Marrying Cousins

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

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.

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.

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

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

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.

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

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

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

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

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.

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

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. — 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 →

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

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.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names. — read the full passage →

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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 →

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

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.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

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.

By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn’t see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to 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 →

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 →

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

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 →

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

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,

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

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?

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

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