Marrying Out Of Convenience

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

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

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

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.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

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

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

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. — 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.

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — 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?

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

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.

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

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

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

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — 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.

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — 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.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury. — read the full passage →

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

Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. — 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 →

Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed? — read the full passage →

If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, — read the full passage →

Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. — read the full passage →

After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag; — read the full passage →

In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. — read the full passage →

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

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

who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

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

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

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

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand, — read the full passage →

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 →

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, — read the full passage →

Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you; — 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.”

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

When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. — read the full passage →

For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons shall marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. — read the full passage →

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.

When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →

When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. — read the full passage →

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

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 →

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them, — 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 →

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

Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. All of the families of the earth will be blessed in you.”

The man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.

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

and every spirit who doesn’t confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

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.

But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias. — read the full passage →

He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand. — read the full passage →

He shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease; and on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, shall wrath be poured out on the desolate.

My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer. — read the full passage →

Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”

On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.

Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.