Finding Your Mate

Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: — read the full passage →

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

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

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. — read the full passage →

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

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; — read the full passage →

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? — read the full passage →

My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: — read the full passage →

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.

For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: — read the full passage →

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the 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 Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, — read the full passage →

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: — read the full passage →

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. — read the full passage →

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. — read the full passage →

Which 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 →

Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. — read the full passage →

And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. — read the full passage →

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: — read the full passage →

For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.