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Sex In Marriage
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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 →
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well. — read the full passage →
Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. — read the full passage →
but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
But, because of sexual immoralities, 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 assembly, and gave himself up for it;
A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.
“You shall not commit adultery.
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 →
To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
“‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
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.
How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine! The fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices!
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.”
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →
Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine. — read the full passage →
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. — 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 →
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.”
Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,
Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.
For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. — 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.”
God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. — read the full passage →
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.”
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →
What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →
Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. — read the full passage →
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
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?’
But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry.
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. — read the full passage →
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”
A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
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 →
For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. — read the full passage →
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.
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
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;
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”
How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights! — read the full passage →
“‘You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.
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; — read the full passage →
He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →
For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
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.
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 →
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;
Awake, north wind; and come, you south! Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and taste his precious fruits.
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 →
having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.
But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.
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.
“There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don’t understand: — read the full passage →
The man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. — read the full passage →
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. — read the full passage →
Let all that you do be done in love.
Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. — read the full passage →
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.
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.
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown 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 obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →
For man is not from woman, but woman from 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.
I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live. — read the full passage →
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love. Friends
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