Finding Your Mate

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

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

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

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

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.

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 →

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.

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

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

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

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 →

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

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

For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.

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

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

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — 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?

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

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

“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’ — read the full passage →

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

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. — read the full passage →

who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. — read the full passage →

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

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

“Another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I can’t come.’ — read the full passage →

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

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 →

For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.”