Marriage Between Cousins

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,

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

so that both he who is giving in marriage doth well, and he who is not giving in marriage doth better.

Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations--as that one hath the wife of the father! --

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

`Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

and also Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage;

but those accounted worthy to obtain that age, and the rising again that is out of the dead, neither marry, nor are they given in marriage;

And Jesus answering said to them, `The sons of this age do marry and are given in marriage,

for in the rising again they do not marry, nor are they given in marriage, but are as messengers of God in heaven.

be going, then, on to the cross-ways, and as many as ye may find, call ye to the marriage-feasts.

`The reign of the heavens was likened to a man, a king, who made marriage-feasts for his son,

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God;

and the neighbours and her kindred heard that the Lord was making His kindness great with her, and they were rejoicing with her.

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

for as they were, in the days before the flood, eating, and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, till the day Noah entered into the ark,

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, — read the full passage →

Here is endurance of the saints: here <FI>are<Fi> those keeping the commands of God, and the faith of Jesus.'

For we--wilfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth--no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice,

because the Lord himself, in a shout, in the voice of a chief-messenger, and in the trump of God, shall come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first, — read the full passage →

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light--we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

since, would they not have ceased to be offered, because of those serving having no more conscience of sins, having once been purified?

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please--Christ's servant I should not be.

and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these did desire.

I give thanks to my God upon all the remembrance of you,

And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant--being lord of all, — read the full passage →

and without <FI>are<Fi> the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the whoremongers, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one who is loving and is doing a lie.

this first knowing, that there shall come in the latter end of the days scoffers, according to their own desires going on,

this only do I wish to learn from you--by works of law the Spirit did ye receive, or by the hearing of faith?

and all the brethren with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:

neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand;

and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.

And I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;

And I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord; — read the full passage →

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin. — read the full passage →

and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all. — read the full passage →

`Again he sent forth other servants, saying, Say to those who have been called: Lo, my dinner I prepared, my oxen and the fatlings have been killed, and all things <FI>are<Fi> ready, come ye to the marriage-feasts;

`Do not suppose that I came to throw down the law or the prophets--I did not come to throw down, but to fulfil;

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

And a great sign was seen in the heaven, a woman arrayed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars, — read the full passage →

And there was given to me a reed like to a rod, and the messenger stood, saying, `Rise, and measure the sanctuary of God, and the altar, and those worshipping in it; — read the full passage →

Wherefore, coming into the world, he saith, `Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not will, and a body Thou didst prepare for me,