Marriage Relationships

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.

Yet if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us in peace.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

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

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?

A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

And it shall be in the last days, saith God, I will pour forth of my Spirit upon all flesh: And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, And your young men shall see visions, And your old men shall dream dreams:

but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.

My son, forget not my law; But let thy heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her. — read the full passage →

For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.

And there came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? — read the full passage →

For I hate putting away, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith Jehovah of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;

if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her. — read the full passage →

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

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.

Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, — read the full passage →

So then if, while the husband liveth, she be joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man.

But after certain days, Felix came with Drusilla, his wife, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.

But Peter and the apostles answered and said, We must obey God rather than men.

saying, We strictly charged you not to teach in this name: and behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.

And Peter said unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth one that is put away from a husband committeth adultery.

And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her:

And there came unto him Pharisees, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? trying him. — read the full passage →

And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

And it came to pass when Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judæa beyond the Jordan; — read the full passage →

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.

When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →