — read the full passage →

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God. — read the full passage →

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, — read the full passage →

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God. — read the full passage →

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,— — read the full passage →

Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?” — read the full passage →

But in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ — read the full passage →

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’ — 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.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →

“What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray? — read the full passage →

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces. — read the full passage →

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well. — read the full passage →

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

The land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all who passed by. — read the full passage →

I will feed them with good pasture; and on the mountains of the height of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they feed on the mountains of Israel. — read the full passage →

For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh, Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don’t let the rich man glory in his riches; — read the full passage →

You shall also be a crown of beauty in the hand of Yahweh, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God. — read the full passage →

The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound; — read the full passage →

let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. — read the full passage →

For Yahweh has comforted Zion; he has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me. — read the full passage →

But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.” — read the full passage →

“Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old. — read the full passage →

Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, “Be strong!”

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God. — read the full passage →

The Spirit of Yahweh will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees; — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous. — read the full passage →

My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his reproof: — read the full passage →

Yahweh is high above all nations, his glory above the heavens. — read the full passage →

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →

May God be merciful to us, bless us, and cause his face to shine on us. Selah. — read the full passage →

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. — read the full passage →

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me. — read the full passage →

I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil. — read the full passage →

Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions. — read the full passage →

My soul shall be joyful in Yahweh. It shall rejoice in his salvation. — read the full passage →

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles. — read the full passage →

Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your loving kindness. — read the full passage →

When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up. — read the full passage →

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over. — read the full passage →

Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which is Zion. — read the full passage →

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for I see not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “Blessed be he of Yahweh, who has not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead.” Naomi said to her, “The man is a close relative to us, one of our near kinsmen.”

You have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to all these nations because of you; for it is Yahweh your God who has fought for you.

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow. — read the full passage →

For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons, nor takes reward. — read the full passage →

“You shall not wrong an alien, neither shall you oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt. — read the full passage →

She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, “Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also.” She named him Simeon.

He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”

She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?” — read the full passage →

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: — 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. — read the full passage →

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. — read the full passage →

I am the good shepherd.The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. — 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 →

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land. — read the full passage →

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights. — read the full passage →

Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.

“They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man’s, will he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me,” says Yahweh. — read the full passage →

But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. — read the full passage →

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”