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Marrying A Non Believer
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But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her. — read the full passage →
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?
Be not deceived: Evil companionships corrupt good morals.
In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness? — read the full passage →
Yet if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us in peace.
And the woman that hath an unbelieving husband, and he is content to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband. — read the full passage →
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →
A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
When Jehovah thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before thee, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; — read the full passage →
holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof: from these also turn away.
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. — read the full passage →
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness? — read the full passage →
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
Shall two walk together, except they have agreed?
Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;
Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.
neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness? — read the full passage →
Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged.
Now therefore make confession unto Jehovah, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.
And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and one said, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. — read the full passage →
For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as was the heart of David his father.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
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.
There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.
For no word from God shall be void of power.
To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes; But he that is wise hearkeneth unto counsel.
Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.
Wherefore Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, And touch no unclean thing; And I will receive you,
But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her. — read the full passage →
Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.
And what agreement hath a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Have we no right to lead about a wife that is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.
And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
I marvel that ye are so quickly removing from him that called you in the grace of Christ unto a different gospel; — read the full passage →
but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.
There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.
but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. — read the full passage →
And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote unto you; — read the full passage →
As I exhorted thee to tarry at Ephesus, when I was going into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge certain men not to teach a different doctrine,
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness? — read the full passage →
For as touching those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →
who would have all men to be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth. — read the full passage →
one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
I charge thee in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.
In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives; — read the full passage →
abstain from every form of evil.
Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no God but one.
and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand.
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 →
and the two shall become one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh.
according as each hath received a gift, ministering it among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God; — read the full passage →
neither to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questionings, rather than a dispensation of God which is in faith; so do I now.
And according to the law, I may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints that are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:
Only, as the Lord hath distributed to each man, as God hath called each, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all the churches.
but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.
I know thy works, and thy toil and patience, and that thou canst not bear evil men, and didst try them that call themselves apostles, and they are not, and didst find them false;
knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience.
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →
And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what portion hath a believer with an unbeliever?
it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to the unbelieving: but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to them that believe. — read the full passage →
Ye know that when ye were Gentiles ye were led away unto those dumb idols, howsoever ye might be led.
God, having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets by divers portions and in divers manners,
Wherefore be ye not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner stone;
For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.
Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh. — read the full passage →
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →
how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Do all things without murmurings and questionings:
always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body.
And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →
to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have communion with demons. — read the full passage →
Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.
Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
in pureness, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,
But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none;
The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife.
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made void.
A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.
The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →
which also after a true likeness doth now save you, even baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;
But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
and that he appeared to Cephas; then to the twelve;
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