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He who is emasculated by crushing or cutting shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly.

Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother.” — read the full passage →

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. — 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.”

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. — read the full passage →

God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

“Say to Aaron, ‘None of your seed throughout their generations who has a defect may approach to offer the bread of his God. — read the full passage →

That which has its testicles bruised, crushed, broken, or cut, you shall not offer to Yahweh; neither shall you do thus in your land.

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

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.

“Say to Aaron, ‘None of your seed throughout their generations who has a defect may approach to offer the bread of his God. — read the full passage →

Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.”

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

“Say to Aaron, ‘None of your seed throughout their generations who has a defect may approach to offer the bread of his God. — read the full passage →

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.

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 →

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from your midst. — read the full passage →

Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding: — read the full passage →

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, — read the full passage →

“If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman’s husband demands and the judges allow. — read the full passage →

But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise, and go toward the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert.” — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off. — read the full passage →

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

Neither let the foreigner, who has joined himself to Yahweh, speak, saying, “Yahweh will surely separate me from his people”; neither let the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.” — read the full passage →

He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!

or hunchbacked, or a dwarf, or one who has a defect in his eye, or an itching disease, or scabs, or who has damaged testicles.

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

At that time, Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. — read the full passage →

“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.”

Neither let the foreigner, who has joined himself to Yahweh, speak, saying, “Yahweh will surely separate me from his people”; neither let the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.” — read the full passage →

For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things: — read the full passage →

“Therefore my judgment is that we don’t trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God, — 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 →

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,

I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

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.

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.

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. — read the full passage →

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

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

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

Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

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

They therefore, when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the Good News to many villages of the Samaritans. — 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.

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

to whom Yahweh’s word came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees; — read the full passage →

An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

Yahweh is high above all nations, his glory above the heavens.

Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her, and went in to her.

God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth”; and it was so.

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 I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. — read the full passage →

to them I will give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters; I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” — read the full passage →

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, — read the full passage →

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

My defense to those who examine me is this.

But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak. — read the full passage →

The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.

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

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 →

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything. — read the full passage →

What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh? — read the full passage →

The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, — read the full passage →

For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’

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

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.

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna. — read the full passage →

to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.

Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table. — read the full passage →

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. — read the full passage →

He will love you, bless you, multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you. — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

“‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.

“‘You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.

Onan knew that the seed wouldn’t be his; and when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother. — read the full passage →

This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your seed after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised. — read the full passage →

God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

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 this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.