Finding Your Mate

Because of this I say to you, all whatever--praying--ye do ask, believe that ye receive, and it shall be to you.

`Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;

And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;

and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

And this is the boldness that we have toward Him, that if anything we may ask according to his will, He doth hear us,

for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom, — read the full passage →

and if they have not continence--let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail! — read the full passage →

A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will--only in the Lord;

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won, — read the full passage →

and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,

`Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.

And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, `Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?' — read the full passage →

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one, — read the full passage →

and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

and all--as much as ye may ask in the prayer, believing, ye shall receive.'

for as the woman <FI>is<Fi> of the man, so also the man <FI>is<Fi> through the woman, and the all things <FI>are<Fi> of God.

for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom, — read the full passage →

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover 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 Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, — read the full passage →

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

And the God of all grace, who did call you to His age-during glory in Christ Jesus, having suffered a little, Himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle <FI>you<Fi> ;

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation--unspotted to keep himself from the world.

but I--I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

`And it was said, That whoever may put away his wife, let him give to her a writing of divorce; — read the full passage →

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord; — read the full passage →

wherefore, we faint not, but if also our outward man doth decay, yet the inward is renewed day by day; — read the full passage →

who--not of blood nor of a will of flesh, nor of a will of man but--of God were begotten.

but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them; — read the full passage →

Hast thou been bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; hast thou been loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. — read the full passage →

And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made <FI>them<Fi> , from the beginning a male and a female made them, — read the full passage →

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

and another said, A wife I married, and because of this I am not able to come. — read the full passage →

and I fear, lest, as the serpent did beguile Eve in his subtilty, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that <FI>is<Fi> in the Christ;

And I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord; — read the full passage →

for there are eunuchs who from the mother's womb were so born; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who kept themselves eunuchs because of the reign of the heavens: he who is able to receive <FI> it<Fi> --let him receive.'