Marriage Arguments

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you--so also ye;

but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.

My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep, — read the full passage →

A man of fury stirreth up contention, And the slow to anger appeaseth strife.

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger.

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

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from--for they are unprofitable and vain.

Better to sit on a corner of a roof, Than <FI>with<Fi> a woman of contentions, and a house of company.

and the foolish and uninstructed questions be avoiding, having known that they beget strife, — read the full passage →

These things remind <FI>them<Fi> of, testifying fully before the Lord--not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

Be not envious of a man of violence, Nor fix thou on any of his ways.

Whence <FI>are<Fi> wars and fightings among you? not thence--out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members? — read the full passage →

The curse of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> in the house of the wicked. And the habitation of the righteous He blesseth. — read the full passage →

so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'

A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies <FI>is<Fi> her price.

Strive not with a man without cause, If he have not done thee evil.

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature; — read the full passage →

A vain man through pride causeth debate, And with the counselled <FI>is<Fi> wisdom.

`And with a male thou dost not lie as one lieth with a woman; abomination it <FI>is<Fi> .

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

All things do without murmurings and reasonings, — read the full passage →

Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who <FI>are<Fi> spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself--lest thou also may be tempted;

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

An angry man stirreth up contention, And a furious man is multiplying transgression.

An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.

And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper--as his counterpart.'

whoremongers, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that to sound doctrine is adverse,

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

The curse of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> in the house of the wicked. And the habitation of the righteous He blesseth.

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings;

what therefore God did join together, let not man put asunder.'

And ye have said, `Wherefore?' Because Jehovah hath testified between thee And the wife of thy youth, That thou hast dealt treacherously against her, And she thy companion, and thy covenant-wife. — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them; — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love, — read the full passage →

And, if the unbelieving doth separate himself--let him separate himself: the brother or the sister is not under servitude in such <FI>cases<Fi> , and in peace hath God called us;

The grace <FI>is<Fi> false, and the beauty <FI>is<Fi> vain, A woman fearing Jehovah, she may boast herself.

`And a man who lieth with a male as one lieth with a woman; abomination both of them have done; they are certainly put to death; their blood <FI>is<Fi> on them.

and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh?

And it cometh to pass, in those days, when there is no king in Israel, that there is a man a Levite, a sojourner in the sides of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he taketh to him a wife, a concubine, out of Beth-Lehem-Judah; — read the full passage →

`My statutes ye do keep: thy cattle thou dost not cause to gender <FI>with<Fi> diverse kinds; thy field thou dost not sow with diverse kinds, and a garment of diverse kinds, shaatnez, doth not go up upon thee.

Dare any one of you, having a matter with the other, go to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

And the messenger said to them, `Fear not, for lo, I bring you good news of great joy, that shall be to all the people--

For thy Maker <FI>is<Fi> thy husband, Jehovah of Hosts <FI>is<Fi> His name, And thy Redeemer <FI>is<Fi> the Holy One of Israel, `God of all the earth,' He is called.

And two of the messengers come towards Sodom at even, and Lot is sitting at the gate of Sodom, and Lot seeth, and riseth to meet them, and boweth himself--face to the earth, — read the full passage →

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them. — read the full passage →

and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And <FI>be<Fi> ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that <FI>is<Fi> in you, with meekness and fear;

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, — read the full passage →

Three things have been too wonderful for me, Yea, four that I have not known: — read the full passage →

`If, therefore, thou mayest bring thy gift to the altar, and there mayest remember that thy brother hath anything against thee, — read the full passage →