Wedlock

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.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

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

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.

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

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 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 →

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 →

If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.

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

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

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

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 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.”

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.

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

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 →

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 →

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.

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

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. — read the full passage →

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

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

For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons shall marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so your God will rejoice over 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 →

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. — read the full passage →

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love. — read the full passage →

Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not. — read the full passage →

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 →

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

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

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →

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

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.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. — 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 →

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

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.”

He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there. — 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;

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →

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

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

which has come to you; even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;

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

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.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — 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.

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.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service. — read the full passage →

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.

As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them, — read the full passage →

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 →

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: — read the full passage →

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

Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.

You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

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.

A person born of a forbidden union shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one of his enter into Yahweh’s assembly.

The man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.

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,

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, — read the full passage →

As many as desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. — read the full passage →

For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face.

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek. — read the full passage →

But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”

He said to them, “The kings of the nations lord it over them, and those who have authority over them are called ‘benefactors.’

Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.

Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.

Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; and wine to the bitter in soul: — 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. — read the full passage →

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

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; — read the full passage →

But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins.

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.