Married Women Having Children

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 →

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,

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

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

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

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

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

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 →

But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”

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.

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified. — read the full passage →

and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned; that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

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

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.

But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

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

I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am. — read the full passage →

The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!” — read the full passage →

For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

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

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.

He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,