Marrying Your Cousin

Yahweh said to Moses, — read the full passage →

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

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;

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.

Abstain from every form of evil.

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

one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

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;

But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

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.

holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;

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.

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.

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

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.

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, 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.

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 →

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.

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 →

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 →

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

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;

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.

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 →

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.

And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy; so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”; — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead),

I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don’t know, or whether out of the body, I don’t know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you. — read the full passage →

We have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.

Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia;

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.

Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.

All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.

But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own. — read the full passage →

That which you sow, you don’t sow the body that will be, but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some other kind.

But someone will say, “How are the dead raised?” and, “With what kind of body do they come?” — read the full passage →

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

Or else what will they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead aren’t raised at all, why then are they baptized for the dead? — read the full passage →

Or else what will they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead aren’t raised at all, why then are they baptized for the dead?

For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. — read the full passage →

Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to God, even the Father; when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power.

But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s, at his coming.

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. — read the full passage →

Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? — read the full passage →

Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep.

and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. — read the full passage →

and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

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 →

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 →

Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and don’t forbid speaking with other languages.

But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant.

If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.

let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says. — read the full passage →

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the assemblies of the saints,

The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets,

But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself, and to God.

What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.

And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.

If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won’t they say that you are crazy?

Therefore other languages are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving; but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe. — read the full passage →

In the law it is written, “By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. Not even thus will they hear me, says the Lord.”

Otherwise if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the “Amen” at your giving of thanks, seeing he doesn’t know what you say? — read the full passage →

So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.

Now I desire to have you all speak with other languages, but rather that you would prophesy. For he is greater who prophesies than he who speaks with other languages, unless he interprets, that the assembly may be built up.

Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. — read the full passage →

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

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; — read the full passage →

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. — read the full passage →

But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you.

Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with various languages? Do all interpret?

God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.

For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit; — read the full passage →

For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit; — read the full passage →

But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the profit of all.