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Marrige
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Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.
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 →
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
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.
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there. — read the full passage →
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
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.
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →
and the two will become one flesh,so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. — 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 →
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 →
The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper comparable to him. — read the full passage →
When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. — read the full passage →
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. — read the full passage →
What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
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.”
A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.
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.
“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”
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.
Joash did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh all the days of Jehoiada the priest. — read the full passage →
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. — read the full passage →
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.
Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. — read the full passage →
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
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 →
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →
Let brotherly love continue. — read the full passage →
And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.
Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;
Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.
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.” — read the full passage →
“There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don’t understand: — read the full passage →
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 →
But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.
But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.
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.
I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.
It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Ruth said, “Don’t entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God; — 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 →
I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.
“If a man entices a virgin who isn’t pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.
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.
Joash was seven years old when he began to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Zibiah, of Beersheba. — read the full passage →
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →
Let all that you do be done in love.
“‘He shall take a wife in her virginity. — read the full passage →
You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.
Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant. — read the full passage →
For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.
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.
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.
The second took her, and died, leaving no children behind him. The third likewise; — read the full passage →
Take wives, and father sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and don’t be diminished.
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. — read the full passage →
He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →
Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man? — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
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.
Let us rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let us give the glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.” — read the full passage →
A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.
Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord Yahweh, and you became mine.
for neither was man created for the woman, but woman for the man. — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
In the same way, the second also, and the third, to the seventh. — read the full passage →
Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”
You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.
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.
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? — read the full passage →
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