Marrying Kin

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

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

He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’but you have made it a den of robbers!”

Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables and the seats of those who sold the doves.

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables and the seats of those who sold the doves. — read the full passage →

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.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

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

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

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; — read the full passage →

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

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

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. — read the full passage →

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; — read the full passage →

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

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

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.

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.

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”

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, — read the full passage →

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.

Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

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.

and the two will become one flesh,so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. — read the full passage →

I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there. — read the full passage →

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.