Suing A Dead Mans Wife

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 →

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

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

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

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.

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 →

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.

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.

Women in like manner must be grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks.

A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

Yet if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us in peace.

Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen of them: else ye have no reward with your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.

And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

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; — read the full passage →

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

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — 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.

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?

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

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. — read the full passage →

Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth one that is put away from a husband committeth adultery.

And he arose from thence, and cometh into the borders of Judæa and beyond the Jordan: and multitudes come together unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again. — 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,

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

And seeing the multitudes, he went up into the mountain: and when he had sat down, his disciples came unto him: — read the full passage →

Who hath believed our message? and to whom hath the arm of Jehovah been revealed? — read the full passage →

Send ye the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion. — read the full passage →

And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

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.

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;

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

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband

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.

He saith unto them, Moses for your hardness of heart suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it hath not been so.

Woe to the rebellious children, saith Jehovah, that take counsel, but not of me; and that make a league, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin, — read the full passage →

In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; salvation will he appoint for walls and bulwarks. — read the full passage →

O Jehovah, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things, even counsels of old, in faithfulness and truth. — read the full passage →

Let me sing for my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: — read the full passage →

Here is the patience of the saints, they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, 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 gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.

not a novice, lest being puffed up he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

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

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.

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

There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one man 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 would that all men were even as I myself. Howbeit each man hath his own gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.

The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

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

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:

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

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye should be joined to another, even to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.

So then if, while the husband liveth, she be joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be 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 only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.

The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son,

And Jesus answered and spake again in parables unto them, saying, — read the full passage →

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

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?

And there came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

and great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there.

And it came to pass when Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judæa beyond the Jordan; — read the full passage →

When therefore thou doest alms, sound not a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have received their reward.

and he opened his mouth and taught them, saying,

For I hate putting away, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith Jehovah of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

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.

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. — read the full passage →

In that day Jehovah with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea. — read the full passage →

The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it cometh from the wilderness, from a terrible land. — read the full passage →

Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia; — read the full passage →

And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit. — read the full passage →

But there shall be no gloom to her that was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time hath he made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. — read the full passage →

And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. — read the full passage →

In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. — read the full passage →

The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib; but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.

Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, And wine unto the bitter in soul:

What, my son? and what, O son of my womb? And what, O son of my vows?

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