Desertion

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.

For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts; — 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.

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

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

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

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.

(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater; — read the full passage →

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 →

so shall my word be that goes out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you; — read the full passage →

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,

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

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

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.”

Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.’”

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

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.

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

For all these things has my hand made, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed? — read the full passage →

“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him. — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s testimony is sure, making wise the simple.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

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

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”; — read the full passage →

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;

I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all.

Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

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

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

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.

Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin. Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages, but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations; to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

Paul wanted to have him go out with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living oracles to give to us,

Joses, who by the apostles was also called Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

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.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you; — read the full passage →

“When the Counselorhas come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me. — read the full passage →

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

Jesus said therefore to the twelve, “You don’t also want to go away, do you?”

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

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

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

But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God.”

Other fell into the good ground, and grew, and produced one hundred times as much fruit.” As he said these things, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

They said, “Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her.”

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

They asked him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?” — read the full passage →

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him. — read the full passage →

In the eleventh year, in the first of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, — read the full passage →

Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is no one else; I am God, and there is none like me; — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: “You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, and you command me concerning the work of my hands!

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? — read the full passage →

Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night. — read the full passage →

When they brought out the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house, Hilkiah the priest found the book of Yahweh’s law given by Moses.

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

The rest of the dead didn’t live until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — 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 →

But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”