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Living Together Before Marriage
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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.
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
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 →
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
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 →
Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh. — 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.
Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →
Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” — read the full passage →
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.
For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, — 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.
Abstain from every form of evil.
Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — 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,
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.”
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am. — 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.
but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.
Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.
Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.
Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,
Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.
Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — 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?
A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.
“You shall not commit adultery.
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 →
Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John — 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 →
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.
Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
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 →
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →
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.
Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. — read the full passage →
Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
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.
that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness and sexual immorality and lustfulness which they committed.
Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
“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 →
“These things have I spoken to you, so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble.
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn’t give her in marriage does better.
But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.
Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →
Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. — read the full passage →
Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. — read the full passage →
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers. — read the full passage →
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — 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 →
Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →
For everything spoken by God is possible.”
My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →
For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things: — read the full passage →
For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven.
Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord Yahweh, and you became mine.
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.
“Therefore my judgment is that we don’t trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God, — read the full passage →
He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.
Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
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 →
You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.
If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.
“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son,
But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!
Blessed are those who do his commandments,that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city. — 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. — read the full passage →
being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:
“There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don’t understand: — read the full passage →
Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. — read the full passage →
Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man? — 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 →
Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” — read the full passage →
For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →
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