Topic
Getting Married
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Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
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 →
Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →
Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.
When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. — 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?
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;
“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
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 →
Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. — read the full passage →
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.
He said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God’s sake, — read the full passage →
Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? — 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 →
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
His disciples said to him, “If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.” — read the full passage →
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.”
What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.
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 →
Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.
“‘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.
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
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.
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 →
the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. — read the full passage →
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.
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
Take wives, and father sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and don’t be diminished.
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”
Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.
Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
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 from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.
Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there. — read the full passage →
When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another. — read the full passage →
This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand. — read the full passage →
Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things. — read the full passage →
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 →
Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. — 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.
Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone? — read the full passage →
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.
God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
“If a man entices a virgin who isn’t pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.
Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. — read the full passage →
Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.” — read the full passage →
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 →
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? — read the full passage →
“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.
Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? — read the full passage →
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →
I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.
Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.
A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.
God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →
“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.” — read the full passage →
For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly; — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. — read the full passage →
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →
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. — read the full passage →
For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
and the two will become one flesh,so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. — read the full passage →
and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’
Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” — read the full passage →
Let us rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let us give the glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.” — read the full passage →
I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. — 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.”
Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant. — read the full passage →
I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, “Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape. — read the full passage →
For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.
The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →
Joash did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh all the days of Jehoiada the priest. — read the full passage →
When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →
“‘If a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burned with fire, both he and they; that there may be no wickedness among you.
Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, “Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.” — read the full passage →
The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →
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