Monogamy

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

and they shall be--the two--for one flesh; so that they are no more two, but one flesh;

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

what therefore God did join together, let not man put asunder.'

on this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife,

`And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'

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.

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord; — read the full passage →

And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made <FI>them<Fi> , from the beginning a male and a female made them, — read the full passage →

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

Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth; — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love, — read the full passage →

but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them; — read the full passage →

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

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

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.

and above all these things, <FI>have<Fi> love, which is a bond of the perfection,

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

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;

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, — read the full passage →

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

He saith to them--`Moses for your stiffness of heart did suffer you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it hath not been so.

`for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh;'

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love--these three; and the greatest of these <FI>is<Fi> love.

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife--himself he doth love;

let all your things be done in love.

`Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.

if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate--

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

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

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled,

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, — read the full passage →

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

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

but neither <FI>is<Fi> a man apart from a woman, nor a woman apart from a man, in the Lord,

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

and to the married I announce--not I, but the Lord--let not a wife separate from a husband: — read the full passage →

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

for in the rising again they do not marry, nor are they given in marriage, but are as messengers of God in heaven.

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God; — read the full passage →

and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge. — read the full passage →

`for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh;' — read the full passage →

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

and we--we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband; — read the full passage →

have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? `for they shall be--saith He--the two for one flesh.'

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won, — read the full passage →

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

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

because of this become not fools, but--understanding what <FI>is<Fi> the will of the Lord, — read the full passage →

who shall render to each according to his works; — read the full passage →

And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, `Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?'

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,