Marrying A Cousin

None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:

But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; — read the full passage →

Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.

Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: — read the full passage →

And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. — read the full passage →

I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:

And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.

For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. — read the full passage →

The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; — read the full passage →

For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; — read the full passage →

Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;

For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, — read the full passage →

Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;

Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds: — read the full passage →

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;

One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;

Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,

O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:

I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.

For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. — read the full passage →

Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.

Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. — read the full passage →

Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.

As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine,

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope;

In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Abstain from all appearance of evil.

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: — read the full passage →

In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: — read the full passage →

In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: — read the full passage →

And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother,

Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: — read the full passage →

Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ; — read the full passage →

That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. — read the full passage →

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.

For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)

I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.

For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you. — read the full passage →

And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you.

Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;

Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia: — read the full passage →

If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maran-atha.

For they have refreshed my spirit and yours: therefore acknowledge ye them that are such.

I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.