Marriage Laws

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

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

`Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.

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.

but I--I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

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

`And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife--himself he doth love;

A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will--only in the Lord;

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

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?

so, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man's; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man's.

And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made <FI>them<Fi> , from the beginning a male and a female made them, — read the full passage →

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

for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;

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

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

and to the married I announce--not I, but the Lord--let not a wife separate from a husband:

and above all these things, <FI>have<Fi> love, which is a bond of the perfection,

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love--these three; and the greatest of these <FI>is<Fi> love.

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;

`for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh;'

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

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

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled,

And it came to pass, when Jesus finished these words, he removed from Galilee, and did come to the borders of Judea, beyond the Jordan, — read the full passage →

the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife.

let all your things be done in love.

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord; — read the full passage →

and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, — read the full passage →

for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband; — read the full passage →

and we--we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

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 →

Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

And the Pharisees, having come near, questioned him, if it is lawful for a husband to put away a wife, tempting him, — read the full passage →

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

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

And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made <FI>them<Fi> , from the beginning a male and a female made them,

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 the third day a marriage happened in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there,

and he saith to them, `Whoever may put away his wife, and may marry another, doth commit adultery against her;

He saith to them--`Moses for your stiffness of heart did suffer you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it hath not been so.

may we rejoice and exult, and give the glory to Him, because come did the marriage of the Lamb, and his wife did make herself ready;

I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

and if they have not continence--let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;

for when they may rise out of the dead, they neither marry nor are they given in marriage, but are as messengers who are in the heavens.

His disciples say to him, `If the case of the man with the woman is so, it is not good to marry.'

`And it was said, That whoever may put away his wife, let him give to her a writing of divorce;

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 →

What then? shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? let it not be!

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 →

but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them;

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, — read the full passage →

Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God, — read the full passage →

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

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

Are ye ignorant, brethren--for to those knowing law I speak--that the law hath lordship over the man as long as he liveth? — read the full passage →

and this <FI>is<Fi> the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother.

this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;

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

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