The Marriage Bed

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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 →

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →

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

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

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

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

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh. — 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;

But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her. — read the full passage →

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

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

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

For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

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

But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

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

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

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 who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →

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.

“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.

God spoke all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

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

I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

A gracious woman obtains honor, but violent men obtain riches. — read the full passage →

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, my beloved. — read the full passage →

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, my beloved. — read the full passage →

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

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.

The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat; The calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them. — read the full passage →

Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

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.”

For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh; — read the full passage →

All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →