Marriage Covenant

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

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

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →

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.

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

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 →

Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

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.”

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.

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

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

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

This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

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.

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

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father; — read the full passage →

So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, — read the full passage →

When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

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

He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

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.

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. — read the full passage →

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

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 →

For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body. — read the full passage →

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

“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’ — read the full passage →

We love him, because he first loved us.

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 →

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. — read the full passage →

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

and the two will become one flesh,so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. — read the full passage →

His disciples said to him, “If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.”

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →

The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

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

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

Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? — read the full passage →

If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery.”

for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.

Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

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,

He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

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.”

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

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her. — read the full passage →