Mates

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

but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

Followers of me become ye, as I also <FI>am<Fi> of Christ. — read the full passage →

but I--I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

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

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith; — read the full passage →

and if they have not continence--let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

`If ye love me, my commands keep,

They say to him, `Why then did Moses command to give a roll of divorce, and to put her away?' — read the full passage →

For <FI>I<Fi> hate sending away, said Jehovah, God of Israel, And He <FI>who<Fi> hath covered violence with his clothing, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And ye do not deal treacherously.

Forming light, and preparing darkness, Making peace, and preparing evil, I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah, doing all these things.'

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

`When a man doth take a wife, and hath married her, and it hath been, if she doth not find grace in his eyes (for he hath found in her nakedness of anything), and he hath written for her a writing of divorce, and given <FI>it<Fi> into her hand, and sent her out of his house, — read the full passage →

And Judah saith to Onan, `Go in unto the wife of thy brother, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother;' — read the full passage →

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

A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will--only in the Lord;