Marrying Non Believers

But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her. — 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?

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

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.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

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

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 →

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

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

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;

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

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.”

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

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.

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.

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”

and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to his Kingdom.”

I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works. — read the full passage →

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, — read the full passage →

The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”

and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

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.

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

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.

I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them. — read the full passage →

The rest of the dead didn’t live until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

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 →

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

For there are three who testify:

Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you; — read the full passage →

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;

For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;

For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms. — read the full passage →

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,

to the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

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.

Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, — read the full passage →

“This is the covenant that I will make with them: ‘After those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;’” then he says, — read the full passage →

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.

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 →

having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;

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 →

though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.

You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,

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

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting;

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

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

From now on, there is stored up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,

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.

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.

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

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

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.

to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth. — read the full passage →

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

neither to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith—

As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

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

giving vengeance to those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ:

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.

Abstain from every form of evil.

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, — read the full passage →

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →

in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ; — read the full passage →

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.

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

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, my beloved.

who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

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.

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men. — read the full passage →

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

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 →

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

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

one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing. — read the full passage →