Marriage Reconciliation

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

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

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.

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.

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

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

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

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

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

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

(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

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.

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

For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.

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

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.

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.

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 →

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new. — 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 →

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

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

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

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

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.”

namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

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,

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

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

When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;

For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

“You shall not commit adultery.

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

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, — 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.

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?’

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

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven; and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.”

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

Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?” — read the full passage →

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

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

So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn’t give her in marriage does better.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

He killed it; and Moses took the blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it.

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you, — read the full passage →

Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. — read the full passage →

and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby.

For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →

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

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation; — read the full passage →

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →

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

The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.

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 →

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

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

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

and through him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross. — read the full passage →

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

If a man is found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deals with him as a slave, or sells him; then that thief shall die. So you shall remove the evil from your midst.

They said, “Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her.”

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.

being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

and the priests killed them, and they made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel; for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.

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

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them. — read the full passage →

and through him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →

Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.