Marrying An Unsaved Person

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: — read the full passage →

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

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

But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? — read the full passage →

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? — read the full passage →

This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. — read the full passage →

And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. — read the full passage →

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. — read the full passage →

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; — read the full passage →

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

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.

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:

It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: — read the full passage →

Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; — read the full passage →

There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: — read the full passage →

And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods. — read the full passage →

At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? — read the full passage →

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. — read the full passage →

Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

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

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

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; — read the full passage →

One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. — read the full passage →

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.

God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil. — read the full passage →

And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.

When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

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

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; — read the full passage →

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? — read the full passage →

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: — read the full passage →

So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.

And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him. — read the full passage →

And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened?

They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?

And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judea beyond Jordan; — read the full passage →

But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: — read the full passage →

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him. — read the full passage →