Shacking Up

But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

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

And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

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

But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

abstain from every form of evil.

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

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 take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak.

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, — read the full passage →

The woman answered and said unto him, I have no husband. Jesus saith unto her, Thou saidst well, I have no husband: — read the full passage →

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband — read the full passage →

I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators;

If any one cometh unto you, and bringeth not this teaching, receive him not into your house, and give him no greeting:

for thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: this hast thou said truly.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.

But that ye may know that the Son of man hath authority on earth to forgive sins (then saith he to the sick of the palsy), Arise, and take up thy bed, and go unto thy house. — read the full passage →

then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, that is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; But the end thereof are the ways of death.

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, Until he please.

And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which they received of us.

But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

lest again when I come my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of them that have sinned heretofore, and repented not of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they committed.

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings:

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.

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.

The woman answered and said unto him, I have no husband. Jesus saith unto her, Thou saidst well, I have no husband:

When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John — read the full passage →

The voice of Jehovah shaketh the wilderness; Jehovah shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.

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, — read the full passage →

but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

And when they had prayed, the place was shaken wherein they were gathered together; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spake the word of God with boldness.

Therefore I will make the heavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out of its place, in the wrath of Jehovah of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;

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.

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.

They that see thee shall gaze at thee, they shall consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;

All they that see me laugh me to scorn: They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

All things are lawful for me; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the power of any.

Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

so that the fishes of the sea, and the birds of the heavens, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it is thy brother’s nakedness.

And if a man entice a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.

They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, will he return unto her again? will not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith Jehovah.

Jehovah, when thou wentest forth out of Seir, When thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, The earth trembled, the heavens also dropped, Yea, the clouds dropped water.

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;

men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.

For I would have you know how greatly I strive for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water; — read the full passage →

and have put on the new man, that is being renewed unto knowledge after the image of him that created him:

and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.

for thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: this hast thou said truly. — read the full passage →

Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind; for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; — read the full passage →

whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more will I make to tremble not the earth only, but also the heaven.

prove all things; hold fast that which is good; — read the full passage →

Behold, I Paul say unto you, that, if ye receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

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,

Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more, things that pertain to this life?

Or know ye not that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

For I verily, being absent in body but present in spirit, have already as though I were present judged him that hath so wrought this thing,

For his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food.

For no word from God shall be void of power.

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

Except Jehovah build the house, They labor in vain that build it: Except Jehovah keep the city, The watchman waketh but in vain.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Now even the firstcovenanthad ordinances of divine service, and its sanctuary, a sanctuary of this world. — read the full passage →

But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →

For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

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 →

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.

And upon this came his disciples; and they marvelled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why speakest thou with her?

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such doth the Father seek to be his worshippers.

And he must needs pass through Samaria.

the same came unto him by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that thou doest, except God be with him.

There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.

and he opened his mouth and taught them, saying,

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.

Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see; where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.