Shacking Up

and if they have not continence--let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part <FI>is<Fi> in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

from all appearance of evil abstain ye;

but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought--for desires.

and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh?

but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, — read the full passage →

the woman answered and said, `I have not a husband.' Jesus saith to her, `Well didst thou say--A husband I have not; — read the full passage →

and to the married I announce--not I, but the Lord--let not a wife separate from a husband: — read the full passage →

I did write to you in the epistle, not to keep company with whoremongers--

if any one doth come unto you, and this teaching doth not bear, receive him not into the house, and say not to him, `Hail!'

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

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation;

`But, that ye may know that the Son of Man hath power upon the earth to forgive sins--(then saith he to the paralytic) --having risen, take up thy couch, and go to thy house.' — read the full passage →

then hath the man who is lying with her given to the father of the damsel fifty silverlings, and to him she is for a wife; because that he hath humbled her, he is not able to send her away all his days.

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

`When a man findeth a damsel, a virgin who is not betrothed, and hath caught her, and lain with her, and they have been found,

Put to death, then, your members that <FI>are<Fi> upon the earth--whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry--

for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

the meats <FI>are<Fi> for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body <FI>is<Fi> not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

There is a way--right before a man, And its latter end <FI>are<Fi> ways of death.

I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, How ye stir up, And how ye wake the love till she please!

and this--`Yet once' --doth make evident the removal of the things shaken, as of things having been made, that the things not shaken may remain;

And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother disorderly walking, and not after the deliverance that ye received from us,

and now we have ceased from the law, that being dead in which we were held, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.

lest again having come, my God may humble me in regard to you, and I may bewail many of those having sinned before, and not having reformed concerning the uncleanness, and whoredom, and lasciviousness, that they did practise.

neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand;

for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings:

as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other flesh, have been set before--an example, of fire age-during, justice suffering.

Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations--as that one hath the wife of the father! --

the woman answered and said, `I have not a husband.' Jesus saith to her, `Well didst thou say--A husband I have not;

When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus more disciples doth make and baptize than John, — read the full passage →

The voice of Jehovah paineth a wilderness, Jehovah paineth the wilderness of Kadesh.

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, — read the full passage →

but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood;

And they having prayed, the place was shaken in which they were gathered together, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and were speaking the word of God with freedom,

Therefore the heavens I cause to tremble, And the earth doth shake from its place, In the wrath of Jehovah of Hosts, And in a day of the heat of his anger.

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,

but I--I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

but I--I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

Thy beholders look to thee, to thee they attend, Is this the man causing the earth to tremble, Shaking kingdoms?

All beholding me do mock at me, They make free with the lip--shake the head,

`Thou dost not commit adultery.

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I--I will not be under authority by any;

ye do the works of your father.' They said, therefore, to him, `We of whoredom have not been born; one Father we have--God;'

And rushed from My presence have fishes of the sea, And the fowl of the heavens, And the beast of the field, And every creeping thing that is creeping on the ground, And all men who <FI>are<Fi> on the face of the ground, And thrown down have been the mountains, And fallen have the ascents, And every wall to the earth falleth.

`The nakedness of thy brother's wife thou dost not uncover; it <FI>is<Fi> thy brother's nakedness.

`And when a man doth entice a virgin who <FI>is<Fi> not betrothed, and hath lain with her, he doth certainly endow her to himself for a wife;

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please--Christ's servant I should not be.

Saying, `Lo, one sendeth away his wife, And she hath gone from him, And she hath been to another man, Doth he turn back unto her again? Greatly defiled is not that land? And thou hast committed whoredom with many lovers, And turn again to Me, an affirmation of Jehovah.

Jehovah, in Thy going forth out of Seir, In Thy stepping out of the field of Edom, Earth trembled, also the heavens dropped, Also thick clouds dropped water.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

men fainting at heart from fear, and expectation of the things coming on the world, for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

For, lo, the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is turning aside from Jerusalem, And from Judah, stay and staff, Every stay of bread, and every stay of water. — read the full passage →

and having put on the new, which is renewed in regard to knowledge, after the image of Him who did create him;

and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

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

Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, ye also with the same mind arm yourselves, because he who did suffer in the flesh hath done with sin, — read the full passage →

whose voice the earth shook then, and now hath he promised, saying, `Yet once--I shake not only the earth, but also the heaven;'

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

lo, I Paul do say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing;

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman,

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

have ye not known that we shall judge messengers? why not then the things of life?

have ye not known that the saints shall judge the world? and if by you the world is judged, are ye unworthy of the smaller judgments?

for I indeed, as being absent as to the body, and present as to the spirit, have already judged, as being present, him who so wrought this thing:

for his disciples were gone away to the city, that they may buy victuals;

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

Words of Lemuel a king, a declaration that his mother taught him: — read the full passage →

A Song of the Ascents, by Solomon. If Jehovah doth not build the house, In vain have its builders laboured at it, If Jehovah doth not watch a city, In vain hath a watchman waked.

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

It had, indeed, then (even the first tabernacle) ordinances of service, also a worldly sanctuary, — read the full passage →

and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom, — read the full passage →

for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God.

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin. — read the full passage →

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

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

And upon this came his disciples, and were wondering that with a woman he was speaking, no one, however, said, `What seekest thou?' or `Why speakest thou with her?'

but, there cometh an hour, and it now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father also doth seek such to worship him;

and it was behoving him to go through Samaria.

this one came unto him by night, and said to him, `Rabbi, we have known that from God thou hast come--a teacher, for no one these signs is able to do that thou dost, if God may not be with him.'

there cometh a woman out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith to her, `Give me to drink;'

and having opened his mouth, he was teaching them, saying:

For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you--an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.

Lift thine eyes to the high places, and see, Where hast thou not been lain with? On the ways thou hast sat for them, As an Arab in a wilderness, And thou defilest the land, By thy fornications, and by thy wickedness.