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Sacrament Of Marriage
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Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. — 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.
He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →
Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.
Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant. — 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.”
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 →
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
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 →
“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.” — read the full passage →
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. — 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 →
Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.
Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.
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.
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 →
God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. — read the full passage →
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. — read the full passage →
“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”
God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. — 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.”
Let us rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let us give the glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.” — 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 →
What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
The third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there. — read the full passage →
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →
“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’ — read the full passage →
Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
Let us rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let us give the glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.
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.
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →
Let all that you do be done in love.
Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”
“There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don’t understand: — read the full passage →
I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns! — read the full passage →
But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, — read the full passage →
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
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.
“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.
For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven.
Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” — read the full passage →
Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant. — read the full passage →
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 →
For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am. — read the full passage →
When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.
Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into the Kingdom of God!
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →
He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.
Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven.
Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.
They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
Caleb said, “I will give Achsah my daughter as wife to he who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it.”
This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →
“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.” — read the full passage →
For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread. — read the full passage →
Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them, — read the full passage →
If you forgive anyone’s sins, they have been forgiven them. If you retain anyone’s sins, they have been retained.”
When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit!
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 →
but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. — read the full passage →
and the two will become one flesh,so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.
For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,
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.
Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. — read the full passage →
The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? He has surely come up to defy Israel. It shall be, that the man who kills him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father’s house free in Israel.”
If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”
Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things. — read the full passage →
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, — read the full passage →
I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you;
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →
In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;
and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’ — read the full passage →
and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.
Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.
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