Marriage And Virginity

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — 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 →

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

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. — read the full passage →

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

All things are lawful for me; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the power of any. — read the full passage →

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →

and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

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.

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives; — read the full passage →

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them. — 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 →

For there are eunuchs, that were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are eunuchs, that were made eunuchs by men: and there are eunuchs, that made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.

And there came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? — read the full passage →

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.

But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

But I would have you to be free from cares. He that is unmarried is careful for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord: — read the full passage →

Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.

If ye shall ask anything in my name, that will I do.

These are they that were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they that follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were purchased from among men, to be the firstfruits unto God and unto the Lamb.

The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that oneof you hath his father’s wife. — read the full passage →

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 →

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

But desire earnestly the greater gifts. And moreover a most excellent way show I unto you.

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

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.

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 →

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: — read the full passage →

Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

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.

In like manner, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobriety; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment;

that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?

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.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.

because it is written, Ye shall be holy; for I am holy.

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; — read the full passage →

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

Let all that ye do be done in love.

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.