Marriage Vows

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

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

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

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 →

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

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.

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.

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.

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

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

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.”

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 →

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.

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. — read the full passage →

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — 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.

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

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.

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

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

“Again you have heard that it was said to them of old time, ‘You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,’ — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’

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 →

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 →

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

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? — read the full passage →

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 →

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 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 →

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

They asked him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?” — read the full passage →

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions. — read the full passage →

For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation. — read the full passage →

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work.

His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them.