Suing A Dead Mans Wife

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 →

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

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.

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

for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;

And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made <FI>them<Fi> , from the beginning a male and a female made them, — read the full passage →

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.

Women--in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.

but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.

`for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh;'

also filthiness, and foolish talking, or jesting, --the things not fit--but rather thanksgiving;

A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will--only in the Lord;

And, if the unbelieving doth separate himself--let him separate himself: the brother or the sister is not under servitude in such <FI>cases<Fi> , and in peace hath God called us;

`Take heed your kindness not to do before men, to be seen by them, and if not--reward ye have not from your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens; — read the full passage →

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won, — read the full passage →

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

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — 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.

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

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

for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband; — read the full passage →

`Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.

And having risen thence, he doth come to the coasts of Judea, through the other side of the Jordan, and again do multitudes come together unto him, and, as he had been accustomed, again he was teaching them. — read the full passage →

And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made <FI>them<Fi> , from the beginning a male and a female made them,

`Happy the mourning--because they shall be comforted.

And having seen the multitudes, he went up to the mount, and he having sat down, his disciples came to him, — read the full passage →

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of <FI>their<Fi> husbands, lovers of <FI>their<Fi> children,

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

and to the married I announce--not I, but the Lord--let not a wife separate from a husband:

`And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'

He saith to them--`Moses for your stiffness of heart did suffer you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it hath not been so.

Here is endurance of the saints: here <FI>are<Fi> those keeping the commands of God, and the faith of Jesus.'

for thus once also the holy women who did hope on God, were adorning themselves, being subject to their own husbands,

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of <FI>their<Fi> husbands, lovers of <FI>their<Fi> children, — read the full passage →

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a judgment of the devil;

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord--the assembly,

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife--himself he doth love;

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

for I wish all men to be even as I myself <FI>am<Fi> ; but each his own gift hath of God, one indeed thus, and one thus.

the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife.

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

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 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;

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 the law of the Spirit of the life in Christ Jesus did set me free from the law of the sin and of the death;

So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;

so, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man's; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man's.

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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.

that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit.

and they said, `Moses suffered to write a bill of divorce, and to put away.'

`The reign of the heavens was likened to a man, a king, who made marriage-feasts for his son,

And Jesus answering, again spake to them in similes, saying, — read the full passage →

so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'

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?

And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, `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 finished these words, he removed from Galilee, and did come to the borders of Judea, beyond the Jordan, — read the full passage →

whenever, therefore, thou mayest do kindness, thou mayest not sound a trumpet before thee as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues, and in the streets, that they may have glory from men; verily I say to you--they have their reward!

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