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Marriage And Virginity

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Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Leviticus 21:13–14

“‘He shall take a wife in her virginity. — read the full passage →

Genesis 2:24

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

1 Corinthians 7:1–40

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 →

1 Corinthians 7:8–9

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 →

1 Corinthians 7:2

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

1 Corinthians 6:18–20

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. — read the full passage →

Exodus 22:16–17

“If a man entices a virgin who isn’t pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife. — read the full passage →

Romans 12:1–2

Therefore I urge you, brothers, 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 →

1 Thessalonians 4:3–8

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:25

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

Ephesians 5:33

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Deuteronomy 22:13–21

If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates her, — read the full passage →

Matthew 19:6

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

Genesis 2:18

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

1 Corinthians 6:12–20

“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 anything. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:3

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

1 Thessalonians 4:3–4

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →

Colossians 3:14

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

Deuteronomy 22:23–24

If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man finds her in the city, and lies with her; — read the full passage →

Deuteronomy 22:28–29

If a man finds a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, grabs her, and lies with her, and they are found; — read the full passage →

Deuteronomy 22:20–21

But if this thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady; — read the full passage →

2 Corinthians 11:2

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

Proverbs 31:10

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

Judges 21:11–12

This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.” — read the full passage →

1 Peter 3:7

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.

1 Peter 3:1–5

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

Romans 12:1–21

Therefore I urge you, brothers, 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 →

1 Peter 4:8

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Proverbs 18:22

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

Proverbs 12:4

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

Genesis 1:28

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Mark 10:6–9

But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 19:14

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

1 Corinthians 13:1–13

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Matthew 19:12

For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.”

Matthew 19:3–12

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” — read the full passage →

Isaiah 62:5

For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons shall marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

Revelation 1:1

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Ephesians 5:31

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

1 Corinthians 7:9

But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

Esther 2:2

Then the king’s servants who served him said, “Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king.

Leviticus 21:14

A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife.

Leviticus 21:13

“‘He shall take a wife in her virginity.

1 Corinthians 7:32–35

But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 6:16

Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”

John 14:14

If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.

Deuteronomy 24:5

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.

Revelation 14:4

These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

1 Timothy 3:2

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

Colossians 3:18–19

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

Matthew 19:9

I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

Isaiah 54:5

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.

Proverbs 5:18–19

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →

Exodus 22:16

“If a man entices a virgin who isn’t pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

Ephesians 5:22–33

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 5:1–13

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife. — read the full passage →

Matthew 19:4–6

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

Malachi 2:14–15

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 →

Ezekiel 44:22

Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

Song of Solomon 4:9

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.

Ecclesiastes 4:9–12

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 30:18–19

“There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don’t understand: — read the full passage →

Proverbs 21:9

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.

Proverbs 20:6–7

Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man? — read the full passage →

Genesis 2:22–24

Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. — read the full passage →

Genesis 1:27–28

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. — read the full passage →

1 Thessalonians 4:3–7

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →

Ephesians 4:2

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

1 Corinthians 12:31

But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you.

1 Corinthians 7:8

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

Romans 7:2

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.

John 3:16–17

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 →

1 Samuel 2:30

“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

Leviticus 21:13–15

“‘He shall take a wife in her virginity. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 13:4–7

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

John 3:1–36

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

John 3:3

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

Matthew 5:28

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Judges 11:37–39

She said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.” — read the full passage →

Deuteronomy 22:20

But if this thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady;

Genesis 6:1

When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

1 Timothy 2:9

In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing;

1 Thessalonians 4:4

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

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

2 Corinthians 6:14

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Matthew 5:32

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.

Ecclesiastes 4:12

If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Leviticus 21:7

“‘They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband; for he is holy to his God.

1 John 4:7

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

1 Peter 1:16

because it is written, “You shall be holy; for I am holy.”

Ephesians 5:1–33

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

Galatians 5:19–21

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 16:14

Let all that you do be done in love.

1 Corinthians 13:13

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

Mark 10:9

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

Deuteronomy 22:15

then the young lady’s father and mother shall take and bring the tokens of the young lady’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.

1 Corinthians 13:4–8

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

Romans 12:1

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

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