Married The Wrong Person

And, if the unbelieving doth separate himself--let him separate himself: the brother or the sister is not under servitude in such <FI>cases<Fi> , and in peace hath God called us;

`And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'

For <FI>I<Fi> hate sending away, said Jehovah, God of Israel, And He <FI>who<Fi> hath covered violence with his clothing, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And ye do not deal treacherously.

And delight thyself on Jehovah, And He giveth to thee the petitions of thy heart.

so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper--as his counterpart.'

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

And I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord; — read the full passage →

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

but I--I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

and to the married I announce--not I, but the Lord--let not a wife separate from a husband: — read the full passage →

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

for there are eunuchs who from the mother's womb were so born; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who kept themselves eunuchs because of the reign of the heavens: he who is able to receive <FI> it<Fi> --let him receive.'

Let no one say, being tempted--`From God I am tempted,' for God is not tempted of evil, and Himself doth tempt no one, — read the full passage →

As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <FI>are<Fi> grave, as many as <FI>are<Fi> righteous, as many as <FI>are<Fi> pure, as many as <FI>are<Fi> lovely, as many as <FI>are<Fi> of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;

There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit; — read the full passage →

what therefore God did join together, let not man put asunder.'

`for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh;'

And this a second time ye do, Covering with tears the altar of Jehovah, With weeping and groaning, Because there is no more turning unto the present, Or receiving of a pleasing thing from your hand. — read the full passage →

Do two walk together if they have not met?

For a sun and a shield <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah God, Grace and honour doth Jehovah give. He withholdeth not good To those walking in uprightness.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won, — read the full passage →

for what, hast thou known, O wife, whether the husband thou shalt save? or what, hast thou known, O husband, whether the wife thou shalt save?

`When a man doth take a wife, and hath married her, and it hath been, if she doth not find grace in his eyes (for he hath found in her nakedness of anything), and he hath written for her a writing of divorce, and given <FI>it<Fi> into her hand, and sent her out of his house, — read the full passage →

And they are both of them naked, the man and his wife, and they are not ashamed of themselves.

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband; — read the full passage →

and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh?

`Thou dost not commit adultery.

wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble,

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

and to the married I announce--not I, but the Lord--let not a wife separate from a husband:

And it came to pass, when Jesus finished these words, he removed from Galilee, and did come to the borders of Judea, beyond the Jordan, — read the full passage →

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

and if a woman may put away her husband, and is married to another, she committeth adultery.'

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of <FI>their<Fi> husbands, lovers of <FI>their<Fi> children,

and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.

for that which I work, I do not acknowledge; for not what I will, this I practise, but what I hate, this I do.

so, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man's; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man's.

`And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;

but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them; — read the full passage →

For a young man doth marry a virgin, Thy Builders do marry thee, With the joy of a bridegroom over a bride, Rejoice over thee doth thy God.

<FI> Whoso<Fi> hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

and Isaac bringeth her in unto the tent of Sarah his mother, and he taketh Rebekah, and she becometh his wife, and he loveth her, and Isaac is comforted after <FI>the death of<Fi> his mother.

lest any one be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who in exchange for one morsel of food did sell his birthright,

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow--that also he shall reap,

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love--these three; and the greatest of these <FI>is<Fi> love.

And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, `Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?' — read the full passage →

`Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

`And it was said, That whoever may put away his wife, let him give to her a writing of divorce; — read the full passage →

A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies <FI>is<Fi> her price.

And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'

and he who is doing unrighteously shall receive what he did unrighteously, and there is no acceptance of persons.

for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God;

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, — read the full passage →

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God.

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ;

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

for what is there in which ye were inferior to the rest of the assemblies, except that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this injustice!

If, then, I also wrote to you--not for his cause who did wrong, nor for his cause who did suffer wrong, but for our diligence in your behalf being manifested unto you before God--

doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,

A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will--only in the Lord;

The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.

if not, as God did distribute to each, as the Lord hath called each--so let him walk; and thus in all the assemblies do I direct:

who in the past generations did suffer all the nations to go on in their ways,

`Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

And Jesus having earnestly beheld, said to them, `With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.'

They say to him, `Why then did Moses command to give a roll of divorce, and to put her away?'

`Are not two sparrows sold for an assar? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father; — read the full passage →

Therefore my people removed without knowledge, And its honourable ones are famished, And its multitude dried up of thirst.

And Abraham <FI>is<Fi> old, he hath entered into days, and Jehovah hath blessed Abraham in all <FI>things<Fi> ; — read the full passage →

but--the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible thing of the meek and quiet spirit, which is, before God, of great price,

(and He manifested in proper times His word,) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Saviour,

because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ <FI>is<Fi> head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature; — read the full passage →

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction, — read the full passage →

if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate--

his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity,

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

to know him, and the power of his rising again, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord,

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice,

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

the circumcision is nothing, and the uncircumcision is nothing--but a keeping of the commands of God.