Living Together Unmarried

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 →

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

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

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

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

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

Abstain from every form of evil.

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 →

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.

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

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

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.

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.”

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 →

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.

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,

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 →

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 →

“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn’t give her in marriage does better.

You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men.

For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

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 →

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

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.

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

The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

and those who weep, as though they didn’t weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn’t rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn’t possess;

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.

Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

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 →

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

Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God’s Spirit.

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

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

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.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

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

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

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.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

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.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.