Topic

Marriage Arguments

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Colossians 3:13

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye:

Ephesians 5:33

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

Proverbs 3:1–35

My son, forget not my law; But let thy heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

Proverbs 15:18

A wrathful man stirreth up contention; But he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.

Ephesians 5:22–33

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

Proverbs 15:1

A soft answer turneth away wrath; But a grievous word stirreth up anger.

Matthew 6:15

But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

1 Peter 4:8

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

Titus 3:9

but shun foolish questionings, and genealogies, and strifes, and fightings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Proverbs 25:24

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

2 Timothy 2:23–24

But foolish and ignorant questionings refuse, knowing that they gender strifes. — read the full passage →

2 Timothy 2:14

Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear.

Hebrews 13:4

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

1 Corinthians 13:4–5

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

Proverbs 3:31

Envy thou not the man of violence, And choose none of his ways.

James 4:1–3

Whence comewars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members? — read the full passage →

Proverbs 3:33–35

The curse of Jehovah is in the house of the wicked; But he blesseth the habitation of the righteous. — read the full passage →

Matthew 19:6

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

Proverbs 31:10

A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.

Proverbs 3:30

Strive not with a man without cause, If he have done thee no harm.

Genesis 2:24

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Ephesians 4:32

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

Romans 1:26–27

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 →

Proverbs 13:10

By pride cometh only contention; But with the well-advised is wisdom.

Leviticus 18:22

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

Leviticus 18:1–30

And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

Philippians 2:14–16

Do all things without murmurings and questionings: — read the full passage →

Galatians 6:1

Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

1 Corinthians 6:9

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,

Proverbs 29:22

An angry man stirreth up strife, And a wrathful man aboundeth in transgression.

Proverbs 20:3

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; But every fool will be quarrelling.

Genesis 2:18

And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.

1 Timothy 1:10

for fornicators, for abusers of themselves with men, for menstealers, for liars, for false swearers, and if there be any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

Galatians 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Proverbs 3:33

The curse of Jehovah is in the house of the wicked; But he blesseth the habitation of the righteous.

Romans 14:1

But him that is weak in faith receive ye, yet not for decision of scruples.

Mark 10:9

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

Malachi 2:14–15

Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. — read the full passage →

Revelation 1:1

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;

Mark 10:6–9

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

Ephesians 4:2–3

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 7:15

Yet if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us in peace.

Proverbs 31:30

Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; Buta woman that feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised.

Leviticus 20:13

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.

Matthew 19:5

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

Judges 19:1–30

And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth-lehem-judah. — read the full passage →

Leviticus 19:19

Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with two kinds of seed: neither shall there come upon thee a garment of two kinds of stuff mingled together.

1 Corinthians 6:1–20

Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

Luke 2:10

And the angel said unto them, Be not afraid; for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all the people:

Isaiah 54:5

For thy Maker is thy husband; Jehovah of hosts is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is thy Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.

Genesis 19:1–38

And the two angels came to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face to the earth; — read the full passage →

Genesis 1:27–28

And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. — read the full passage →

1 Peter 3:15

but sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord: being ready always to give answer to every man that asketh you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, yet with meekness and fear:

Ephesians 5:1–33

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

Galatians 2:20

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

1 Corinthians 6:9–10

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 →

Proverbs 30:18–19

There are three things which are too wonderful for me, Yea, four which I know not: — read the full passage →

Matthew 5:23–24

If therefore thou art offering thy gift at the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, — read the full passage →

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