Suing A Dead Mans Wife

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. — 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.

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.

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

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.

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

Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

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

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

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.

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.

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.

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

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; — read the full passage →

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

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

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

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

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

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 →

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

He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them. — read the full passage →

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

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

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.

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;

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

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

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

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.”

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.

Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

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

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

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

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

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

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

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.

Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.

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 →

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

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.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

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

“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son,

Jesus answered and spoke again in parables to them, saying, — read the full passage →

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

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?’

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

Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.

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

Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,