The Sanctity Of Marriage

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

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

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 →

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 →

`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 Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper--as his counterpart.'

<FI> Whoso<Fi> hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

`Thou dost not commit adultery.

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, — read the full passage →

For <FI>I<Fi> hate sending away, said Jehovah, God of Israel, And He <FI>who<Fi> hath covered violence with his clothing, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And ye do not deal treacherously.

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?' — read the full passage →

`And it was said, That whoever may put away his wife, let him give to her a writing of divorce; — read the full passage →

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;

`When a man doth take a wife, and hath married her, and it hath been, if she doth not find grace in his eyes (for he hath found in her nakedness of anything), and he hath written for her a writing of divorce, and given <FI>it<Fi> into her hand, and sent her out of his house, — read the full passage →

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

And the Pharisees, having come near, questioned him, if it is lawful for a husband to put away a wife, tempting him, — read the full passage →

`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.'

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.

what therefore God did join together, let not man put asunder.'

A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies <FI>is<Fi> her price.

House and wealth <FI>are<Fi> the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> an understanding wife.

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them. — read the full passage →

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.

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 →

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

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 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 to the married I announce--not I, but the Lord--let not a wife separate from a husband: — read the full passage →

What, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound? — 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,

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

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

`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;'

but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them; — 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 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?'

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.

`Before I form thee in the belly, I have known thee; and before thou comest forth from the womb I have separated thee, a prophet to nations I have made thee.'

And if the one strengthen himself, the two stand against him; and the threefold cord is not hastily broken.

`Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

And Jehovah God buildeth up the rib which He hath taken out of the man into a woman, and bringeth her in unto the man; — read the full passage →

And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper--as his counterpart.' — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

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 →

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love, — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love--these three; and the greatest of these <FI>is<Fi> love.

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

have we not authority a sister--a wife--to lead about, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband; — read the full passage →

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

Have ye not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make <FI>them<Fi> members of an harlot? let it be not! — read the full passage →

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?

Are ye ignorant, brethren--for to those knowing law I speak--that the law hath lordship over the man as long as he liveth? — read the full passage →

Wherefore also God did give them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies among themselves; — read the full passage →

And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; — read the full passage →

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 →

And the third day a marriage happened in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there,

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,

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.

`Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not commit adultery; — read the full passage →

And ye have said, `Wherefore?' Because Jehovah hath testified between thee And the wife of thy youth, That thou hast dealt treacherously against her, And she thy companion, and thy covenant-wife. — read the full passage →

Dealt treacherously hath Judah, And abomination hath been done in Israel, and in Jerusalem, For polluted hath Judah the holy thing of Jehovah, That He hath loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

Set me as a seal on thy heart, as a seal on thine arm, For strong as death is love, Sharp as Sheol is jealousy, Its burnings <FI>are<Fi> burnings of fire, a flame of Jah! — read the full passage →

Three things have been too wonderful for me, Yea, four that I have not known: — read the full passage →

`Thou dost not see the ox of thy brother or his sheep driven away, and hast hidden thyself from them, thou dost certainly turn them back to thy brother; — read the full passage →

`And with a male thou dost not lie as one lieth with a woman; abomination it <FI>is<Fi> .

and enmity I put between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he doth bruise thee--the head, and thou dost bruise him--the heel.'

And Jehovah God buildeth up the rib which He hath taken out of the man into a woman, and bringeth her in unto the man;

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

and we--we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us;

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works, — read the full passage →

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; — read the full passage →

and above all these things, <FI>have<Fi> love, which is a bond of the perfection,

So then, my brethren, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand ye in the Lord, beloved. — read the full passage →

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

because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ <FI>is<Fi> head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

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

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called, — read the full passage →

let all your things be done in love.

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

but neither <FI>is<Fi> a man apart from a woman, nor a woman apart from a man, in the Lord,

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.

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, — read the full passage →

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband; — 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.

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, — read the full passage →

Dare any one of you, having a matter with the other, go to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled,