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Loving A Married Man
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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.
He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
“You shall not commit adultery.
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
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.
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.
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.
Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.
He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — 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.
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →
Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. — read the full passage →
Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.
but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →
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.
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.
God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
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 →
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 →
Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.
Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh. — read the full passage →
“There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don’t understand: — read the full passage →
My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
Let all that you do be done in love.
and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’
Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man? — read the full passage →
For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. — read the full passage →
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →
What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.
Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant. — read the full passage →
For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.
If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.
Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. — read the full passage →
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
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 don’t have love, I am nothing.
Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
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 →
But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.
“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
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.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.
This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;
Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.
Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
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.
“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? — read the full passage →
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 →
Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
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.
Many waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned. Friends
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. — read the full passage →
“If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.
Let us rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let us give the glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.” — read the full passage →
This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly. — read the full passage →
Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
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.
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her. — read the full passage →
How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine! The fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices!
Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. — read the full passage →
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting;
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →
Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings, — read the full passage →
But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — 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 →
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