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Separation In Marriage

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1 Corinthians 7:10–11

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 7:15

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.

1 Corinthians 7:1–40

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 →

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Matthew 5:32

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.

Malachi 2:16

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.

Romans 12:12

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

1 Peter 3:7

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.

Matthew 19:8

He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

Ephesians 5:22–33

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

Psalms 91:1–16

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →

Matthew 19:9

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.”

Matthew 19:3–9

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 →

1 Corinthians 7:12–16

But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her. — read the full passage →

2 Corinthians 6:14

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

1 Corinthians 7:10

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband

Luke 16:18

Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

1 Corinthians 7:12–15

But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her. — read the full passage →

Genesis 2:24

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

1 Timothy 5:8

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Matthew 19:6

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

Ephesians 5:33

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

1 Corinthians 6:15–20

Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! — read the full passage →

Proverbs 18:22

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

1 Peter 4:8

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Ephesians 5:22

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Romans 7:2

For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

Deuteronomy 24:1–4

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 →

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Matthew 5:31–32

“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’ — read the full passage →

Exodus 21:10

If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.

1 Corinthians 7:39

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.

Genesis 2:18

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Romans 7:2–3

For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband. — read the full passage →

Matthew 19:4–6

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

Proverbs 16:32

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

1 Corinthians 7:11

(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

Proverbs 31:10

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

Ephesians 5:25–33

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 7:15–16

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 →

Mark 10:9

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

1 Peter 3:1

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;

1 Corinthians 7:2–5

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. — read the full passage →

Mark 10:2–12

Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” — read the full passage →

Matthew 19:5

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?’

Ephesians 4:2–3

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →

Mark 10:11–12

He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her. — read the full passage →

Matthew 19:3

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

Philippians 4:19

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:13

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Romans 7:3

So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

Jeremiah 3:1

“They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man’s, will he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me,” says Yahweh.

Proverbs 10:12

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

Colossians 3:18–19

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:1–33

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

Matthew 19:3–12

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 →

Matthew 19:1–30

When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. — read the full passage →

Matthew 5:31

“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’

1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Ephesians 5:31

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

Romans 8:28

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Mark 10:11

He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.

Proverbs 12:4

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

Deuteronomy 24:1

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.

Matthew 19:8–9

He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so. — read the full passage →

Matthew 19:29

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

Jeremiah 3:8

I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, didn’t fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.

Isaiah 50:1

Thus says Yahweh, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were you sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.

1 Corinthians 7:13

The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.

Ephesians 5:28

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

Ephesians 5:21

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

1 Corinthians 6:16

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.”

John 3:16

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.

Mark 10:2

Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

Matthew 19:7

They asked him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?”

Song of Solomon 4:9

You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.

1 Timothy 3:2

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

Ephesians 4:32

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

1 Corinthians 7:3

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

Matthew 19:4

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

Matthew 1:19

Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.

Amos 3:3

Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?

Exodus 20:14

“You shall not commit adultery.

Genesis 2:22

Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.

Genesis 1:27

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

Ephesians 4:2

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

1 Corinthians 13:13

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

1 Corinthians 7:14

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

1 Corinthians 7:8–9

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 →

1 Corinthians 7:2

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

John 15:12

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

Ecclesiastes 4:12

If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Proverbs 27:15

A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:

Colossians 3:23

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

Ephesians 5:21–33

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. — read the full passage →

Acts 5:29

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Mark 10:12

If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery.”

Mark 10:4

They said, “Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her.”

Matthew 1:1–20

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. — read the full passage →

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