Topic
Marriage And The Bible
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Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →
Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner with these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,
Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, — 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 →
My son, forget not my law; But let thy heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →
Jehovah is my shepherd; I shall not want. — read the full passage →
And Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines, and begat twenty and eight sons and threescore daughters).
Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;
Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. — read the full passage →
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
and I will make thee swear by Jehovah, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that thou wilt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
Every one that doeth sin doeth also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?
So belief cometh of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.
and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
And Jesus said unto them, The sons of this world marry, and are given in marriage:
And it came to pass when Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judæa beyond the Jordan; — read the full passage →
At that season Jesus went on the sabbath day through the grainfields; and his disciples were hungry and began to pluck ears and to eat. — read the full passage →
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →
and that we would not give our daughters unto the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;
now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity for ever; that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.
And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron; and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.
And unto David were sons born in Hebron: and his first-born was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; — read the full passage →
If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married without unto a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother unto her. — read the full passage →
and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, — read the full passage →
And Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab: — read the full passage →
And he shall take a wife in her virginity. — read the full passage →
And if a man lie with mankind, as with womankind, both of them have committed abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →
And Judah took a wife for Er his first-born, and her name was Tamar. — read the full passage →
But unto the sons of the concubines, that Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts; and he sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: ASV.