18 Married women, be submissive to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
19 Married men, be affectionate to your wives, and do not treat them harshly.
3 Let a man pay his wife her due, and let a woman also pay her husband his.
4 A married woman is not mistress of her own person: her husband has certain rights. In the same way a married man is not master of his own person: his wife has certain rights.
14 And over all these put on love, which is the perfect bond of union;
15 and let the peace which Christ gives settle all questionings in your hearts, to which peace indeed you were called as belonging to His one Body; and be thankful.
16 Let the teaching concerning Christ remain as a rich treasure in your hearts. In all wisdom teach and admonish one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, and sing with grace in your hearts to God.
17 And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, and let it be through Him that you give thanks to God the Father.
5 Therefore put to death your earthward inclinations–fornication, impurity, sensual passion, unholy desire, and all greed, for that is a form of idolatry.
4 Let marriage be held in honour among all, and let the marriage bed be unpolluted; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
4 Let marriage be held in honour among all, and let the marriage bed be unpolluted; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
4 Let marriage be held in honour among all, and let the marriage bed be unpolluted; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
15 See to it that no one ever repays another with evil for evil; but always seek opportunities of doing good both to one another and to all the world.
27 Men were eating and drinking, taking wives and giving wives, up to the very day on which Noah entered the Ark, and the Deluge came and destroyed them all.
25 Married men, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up to death for her;
26 in order to make her holy, cleansing her with the baptismal water by the word,
18 Flee from fornication. Any other sin that a human being commits lies outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.
19 Or do you not know that your bodies are a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you–the Spirit whom you have from God?
20 And you are not your own, for you have been redeemed at infinite cost. Therefore glorify God in your bodies.
2 A wife, for instance, whose husband is living is bound to him by the Law; but if her husband dies the law that bound her to him has now no hold over her.
3 This accounts for the fact that if during her husband's life she lives with another man, she will be stigmatized as an adulteress; but that if her husband is dead she is no longer under the old prohibition, and even though she marries again, she is not an adulteress.
10 fornicators, sodomites, slave-dealers, liars and false witnesses; and for whatever else is opposed to wholesome teaching
3 But fornication and every kind of impurity, or covetousness, let them not even be mentioned among you, for they ought not to be named among God's people.
2 But because there is so much fornication every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman should have a husband.
8 But I tell the unmarried, and women who are widows, that it is well for them to remain as I am.
9 If, however, they cannot maintain self-control, by all means let them marry; for marriage is better than the fever of passion.
10 But to those already married my instructions are –yet not mine, but the Lord's– that a wife is not to leave her husband;
11 or if she has already left him, let her either remain as she is or be reconciled to him; and that a husband is not to send away his wife.
19 Now you know full well the doings of our lower natures. Fornication, impurity, indecency, idol-worship, sorcery;
20 enmity, strife, jealousy, outbursts of passion, intrigues, dissensions, factions, envyings;
21 hard drinking, riotous feasting, and the like. And as to these I forewarn you, as I have already forewarned you, that those who are guilty of such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God.
4 »Have you not read,« He replied, »that He who made them made them' from the beginning male and female,
5 and said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall be one'?
6 Thus they are no longer two, but one'! What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.«
8 »When any one invites you to a wedding banquet, do not take the best seat, lest perhaps some more honoured guest than you may have been asked,
21 Nor did they repent of their murders, their practice of magic, their fornication, or their thefts.
28 So too married men ought to love their wives as much as they love themselves. He who loves his wife loves himself.
29 For never yet has a man hated his own body. On the contrary he feeds and cherishes it, just as Christ feeds and cherishes the Church;
30 because we are, as it were, parts of His Body.
3 For this is God's will–your purity of life, that you abstain from fornication;
4 that each man among you shall know how to procure a wife who shall be his own in purity and honour;
5 that you be not overmastered by lustful cravings, like the Gentiles who have no knowledge of God;
25 Married men, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up to death for her;
26 in order to make her holy, cleansing her with the baptismal water by the word,
27 that He might present the Church to Himself a glorious bride, without spot or wrinkle or any other defect, but to be holy and unblemished.
29 And whoever has forsaken houses, or brothers or sisters, or father or mother, or children or lands, for my sake, shall receive many times as much and shall have as his inheritance the Life of the Ages.
25 Married men, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up to death for her;
26 in order to make her holy, cleansing her with the baptismal water by the word,
27 that He might present the Church to Himself a glorious bride, without spot or wrinkle or any other defect, but to be holy and unblemished.
28 So too married men ought to love their wives as much as they love themselves. He who loves his wife loves himself.
29 For never yet has a man hated his own body. On the contrary he feeds and cherishes it, just as Christ feeds and cherishes the Church;
30 because we are, as it were, parts of His Body.
32 And I would have you free from worldly anxiety. An unmarried man concerns himself with the Lord's business–how he shall please the Lord;
33 but a married man concerns himself with the business of the world–how he shall please his wife.
34 There is a difference too between a married and an unmarried woman. She who is unmarried concerns herself with the Lord's business –that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but the married woman concerns herself with the business of the world– how she shall please her husband.
28 So too married men ought to love their wives as much as they love themselves. He who loves his wife loves himself.
22 Married women, submit to your own husbands as if to the Lord;
23 because a husband is the Head of his wife as Christ also is the Head of the Church, being indeed the Saviour of this His Body.
24 And just as the Church submits to Christ, so also married women should be entirely submissive to their husbands.
25 Married men, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up to death for her;
26 in order to make her holy, cleansing her with the baptismal water by the word,
27 that He might present the Church to Himself a glorious bride, without spot or wrinkle or any other defect, but to be holy and unblemished.
28 So too married men ought to love their wives as much as they love themselves. He who loves his wife loves himself.
29 For never yet has a man hated his own body. On the contrary he feeds and cherishes it, just as Christ feeds and cherishes the Church;
30 because we are, as it were, parts of His Body.
31 »For this reason a man is to leave his father and his mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall be as one.«
32 That is a great truth hitherto kept secret: I mean the truth concerning Christ and the Church.
33 Yet I insist that among you also, each man is to love his own wife as much as he loves himself, and let a married woman see to it that she treats her husband with respect.
27 »You have heard that it was said, Thou shalt not commit adultery.'«
28 But I tell you that whoever looks at a woman and cherishes lustful thoughts has already in his heart become guilty with regard to her.
31 »For this reason a man is to leave his father and his mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall be as one.«
9 Do you not know that unrighteous men will not inherit God's Kingdom? Cherish no delusion here. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor any who are guilty of unnatural crime,
10 nor theives, nor avaricious people, nor any who are addicted to hard drinking, to abusive language or to greed of gain, will inherit God's Kingdom.
4 Love is patient and kind. Love knows neither envy nor jealousy. Love is not forward and self-assertive, nor boastful and conceited.
5 She does not behave unbecomingly, nor seek to aggrandize herself, nor blaze out in passionate anger, nor brood over wrongs.
6 She finds no pleasure in injustice done to others, but joyfully sides with the truth.
7 She knows how to be silent. She is full of trust, full of hope, full of patient endurance.
1 I now deal with the subjects mentioned in your letter. It is well for a man to abstain altogether from marriage.
2 But because there is so much fornication every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman should have a husband.
7 Married men, in the same way, live with your wives with a clear recognition of the fact that they are weaker than you. Yet, since you are heirs with them of God's free gift of Life, treat them with honour; so that your prayers may not be hindered.
7 Married men, in the same way, live with your wives with a clear recognition of the fact that they are weaker than you. Yet, since you are heirs with them of God's free gift of Life, treat them with honour; so that your prayers may not be hindered.
13 Food of all kinds is meant for the stomach, and the stomach is meant for food, and God will cause both of them to perish. Yet the body does not exist for the purpose of fornication, but for the Master's service, and the Master exists for the body;
14 and as God by His power raised the Master to life, so He will also raise us up.
33 Yet I insist that among you also, each man is to love his own wife as much as he loves himself, and let a married woman see to it that she treats her husband with respect.
33 Yet I insist that among you also, each man is to love his own wife as much as he loves himself, and let a married woman see to it that she treats her husband with respect.
39 A woman is bound to her husband during the whole period that he lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to marry whom she will, provided that he is a Christian.
6 wherever there is a man of blameless life, true to his one wife, having children who are themselves believers and are free from every reproach of profligacy or of stubborn self-will.
3 Let a man pay his wife her due, and let a woman also pay her husband his.
4 A married woman is not mistress of her own person: her husband has certain rights. In the same way a married man is not master of his own person: his wife has certain rights.
5 Do not refuse one another, unless perhaps it is just for a time and by mutual consent, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer and may then associate again; lest the Adversary begin to tempt you because of your deficiency in self-control.
3 Let a man pay his wife her due, and let a woman also pay her husband his.
4 A married woman is not mistress of her own person: her husband has certain rights. In the same way a married man is not master of his own person: his wife has certain rights.
5 Do not refuse one another, unless perhaps it is just for a time and by mutual consent, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer and may then associate again; lest the Adversary begin to tempt you because of your deficiency in self-control.
14 And over all these put on love, which is the perfect bond of union;
12 and if a woman puts away her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.«
1 It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and of a kind unheard of even among the Gentiles–a man has his father's wife!
2 And you, instead of mourning and removing from among you the man who has done this deed of shame, are filled with self-complacency!
4 »Moses,« they said, »permitted a man to draw up a written notice of divorce, and to send his wife away.«
5 »It was in consideration of your stubborn hearts,« said Jesus, »that Moses enacted this law for you;
6 but from the beginning of the creation the rule was, Male and female did God make them.
7 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cling to his wife,
8 and the two shall be one'; so that they are two no longer, but one.'
9 What, therefore, God has joined together let not man separate.«
14 Do not come into close association with unbelievers, like oxen yoked with asses. For what is there in common between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what partnership has light with darkness?
20 Yet I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and by her teaching leads astray My servants, so that they commit fornication and eat what has been sacrificed to idols.
24 »Teacher,« they said, »Moses enjoined, If a man die childless, his brother shall marry his widow, and raise up a family for him.'
30 For in the Resurrection, men neither marry nor are women given in marriage, but they are like angels in Heaven.
10 Then, raising His head, Jesus said to her, »Where are they? Has no one condemned you?«
11 »No one, Sir,« she replied. »And I do not condemn you either,« said Jesus; »go, and from this time do not sin any more.«]
22 Married women, submit to your own husbands as if to the Lord;
23 because a husband is the Head of his wife as Christ also is the Head of the Church, being indeed the Saviour of this His Body.
2 True and just are His judgments, because He has judged the great Harlot who was corrupting the whole earth with her fornication, and He has taken vengeance for the blood of His bondservants which her hands have shed.«
2 A minister then must be a man of irreproachable character, true to his one wife, temperate, sober-minded, well-behaved, hospitable to strangers, and with a gift for teaching;
12 A deacon must be true to his one wife, and rule his children and his own household wisely and well.
5 and said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall be one'?
6 Thus they are no longer two, but one'! What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.«
14 For, in such cases, the unbelieving husband has become –and is– holy through union with a Christian woman, and the unbelieving wife is holy through union with a Christian brother. Otherwise your children would be unholy, but in reality they have a place among God's people.
36 and a sword will pierce through your own soul also; that the reasonings in many hearts may be revealed.«
31 »It was also said, If any man puts away his wife, let him give her a written notice of divorce.'«
32 But I tell you that every man who puts away his wife except on the ground of unfaithfulness causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries her when so divorced commits adultery.
6 Thus they are no longer two, but one'! What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.«
22 Married women, submit to your own husbands as if to the Lord;
23 because a husband is the Head of his wife as Christ also is the Head of the Church, being indeed the Saviour of this His Body.
24 And just as the Church submits to Christ, so also married women should be entirely submissive to their husbands.