Interracial Marriage

And he came to Derbe and Lystra, and lo, a certain disciple was there, by name Timotheus son of a certain woman, a believing Jewess, but of a father, a Greek,

Because thou hast seen iron mixed with miry clay, they are mixing themselves with the seed of men: and they are not adhering one with another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

And Miriam speaketh--Aaron also--against Moses concerning the circumstance of the Cushite woman whom he had taken: for a Cushite woman he had taken; — read the full passage →

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

for there is no difference between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord of all <FI>is<Fi> rich to all those calling upon Him, — read the full passage →

`My statutes ye do keep: thy cattle thou dost not cause to gender <FI>with<Fi> diverse kinds; thy field thou dost not sow with diverse kinds, and a garment of diverse kinds, shaatnez, doth not go up upon thee.

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

`Thou dost not sow thy vineyard <FI>with<Fi> divers things, lest the fulness of the seed which thou dost sow, and the increase of the vineyard, be separated. — read the full passage →

and now, your daughters ye do not give to their sons, and their daughters ye do not take to your sons, and ye do not seek their peace, and their good--unto the age, so that ye are strong, and have eaten the good of the land, and given possession to your sons unto the age.

and other sheep I have that are not of this fold, these also it behoveth me to bring, and my voice they will hear, and there shall become one flock--one shepherd.

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness? — read the full passage →

`When Jehovah thy God doth bring thee in unto the land whither thou art going in to possess it, and He hath cast out many nations from thy presence, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations more numerous and mighty than thou, — read the full passage →

For there is no acceptance of faces with God,

for he is our peace, who did make both one, and the middle wall of the enclosure did break down, — read the full passage →

`God, who did make the world, and all things in it, this One, of heaven and of earth being Lord, in temples made with hands doth not dwell, — read the full passage →

`One wounded, bruised, or cut in the member doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah; — read the full passage →

and Pharaoh calleth Joseph's name Zaphnath-Paaneah, and he giveth to him Asenath daughter of Poti-Pherah, priest of On, for a wife, and Joseph goeth out over the land of Egypt.

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, — read the full passage →

Thus said Jehovah: `Keep ye judgment, and do righteousness, For near <FI>is<Fi> My salvation to come, And My righteousness to be revealed.' — read the full passage →

In the Most High causing nations to inherit, In His separating sons of Adam--He setteth up the borders of the peoples By the number of the sons of Israel.

And at the completion of these things, drawn nigh unto me have the heads, saying, `The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not been separated from the peoples of the lands, as to their abominations, even the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, the Ammonite, the Moabite, the Egyptian, and the Amorite, — read the full passage →

`And when a sojourner sojourneth with thee, and hath made a passover to Jehovah, every male of his <FI>is<Fi> to be circumcised, and then he doth come near to keep it, and he hath been as a native of the land, but any uncircumcised one doth not eat of it; — read the full passage →

Ephraim! among peoples he mixeth himself, Ephraim hath been a cake unturned.

And the sons of Israel have dwelt in the midst of the Canaanite, the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, — read the full passage →

And lo, a man of the sons of Israel hath come, and bringeth in unto his brethren the Midianitess, before the eyes of Moses, and before the eyes of all the company of the sons of Israel, who are weeping at the opening of the tent of meeting; — read the full passage →

And Rebekah saith unto Isaac, `I have been disgusted with my life because of the presence of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, like these--from the daughters of the land--why do I live?'

and I cause thee to swear by Jehovah, God of the heavens, and God of the earth, that thou dost not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanite, in the midst of whom I am dwelling; — read the full passage →

`But--if ye at all turn back and have cleaved to the remnant of these nations, these who are left with you, and intermarried with them, and gone in to them, and they to you, — read the full passage →

And Isaac calleth unto Jacob, and blesseth him, and commandeth him, and saith to him, `Thou dost not take a wife of the daughters of Caanan; — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

Thus said the Lord Jehovah to Jerusalem: Thy birth and thy nativity <FI>Are<Fi> of the land of the Canaanite, Thy father the Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite.

On that day there was read in the book of Moses, in the ears of the people, and it hath been found written in it that an Ammonite and Moabite doth not come into the assembly of God--unto the age, — read the full passage →

And Rehoboam son of Solomon hath reigned in Judah; a son of forty and one years <FI>is<Fi> Rehoboam in his reigning, and seventeen years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, the city that Jehovah chose to set His name there, out of all the tribes of Israel, and the name of his mother <FI>is<Fi> Naamah the Ammonitess.

`When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and Jehovah thy God hath given them into thy hand, and thou hast taken captive its captivity, — read the full passage →

And born to Joseph in the land of Egypt (whom Asenath daughter of Poti-Pherah, priest of On, hath borne to him) <FI>are<Fi> Manasseh and Ephraim.

and having put on the new, which is renewed in regard to knowledge, after the image of Him who did create him; — read the full passage →

And there hath been, in that day, A root of Jesse that is standing for an ensign of peoples, Unto him do nations seek, And his rest hath been--honour! — read the full passage →

And Solomon joineth in marriage with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and taketh the daughter of Pharaoh, and bringeth her in unto the city of David, till he completeth to build his own house, and the house of Jehovah, and the wall of Jerusalem round about. — read the full passage →

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

These twelve did Jesus send forth, having given command to them, saying, `To the way of the nations go not away, and into a city of the Samaritans go not in,

And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying: — read the full passage →

And over those sealed <FI>are<Fi> Nehemiah the Tirshatha, son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah, — read the full passage →

And it cometh to pass, in the month of Nisan, the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, wine <FI>is<Fi> before him, and I lift up the wine, and give to the king, and I had not been sad before him; — read the full passage →

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

And Jacob hath gone on his way, and messengers of God come upon him; — read the full passage →

And Jehovah hath looked after Sarah as He hath said, and Jehovah doth to Sarah as He hath spoken; — read the full passage →

and they sing a new song, saying, `Worthy art thou to take the scroll, and to open the seals of it, because thou wast slain, and didst redeem us to God in thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation, — read the full passage →

and ye <FI>are<Fi> a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light; — read the full passage →

My brethren, hold not, in respect of persons, the faith of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith, — read the full passage →

and they were all amazed, and did wonder, saying one unto another, `Lo, are not all these who are speaking Galileans? — read the full passage →

Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timotheus the brother, to Philemon our beloved and fellow-worker, — read the full passage →

he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings, — read the full passage →

Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth; — read the full passage →

Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother, — read the full passage →

and having been made perfect, he did become to all those obeying him a cause of salvation age-during,

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the choice ones of God, and an acknowledging of truth that <FI>is<Fi> according to piety, — read the full passage →

and the greater part of the brethren in the Lord, having confidence by my bonds, are more abundantly bold--fearlessly to speak the word. — read the full passage →

judge not according to appearance, but the righteous judgment judge.' — read the full passage →

and gathered together before him shall be all the nations, and he shall separate them from one another, as the shepherd doth separate the sheep from the goats,

Thus said Jehovah concerning the prophets Who are causing My people to err, Who are biting with their teeth, And have cried `Peace,' And he who doth not give unto their mouth, They have sanctified against him war. — read the full passage →

They have not destroyed the peoples, As Jehovah had said to them, — read the full passage →

They looked expectingly unto Him, And they became bright, And their faces are not ashamed. — read the full passage →

Not equal it doth the topaz of Cush, With pure gold it is not valued.

The whole of the people that is left of the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, who <FI>are<Fi> not of the sons of Israel-- — read the full passage →

And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, `Look not unto his appearance, and unto the height of his stature, for I have rejected him; for <FI>it is<Fi> not as man seeth--for man looketh at the eyes, and Jehovah looketh at the heart.' — read the full passage →

for we have not here an abiding city, but the coming one we seek;

for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God <FI>is<Fi> witness!)

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

and <FI>it is<Fi> good to be zealously regarded, in what is good, at all times, and not only in my being present with you; — read the full passage →

and a woman who hath a husband unbelieving, and he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not send him away; — read the full passage →

for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live; — read the full passage →

And having risen thence, he doth come to the coasts of Judea, through the other side of the Jordan, and again do multitudes come together unto him, and, as he had been accustomed, again he was teaching them. — read the full passage →

Have we not all one father? Hath not our God prepared us? Wherefore do we deal treacherously, Each against his brother, To pollute the covenant of our fathers? — read the full passage →

Thus said Jehovah: Do ye judgment and righteousness, And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, And sojourner, orphan, and widow, ye do not oppress nor wrong, And innocent blood ye do not shed in this place. — read the full passage →

Doth a Cushite change his skin? and a leopard his spots? Ye also are able to do good, who are accustomed to do evil. — read the full passage →

Therefore, I give their wives to others, Their fields to dispossessors, For from the least even unto the greatest, Every one is gaining dishonest gain, From prophet even unto priest, every one is dealing falsely. — read the full passage →

A wild ass accustomed to a wilderness, In the desire of her soul she hath swallowed up wind, Her meeting--who doth turn her back? None seeking her do weary themselves, In her month they find her. — read the full passage →

For three things hath earth been troubled, And for four--it is not able to bear: — read the full passage →

Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out. — read the full passage →

The righteous is walking habitually in his integrity, O the happiness of his sons after him! — read the full passage →

An evil man seeketh only rebellion, And a fierce messenger is sent against him. — read the full passage →

A wise servant ruleth over a son causing shame, And in the midst of brethren He apportioneth an inheritance.

Fools mock at a guilt-offering, And among the upright--a pleasing thing. — read the full passage →

The blessing of Jehovah--it maketh rich, And He addeth no grief with it. — read the full passage →

The instructor of a scorner Is receiving for it--shame, And a reprover of the wicked--his blemish. — read the full passage →

Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.

And it cometh to pass, in the days of the judging of the judges, that there is a famine in the land, and there goeth a man from Beth-Lehem-Judah to sojourn in the fields of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

And Samson goeth down to Timnath, and seeth a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines, — read the full passage →

and the Amorite is desirous to dwell in mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim, and the hand of the house of Joseph is heavy, and they become tributary;

and thou hast been mad, because of the sight of thine eyes which thou dost see. — read the full passage →

And a son of an Israelitish woman goeth out (and he <FI>is<Fi> son of an Egyptian man), in the midst of the sons of Israel, and strive in the camp do the son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel, — read the full passage →

keeping kindness for thousands, taking away iniquity, and transgression, and sin, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on children, and on children's children, on a third <FI>generation<Fi> , and on a fourth.' — read the full passage →

And the scribes of Egypt do so with their flashings, and the heart of Pharaoh is strong, and he hath not hearkened unto them, as Jehovah hath spoken, — read the full passage →

And Dinah, daughter of Leah, whom she hath borne to Jacob, goeth out to look on the daughters of the land, — read the full passage →

`And when they may finish their testimony, the beast that is coming up out of the abyss shall make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them, — read the full passage →

and the twelve, having called near the multitude of the disciples, said, `It is not pleasing that we, having left the word of God, do minister at tables; — read the full passage →

The Song of Songs, that <FI>is<Fi> Solomon's. — read the full passage →

And his own house hath Solomon built thirteen years, and he finisheth all his house. — read the full passage →

And it cometh to pass that mankind have begun to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters have been born to them, — read the full passage →