Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not i
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, n
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and gre
God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”
For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater) has any inheritance in the king
So then, he who marries the virgin does well, but he who does not marry her does even better.
A deacon must be the husband of but one wife, a good manager of his children and of his own household.
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers
So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed u
An overseer must manage his own household well and keep his children under control, with complete dignity.
The woman he marries must be a virgin.
Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?
An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, having children who are believers and who are not open to accus
They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from certain foods that God has created to be received with thanksgiv
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the
But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and
So I advise the younger widows to marry, have children, and manage their households, denying the adversary occasion for
An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospita
So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went and spoke to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum
And I had relations with the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. The LORD said to me, “Name him Maher
To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?
See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.