Marrying A Cousin

“‘None of you shall approach anyone who are his close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh.

Yahweh said to Moses, — read the full passage →

We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you; — read the full passage →

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. — read the full passage →

The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

For there are three who testify:

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

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

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

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms. — read the full passage →

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

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;

“This is the covenant that I will make with them: ‘After those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;’” then he says, — read the full passage →

Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?

According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, — read the full passage →

having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;

For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.

You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”

But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,

I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus, — read the full passage →

but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting;

One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.” — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

From now on, there is stored up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

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

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;

I command you in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.

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

to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth. — read the full passage →

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

neither to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith—

As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our Savior, and Christ Jesus our hope;

giving vengeance to those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ:

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Abstain from every form of evil.

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, — read the full passage →

in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ; — read the full passage →

in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ; — read the full passage →

and through him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.

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

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, my beloved.

who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men. — read the full passage →

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

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;

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

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing. — read the full passage →

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy; so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”; — read the full passage →

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

I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don’t know, or whether out of the body, I don’t know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you. — read the full passage →

We have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.

Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia;

always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia: — read the full passage →

If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. Come, Lord!

For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge those who are like that.

Now I beg you, brothers (you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to serve the saints),

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.

Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.