Gay Marriages

“‘You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.

“‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. — 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 →

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

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

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

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

Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places. There will be terrors and great signs from heaven. — read the full passage →

He shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease; and on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, shall wrath be poured out on the desolate.

Through his policy he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and he shall destroy many in their security. He shall also stand up against the prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.

Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh? Because of this, wrath is on you from before Yahweh. — read the full passage →

The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth, — read the full passage →

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. — read the full passage →

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, — read the full passage →

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them. — read the full passage →

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

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

The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent;

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned. — read the full passage →

Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! — read the full passage →

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts. — read the full passage →

He said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel spoke to me by Yahweh’s word, saying, ‘Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.’” He lied to him. — read the full passage →

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

Yet the children of Manasseh couldn’t drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land. — read the full passage →

“‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, the same blasphemes Yahweh. That soul shall be cut off from among his people.

He shall not come near to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a defect; that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.’”

Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you. — read the full passage →

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? — read the full passage →

Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread. — read the full passage →

Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you, — read the full passage →

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more. — read the full passage →

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me. — read the full passage →

I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me. — read the full passage →

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died. — read the full passage →

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. — read the full passage →

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent. — 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 consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us. — read the full passage →

For I delight in God’s law after the inward man, — read the full passage →

Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), “Let us do evil, that good may come?” Those who say so are justly condemned. — read the full passage →

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; — read the full passage →

But some of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, took on themselves to invoke over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, “We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.” — read the full passage →

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the Kingdom of God. — read the full passage →

When they had brought them, they set them before the council. The high priest questioned them, — read the full passage →

being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. — read the full passage →

Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it. — read the full passage →

They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor. — read the full passage →

Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you. — read the full passage →

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

but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea. — read the full passage →

I also tell you that you are Peter,and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hadeswill not prevail against it. — read the full passage →

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’ — read the full passage →

“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 →

I said, “Let them set a clean turban on his head.” So they set a clean turban on his head, and clothed him; and Yahweh’s angel was standing by. — read the full passage →

Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he doesn’t turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul. — read the full passage →

Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, and for the blood of your children, that you gave to them; — read the full passage →

When I tell the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand. — read the full passage →

We have heard of the pride of Moab. He is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart. — read the full passage →

Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says Yahweh. — read the full passage →

“I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask; I am found by those who didn’t seek me: I said, See me, see me, to a nation that was not called by my name. — read the full passage →

Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction. — read the full passage →

The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning? — read the full passage →

who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and to the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits. — 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 →

A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart. — read the full passage →

Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts. — read the full passage →

A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool. — read the full passage →

When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. — read the full passage →

By the blessing of the upright, the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked. — read the full passage →

Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck! — read the full passage →

Make a joyful shout to God, all the earth! — read the full passage →

For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him. — read the full passage →

Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, “Put your belt on your waist, take this vial of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead. — read the full passage →

When Yahweh was about to take Elijah up by a whirlwind into heaven, Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal. — read the full passage →

At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. — read the full passage →

“Your glory, Israel, is slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen! — read the full passage →

When Saul was returned from following the Philistines, it was told him, saying, “Behold, David is in the wilderness of En Gedi.” — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s ark was in the country of the Philistines seven months. — read the full passage →

Therefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.” — read the full passage →

The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock will be cursed. — read the full passage →

‘Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’ — read the full passage →

When Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than you; — read the full passage →

You shall not fear them; for Yahweh your God himself fights for you.” — read the full passage →

He took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel. — read the full passage →

They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.” — read the full passage →

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. — read the full passage →

For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon. — read the full passage →

Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds who can’t understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter. — read the full passage →

‘They will take away your sons who will issue from you, whom you shall father, and they will be eunuchs in the king of Babylon’s palace.’” — read the full passage →