Marrying Cousins

`None of you unto any relation of his flesh doth draw near to uncover nakedness; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah. — read the full passage →

`None of you unto any relation of his flesh doth draw near to uncover nakedness; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

`The nakedness of thy father's brother thou dost not uncover; unto his wife thou dost not draw near; she <FI>is<Fi> thine aunt.

`And with a male thou dost not lie as one lieth with a woman; abomination it <FI>is<Fi> .

`The nakedness of the wife of thy father thou dost not uncover; it <FI>is<Fi> the nakedness of thy father.

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

`The nakedness of a woman and her daughter thou dost not uncover; her son's daughter, and her daughter's daughter thou dost not take to uncover her nakedness; they <FI>are<Fi> her relations; it <FI>is<Fi> wickedness.

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings; — read the full passage →

and also, truly she is my sister, daughter of my father, only not daughter of my mother, and she becometh my wife;

`The nakedness of thy daughter-in-law thou dost not uncover; she <FI>is<Fi> thy son's wife; thou dost not uncover her nakedness.

to abstain from things offered to idols, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom; from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well; be strong!'

`None of you unto any relation of his flesh doth draw near to uncover nakedness; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah. — read the full passage →

`The nakedness of a daughter of thy father's wife, begotten of thy father, she <FI>is<Fi> thy sister; thou dost not uncover her nakedness.

`Cursed <FI>is<Fi> he who is lying with his father's wife, for he hath uncovered his father's skirt, --and all the people have said, Amen. — read the full passage →

`The nakedness of thy brother's wife thou dost not uncover; it <FI>is<Fi> thy brother's nakedness.

`The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter: thou dost not uncover their nakedness; for theirs <FI>is<Fi> thy nakedness.

`The nakedness of thy sister, daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, born at home or born without; thou dost not uncover their nakedness.

Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations--as that one hath the wife of the father! --

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

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

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light--we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

For we--wilfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth--no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice,

ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,

Praise ye Jah! Praise ye God in His holy place, Praise Him in the expanse of His strength. — read the full passage →

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

`None of you unto any relation of his flesh doth draw near to uncover nakedness; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah. — read the full passage →

Here is endurance of the saints: here <FI>are<Fi> those keeping the commands of God, and the faith of Jesus.'

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

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please--Christ's servant I should not be.

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love--these three; and the greatest of these <FI>is<Fi> love.

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies <FI>is<Fi> her price.

Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not.

`And a man who lieth with his father's wife--the nakedness of his father he hath uncovered--both of them are certainly put to death; their blood <FI>is<Fi> on them. — read the full passage →

`None of you unto any relation of his flesh doth draw near to uncover nakedness; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah. — read the full passage →

we have known that of God we are, and the whole world in the evil doth lie;

and the God of the peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved unblameably in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ;

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

Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature; — read the full passage →

And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made <FI>them<Fi> , from the beginning a male and a female made them, — read the full passage →

according to the work of the land of Egypt in which ye have dwelt ye do not, and according to the work of the land of Canaan whither I am bringing you in, ye do not, and in their statutes ye walk not.

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

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

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

Be not afraid, for with thee I <FI>am<Fi> , Look not around, for I <FI>am<Fi> thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

And Eleazar dieth, and he had no sons, but daughters, and sons of Kish their brethren take them.

And the heads of the fathers of the families of the sons of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, come near, and speak before Moses, and before the princes, heads of the fathers of the sons of Israel, — read the full passage →

`And a man who lieth with a male as one lieth with a woman; abomination both of them have done; they are certainly put to death; their blood <FI>is<Fi> on them.

`The nakedness of a sister of thy father thou dost not uncover; she <FI>is<Fi> a relation of thy father. — read the full passage →

And Abraham <FI>is<Fi> old, he hath entered into days, and Jehovah hath blessed Abraham in all <FI>things<Fi> ; — read the full passage →

And Abram and Nahor take to themselves wives; the name of Abram's wife <FI>is<Fi> Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife <FI>is<Fi> Milcah, daughter of Haran, father of Milcah, and father of Iscah.

And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and I saw out of the sea a beast coming up, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon its horns ten diadems, and upon its heads a name of evil speaking, — read the full passage →

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

for <FI>it is<Fi> impossible for those once enlightened, having tasted also of the heavenly gift, and partakers having became of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

for for this we both labour and are reproached, because we hope on the living God, who is Saviour of all men--especially of those believing.

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

<FI> Whoso<Fi> hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

`Cursed <FI>is<Fi> he who is lying with his sister, daughter of his father, or daughter of his mother, --and all the people have said, Amen.

`A man doth not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's skirt.

`And with any beast thou dost not give thy copulation, for uncleanness with it; and a woman doth not stand before a beast to lie down with it; confusion it <FI>is<Fi> .

`The nakedness of thy father and the nakedness of thy mother thou dost not uncover, she <FI>is<Fi> thy mother; thou dost not uncover her nakedness.

And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them. — read the full passage →

By faith Enoch was translated--not to see death, and was not found, because God did translate him; for before his translation he had been testified to--that he had pleased God well,

And Christ being come, chief priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands--that is, not of this creation-- — read the full passage →

and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from--for they are unprofitable and vain.

O Timotheus, the thing entrusted guard thou, avoiding the profane vain-words and opposition of the falsely-named knowledge,

I testify fully, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the choice messengers, that these things thou mayest keep, without forejudging, doing nothing by partiality.

and a woman I do not suffer to teach, nor to rule a husband, but to be in quietness,

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to a command of God our Saviour, and of the Lord Jesus Christ our hope,

the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;

The servants! obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ; — read the full passage →

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

Lo, a day hath come to Jehovah, And divided hath been thy spoil in thy midst. — read the full passage →

O the happiness of the man Whom Thou instructest, O Jah, And out of Thy law teachest him,

And Ruth saith, `Urge me not to leave thee--to turn back from after thee; for whither thou goest I go, and where thou lodgest I lodge; thy people <FI>is<Fi> my people, and thy God my God. — read the full passage →

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth--

And a great sign was seen in the heaven, a woman arrayed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars, — read the full passage →

lo, I have stood at the door, and I knock; if any one may hear my voice, and may open the door, I will come in unto him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

also to which an antitype doth now save us--baptism, (not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the question of a good conscience in regard to God,) through the rising again of Jesus Christ,

for as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also the faith apart from the works is dead.

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,

since, would they not have ceased to be offered, because of those serving having no more conscience of sins, having once been purified?

and with blood almost all things are purified according to the law, and apart from blood-shedding forgiveness doth not come.

how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

I entreat thee concerning my child--whom I did beget in my bonds--Onesimus, — read the full passage →

A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said--`Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!' — read the full passage →