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Married The Wrong Person

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1 Corinthians 7:15

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.

Matthew 19:9

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.”

Malachi 2:16

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.

Psalms 37:4

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Matthew 19:6

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

1 Peter 3:1

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;

Ephesians 4:32

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

Ephesians 5:33

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

Genesis 2:24

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

Genesis 2:18

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

1 Corinthians 13:1–13

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 →

1 Corinthians 7:32–35

But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; — read the full passage →

Matthew 6:33

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

1 Peter 5:7

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

1 Corinthians 7:1–40

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 →

Matthew 5:32

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.

Ephesians 5:25

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

2 Corinthians 6:14

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

John 3:16

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.

1 Corinthians 7:10–11

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

1 Peter 3:7

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.

Matthew 19:12

For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.”

James 1:13–17

Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. — read the full passage →

Philippians 4:8

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Romans 8:1–39

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

Mark 10:9

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

Ephesians 5:31

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

Malachi 2:13–16

This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand. — read the full passage →

Amos 3:3

Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?

Psalms 84:11

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

Revelation 1:1

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,

1 Peter 3:1–2

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 →

1 Corinthians 7:16

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

Deuteronomy 24:1–22

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 →

Genesis 2:25

The man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.

1 Corinthians 7:3–5

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

Matthew 19:5

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?’

Exodus 20:14

“You shall not commit adultery.

2 Peter 1:10

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

Colossians 1:1–29

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 7:10

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

Matthew 19:1–30

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

1 Peter 4:8

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

Hebrews 13:4

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

John 15:13

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Mark 10:12

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

Titus 2:4

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

1 Corinthians 7:33

but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

Romans 7:15

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

Romans 7:3

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.

John 3:19

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

Mark 10:6–9

But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. — read the full passage →

Isaiah 62:5

For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons shall marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

Proverbs 18:22

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

Genesis 24:67

Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Hebrews 12:16

lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.

Ephesians 5:22

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

Galatians 6:7

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

1 Corinthians 13:13

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

Matthew 19:3–9

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 →

Matthew 7:21

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 5:31–32

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

Proverbs 31:10

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

Genesis 1:28

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.”

Colossians 3:25

But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.

Philippians 4:6

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Ephesians 5:25–27

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:22–33

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

Ephesians 5:5

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

Ephesians 4:15

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;

Galatians 5:22–23

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

2 Corinthians 12:13

For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.

2 Corinthians 7:12

So although I wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be revealed in you in the sight of God.

1 Corinthians 13:5

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

1 Corinthians 7:39

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.

1 Corinthians 7:34

There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband.

1 Corinthians 7:17

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

Acts 14:16

who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.

John 14:27

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

Matthew 19:26

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

Matthew 19:7

They asked him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?”

Matthew 10:29–31

“Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father’s will, — read the full passage →

Isaiah 5:13

Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

Genesis 24:1–67

Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things. — read the full passage →

1 Peter 3:4

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.

Titus 1:3

but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;

Ephesians 5:23

For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

Romans 1:26–32

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. — read the full passage →

Hebrews 11:1–40

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

Titus 1:6

if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

1 Timothy 3:4

one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

1 Timothy 3:2

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

Philippians 3:10

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death;

Ephesians 5:11

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

Ephesians 5:10

proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.

Ephesians 5:1–33

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

Ephesians 4:31

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

Ephesians 4:29

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

1 Corinthians 13:2

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 7:19

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

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