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Physical Abuse In Marriage
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Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
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.
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
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 →
For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.
No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
“You shall not commit adultery.
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
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.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
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; — read the full passage →
Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” — read the full passage →
Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”
Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.
He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; — read the full passage →
not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →
If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. — read the full passage →
This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — read the full passage →
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — 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. — read the full passage →
A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, for if you rescue him, you must do it again.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.
Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.
Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.
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.
If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.
But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.
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.”
“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →
Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.
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 →
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.
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.
I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.
You will save the afflicted people, But your eyes are on the haughty, that you may bring them down.
God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” — read the full passage →
You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
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 →
But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?
Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.
What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;
There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.
God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
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.
Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.
Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.
Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.
For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
and the two will become one flesh,so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.
“You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’ and ‘Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.’ — read the full passage →
Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!
By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things; but the unfaithful crave violence.
The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.
“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them. — read the full passage →
The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →
So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”
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