Topic
The Sanctity Of Marriage
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Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →
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 →
Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.
Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.
“You shall not commit adultery.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
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.
Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” — read the full passage →
“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’ — read the full passage →
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.
When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →
If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →
Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” — read the full passage →
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.”
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.
What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. — read the full passage →
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
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 →
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
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.
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?’
But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? — 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;
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. — 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.”
Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
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.
“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. — read the full passage →
Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.” — read the full passage →
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.
Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. — read the full passage →
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! — read the full passage →
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?
Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? — read the full passage →
Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves, — read the full passage →
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →
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 →
The third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there.
He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ — read the full passage →
Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant. — read the full passage →
Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh. — read the full passage →
“There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don’t understand: — read the full passage →
You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely bring them again to your brother. — read the full passage →
“‘You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.
I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”
Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.
God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →
Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, my beloved. — read the full passage →
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →
And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →
Let all that you do be done in love.
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.
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.
Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; — read the full passage →
Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. — 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.
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →
Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
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