Unmarried

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 →

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

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

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

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

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

But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

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.

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.

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.”

Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.

(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is.

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

For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.

But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; — read the full passage →

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

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

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

There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband.

Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.

Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn’t give her in marriage does better.

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

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am. — read the full passage →

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion. — read the full passage →

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

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,

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; — 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.

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 →

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, — 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.” — read the full passage →

Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you; therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life.

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

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 →

But he said to them, “Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given. — read the full passage →

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.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Adam wasn’t deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

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?

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. — read the full passage →

Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

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.

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband

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

Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →

Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind. — read the full passage →

“‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

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

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

“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.

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed. — read the full passage →

“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’

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.

He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, “like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh”.

Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.

But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

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

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 →

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.

Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;

“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’ — read the full passage →

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 →

Lamech took two wives: the name of the first one was Adah, and the name of the second one was Zillah.

and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own heart, to keep his own virgin, does well.

I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is. — read the full passage →

For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God. — read the full passage →

For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.”

I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, “Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape. — read the full passage →

For thus says Yahweh, “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my covenant: — read the full passage →

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.