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Sex In Marriage
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Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →
Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well. — read the full passage →
Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. — read the full passage →
but I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
Asa loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →
To the pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
And if a man lie with mankind, as with womankind, both of them have committed abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.
How fair is thy love, my sister, my bride! How much better is thy love than wine! And the fragrance of thine oils than all manner of spices!
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.
Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;
And the man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man with the help of Jehovah.
Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →
Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; For thy love is better than wine. — read the full passage →
But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them. — read the full passage →
And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →
And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.
Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, When it is in the power of thy hand to do it.
But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves:
A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.
For thou didst form my inward parts: Thou didst cover me in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →
Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.
And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. — read the full passage →
And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →
Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. — read the full passage →
Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,
and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?
But if any man thinketh that he behaveth himself unseemly toward his virgin daughter, if she be past the flower of her age, and if need so requireth, let him do what he will; he sinneth not; let them marry.
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. — read the full passage →
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?
So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:
But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. — read the full passage →
For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: — read the full passage →
but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.
In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;
Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →
And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.
How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights! — read the full passage →
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →
For thou didst form my inward parts: Thou didst cover me in my mother’s womb.
For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. — read the full passage →
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; For thy love is better than wine.
with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; Blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, And eat his precious fruits.
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John; — read the full passage →
having a good conscience; that, wherein ye are spoken against, they may be put to shame who revile your good manner of life in Christ.
But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
For thy Maker is thy husband; Jehovah of hosts is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is thy Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.
There are three things which are too wonderful for me, Yea, four which I know not: — read the full passage →
And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. — read the full passage →
Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.
And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. — read the full passage →
Let all that ye do be done in love.
Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. — read the full passage →
It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that oneof you hath his father’s wife.
When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath taken.
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner with these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →
For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man: — read the full passage →
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.
and I will make thee swear by Jehovah, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that thou wilt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: — read the full passage →
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →
But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved, That ye tell him, that I am sick from love.
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