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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.
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. — read the full passage →
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: 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.
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 mankind,
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 mankind, — read the full passage →
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: — read the full passage →
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, — read the full passage →
My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. — read the full passage →
And Rehoboam loved Maachah 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.)
But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, 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 the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on 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 answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:
And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judea beyond Jordan; — read the full passage →
At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, 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 people 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 wealth 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 firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; — read the full passage →
If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry 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 an husband’s brother unto her. — read the full passage →
And they shall amerce him in an 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 commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. — read the full passage →
And he shall take a wife in her virginity. — read the full passage →
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an 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 neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →
And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar. — read the full passage →
But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and 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: KJV.