Topic
Loving A Married Man
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Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: He doeth it who would destroy his own soul.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.
Neither shalt thou covet thy neighbor’s wife; neither shalt thou desire thy neighbor’s house, his field, or his man-servant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his ass, or anything that is thy neighbor’s.
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:
Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.
For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.
He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: He that speaketh falsehood shall not be established before mine eyes.
And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.
But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.
And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →
But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →
A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →
Be not deceived: Evil companionships corrupt good morals.
But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them. — read the full passage →
Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth one that is put away from a husband committeth adultery.
but I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →
When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath taken.
A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →
Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge. — read the full passage →
and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →
with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; — read the full passage →
with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
Set me as a seal upon thy heart, As a seal upon thine arm: For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as Sheol; The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, A very flame of Jehovah. — read the full passage →
There are three things which are too wonderful for me, Yea, four which I know not: — read the full passage →
My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.
Let all that ye do be done in love.
and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?
Trust in Jehovah with all thy heart, And lean not upon thine own understanding:
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?
Most men will proclaim every one his own kindness; But a faithful man who can find? — read the full passage →
For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: — read the full passage →
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, calledto bean apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, — read the full passage →
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
For I hate putting away, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith Jehovah of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. — read the full passage →
For thy Maker is thy husband; Jehovah of hosts is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is thy Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.
And if a man prevail against him that is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
A friend loveth at all times; And a brother is born for adversity.
Delight thyself also in Jehovah; And he will give thee the desires of thy heart.
and the rib, which Jehovah God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. — read the full passage →
Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; — read the full passage →
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →
And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →
but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.
This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.
Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, mybride; Thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, With one chain of thy neck.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; For thy love is better than wine.
Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; Buta woman that feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised.
This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →
In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;
Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; For in thee do I trust: Cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; For I lift up my soul unto thee.
Seek ye Jehovah and his strength; Seek his face evermore.
And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness? — read the full passage →
But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. — read the full passage →
Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.
Many waters cannot quench love, Neither can floods drown it: If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, He would utterly be contemned.
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. — read the full passage →
And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall surely be punished.
Let us rejoice and be exceeding glad, and let us give the glory unto him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. — read the full passage →
This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church. — read the full passage →
and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.
Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.
Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law.
And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her: — read the full passage →
How fair is thy love, my sister, my bride! How much better is thy love than wine! And the fragrance of thine oils than all manner of spices!
Let not kindness and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart: — read the full passage →
No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us:
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing to them in all things; not gainsaying;
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →
lie not one to another; seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings, — read the full passage →
But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband — read the full passage →
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →
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