Having A Baby Out Of Wedlock

A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

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

And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go.

Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,

He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the Lord for ever:

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.

Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

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.

Honour widows that are widows indeed.

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

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, — read the full passage →

Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. — read the full passage →

(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)

For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?

And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: — read the full passage →

It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles.

Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, — read the full passage →

And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.

But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? — read the full passage →

Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.

And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the Lord.

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor.

Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. — read the full passage →

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding;

And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the Lord my God,

And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the Lord stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.

Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the Lord is gone out against me.

The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the Lord thy God.

Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:

He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord.

The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.

If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.

And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

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

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.

And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.

It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,

Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;

And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?

Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;

To whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.