Living Together Not Married

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 →

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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

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 →

Abstain from every form of evil.

“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.

Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” — read the full passage →

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.”

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,

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

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

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 →

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 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.”

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.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

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 sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

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 →

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 →

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

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.

But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John — 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.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

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.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — 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.

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 he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband

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 →

The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.

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.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

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.

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 →

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — 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 →

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.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.

But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own heart, to keep his own virgin, does well.

But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry.

There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband.

But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.

I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is.

Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.

(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

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 →

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,

Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

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 →

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

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.

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 →

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

The woman answered, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You said well, ‘I have no husband,’

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.

If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery.”

Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.

When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. — 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.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

“You shall not commit adultery.

This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.