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.

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

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.

When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.

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

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.

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.

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

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

Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded. — 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 →

I will pay my vows to Yahweh, yes, in the presence of all his people,

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

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. — read the full passage →

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.

Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?

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 →

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

(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 →

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

But if you refrain from making a vow, it shall be no sin in you.

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.

May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high, — read the full passage →

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.

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.

The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s. Beloved — read the full passage →

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.

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

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — 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 →

her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Yahweh. You shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.

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 →

I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion. — 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.

Hear this word that Yahweh has spoken against you, children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying: — read the full passage →

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

In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.