18 Jehovah God said: »It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.«

21 Jehovah God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. While he was sleeping, he took one of the mans ribs and closed up the place with flesh.22 Then Jehovah made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man. He brought her to the man.23 The man said: »This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called Woman. This is because she was taken out of Man.«24 This is the reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife. They will become one flesh.

24 This is the reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife. They will become one flesh.25 The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

24 This is the reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife. They will become one flesh.

22 Then Jehovah made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man. He brought her to the man.23 The man said: »This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called Woman. This is because she was taken out of Man.«24 This is the reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife. They will become one flesh.

26 Then God said: »Let us make man in our image, in our likeness. Let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground.«27 God created man in his own image. In the image of God he created him. He created male and female.28 God blessed them and said to them: »Be fruitful and increase in number. Fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and dominate the birds of the air. Have dominion over every living creature that moves on the ground.«

1 Adam had sexual intercourse with his wife Eve. She became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said: »With the help of Jehovah I have brought forth a man.«25 Adam had intercourse with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth. She said: »God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.«

6 »So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What God has joined together, let no man pull apart separate!«

4 He answered: »Have you not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female?5 »For this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife. The two shall become one flesh.6 »So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What God has joined together, let no man pull apart separate!«

5 »For this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife. The two shall become one flesh.6 »So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What God has joined together, let no man pull apart separate!«

31 »Again, it was said, Whoever gets rid of his wife has to give her a certificate of divorce.32 »I say to you that everyone divorcing his wife, except for the reason of fornication, makes her liable to commit adultery. And if she marries again, the man she marries also commits adultery.

27 »You have heard it was said, You should not commit adultery.28 »However, I tell you that whoever looks at a woman with lustful thoughts commits adultery with her in his heart.

4 They said: »Moses allowed us to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.«5 »He wrote this commandment because of your hard hearts,« Jesus replied.6 »God made male and female from the beginning of creation.7 »For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and unite with his wife.8 »The two shall become one flesh. They are no longer two, but one flesh.9 »That which God has joined together let not man take apart separate.«

12 »If she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.

4 Let marriage be honorable among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled: for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

4 Let marriage be honorable among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled: for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

4 Let marriage be honorable among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled: for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

25 Husbands love your wives, even as Christ also loved the congregation and gave himself up for it.26 This is so he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word.

25 Husbands love your wives, even as Christ also loved the congregation and gave himself up for it.26 This is so he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word.27 So he will be able to present the congregation to himself as a glorious congregation, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing. It should be holy and without blemish.

25 Husbands love your wives, even as Christ also loved the congregation and gave himself up for it.26 This is so he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word.27 So he will be able to present the congregation to himself as a glorious congregation, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing. It should be holy and without blemish.28 In this way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his own wife loves himself.29 No man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ also does the congregation.30 And we are members of his body!

28 In this way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his own wife loves himself.

28 In this way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his own wife loves himself.29 No man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ also does the congregation.30 And we are members of his body!

22 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.23 For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the congregation, he being the savior of the body.24 The congregation is subject to Christ. Likewise let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.

22 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.23 For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the congregation, he being the savior of the body.

22 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.23 For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the congregation, he being the savior of the body.24 The congregation is subject to Christ. Likewise let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.25 Husbands love your wives, even as Christ also loved the congregation and gave himself up for it.26 This is so he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word.27 So he will be able to present the congregation to himself as a glorious congregation, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing. It should be holy and without blemish.28 In this way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his own wife loves himself.29 No man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ also does the congregation.30 And we are members of his body!31 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother, and will stick adherecleavebe joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.32 This secret is great! I speak with regard to Christ and of the congregation.33 Each one of you should love his own wife even as himself. The wife should respect her husband.

31 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother, and will stick adherecleavebe joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.

33 Each one of you should love his own wife even as himself. The wife should respect her husband.

33 Each one of you should love his own wife even as himself. The wife should respect her husband.

3 Fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among holy ones.

18 Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.19 Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

14 Above all these things, put on love, which is the bond of perfection and unity.15 Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts. You were called in one body for this purpose. You be thankful.16 Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you with all wisdom. Teach and admonish one another with psalms, praises to God, and spiritual songs. Sing with gratitude in your hearts to God.17 Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus. Give thanks to God the Father through him.

14 Above all these things, put on love, which is the bond of perfection and unity.

5 Make your members that are upon the earth dead with regard to fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness greed, which is idolatry.

7 In the same way, you husbands live with your wives in an understanding way. Honor the woman as the weaker vessel. For you are joint-heirs of the grace of life. May your prayers not be hindered cut-offblocked.

7 In the same way, you husbands live with your wives in an understanding way. Honor the woman as the weaker vessel. For you are joint-heirs of the grace of life. May your prayers not be hindered cut-offblocked.

14 »Do not commit adultery.

17 »Do not covet desire another mans house. Do not desire his wife, his slaves, his cattle, his donkeys, or anything else that he owns.

2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

3 Let the husband fulfill his marital duties to his wife and also the wife to her husband.4 The wife has no authority over her own body, but her husband does. Likewise also the husband has no authority over his own body, but his wife does.

3 Let the husband fulfill his marital duties to his wife and also the wife to her husband.4 The wife has no authority over her own body, but her husband does. Likewise also the husband has no authority over his own body, but his wife does.5 Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent for a time. That way you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer. Then come together again, that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

3 Let the husband fulfill his marital duties to his wife and also the wife to her husband.4 The wife has no authority over her own body, but her husband does. Likewise also the husband has no authority over his own body, but his wife does.5 Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent for a time. That way you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer. Then come together again, that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they stay unmarried like me.9 But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. It is better to marry than to be inflamed with lust.10 To the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord commands do not let the wife depart from her husband.11 If she leaves, let her remain unmarried or become reconciled to her husband. A husband should not divorce his wife.

14 For the wife sanctifies the unbelieving husband, and the husband sanctifies the unbelieving wife. Otherwise your children would be unclean. But now they are holy.

32 I want you to be free from anxiety. He who is unmarried cares for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord.33 But he who is married cares for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. She who is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

39 The wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. If her husband dies, she is free to marry whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

1 Concerning the things that you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch have sex with a woman.2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

18 Flee from fornication! Every sin that a man does is outside his body. But he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.19 What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit? That one Greek: »hos he ho« which, that one is in you. You received it from God. You are not your own.20 You are bought with a price! Therefore glorify God in your body.

13 Foods are for the belly, and the belly for foods, but God will destroy both of them. Now the body is not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.14 God has resurrected the Lord, and will also resurrect us by his own power.

9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither fornicators, nor people who worship idols, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,10 nor thieves, nor covetous greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortionists, will inherit the kingdom of God.

4 Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is not jealous. Love does not brag and is not arrogant proud.5 Love does not act indecently. It is not selfish. It is not provoked and does not take into account a wrong suffered.6 Love does not rejoice with evil, but rejoices with the truth.7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul impaled for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?14 I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius.15 So no one should say that I baptized in my own name.16 I also baptized the household of Stephanas. Besides that I do not know whether I baptized any others.17 Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the good news: not with wisdom of words, lest the stake of Christ be emptied of its effect.

1 It is reported that there is sexual immorality among you. This type of fornication is not even found among the people of the nations who do not know God. There is a man who has his fathers wife.2 And you are proud! You should have been filled with sadness that he did this deed. And you should have ejected expelledexcommunicateddisfellowshiped him from your congregation.

22 The man who finds a wife finds a good thing. He obtains favor from Jehovah.

22 The man who finds a wife finds a good thing. He obtains favor from Jehovah.

22 The man who finds a wife finds a good thing. He obtains favor from Jehovah.

14 Real estate and riches are the inheritance of fathers. A prudent wisesensible wife is from Jehovah.

18 Let your fountain be blessed. Rejoice with the wife of your youth.19 She is like a loving deer and a graceful doe. Let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Always be delighted with her love.

3 The lips of an immoral woman drip as a honeycomb. Her mouth is smoother than oil.4 But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two edged sword.5 Her feet go down to death. Her steps take hold of the grave.6 She does not ponder the path of life. Her unstable ways she does not know.7 Hear me now my son. Do not depart from the words of my mouth.8 Keep far away from her. Do not go near the door of her house.9 You will give your honor majesty to others and your years to the cruel one.

3 The lips of an immoral woman drip as a honeycomb. Her mouth is smoother than oil.4 But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two edged sword.5 Her feet go down to death. Her steps take hold of the grave.6 She does not ponder the path of life. Her unstable ways she does not know.

8 Keep far away from her. Do not go near the door of her house.9 You will give your honor majesty to others and your years to the cruel one.10 Strangers will be filled with your financial strength. Strangers will benefit from your hard work.11 You mourn at last, when your flesh and your body are consumed.12 You say: »How I have hated instruction! My heart despised reproof.13 »I did not obey the voice of my teachers. I did not listen to my instructors!14 »I was very near total ruin in the midst of the congregation.«

19 She is like a loving deer and a graceful doe. Let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Always be delighted with her love.20 Why will you be intimate with an immoral woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

29 He who has sex with another mans wife; anyone who embraces her will not be innocent.

32 He who commits adultery with a woman lacks judgment and destroys himself.

32 He who commits adultery with a woman lacks judgment and destroys himself.33 He will get wounds and be dishonored. His shame will not be wiped away.34 Jealousy enrages a man. He will not be spared in the day of vengeance.35 He will not regard any ransom, nor will he be content when you give many gifts.

4 A virtuous wife is a crown to her husband. She who acts shameful is rottenness in his bones.

9 A man's heart determines his way. Jehovah directs his steps.

9 It is better to dwell on the corner of the roof than to share the house with a contentious combative woman.

10 Who can find a virtuous woman? For her value is far above corals.

15 »Did God make you one? Your flesh and spirit belong to him. What does God look for but godly descendants? Do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.16 »I hate divorce and he who covers his garment with violence, said Jehovah, the God of Israel. Jehovah of Hosts declares: Guard yourselves and do not deal treacherously.«

14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship does righteousness have with lawlessness? Or what communion does light have with darkness?

3 This is the will of God, for your sanctification holinesspurification, that you should abstain from fornication.4 Every one of you should know how to possess his own vessel in holiness and honor,5 not in the lust of sexual desire like the nations who do not know God.

15 See that no one renders evil for evil to anyone. But follow that which is good, both among you, and to all men.

10 It is for fornicators, for abusers of themselves with men, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and everything else that is contrary to the sound teaching.

2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate in habits, sound in mind, orderly, hospitable, qualified to teach;12 Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

6 A blameless man will be the husband of one wife. He will have children that believe and who are not accused of violence and disobedience.

5 »A newly married man must not be drafted into the army or charged with any duty. He shall be free at home one year and shall give happiness to the wife he has married.

1 »When a man marries a woman and later decides he does not love her because he found something he does not like about her he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house.

13 »If a man marries a woman and has sex with her and then turns against her,14 he charges her with shameful deeds and publicly defames her. He says: When I had sex with this woman, I did not find proof of her virginity.15 »The girl's father and her mother must present evidence of the girl's virginity to the elders of the city at the gate.16 »The girl's father shall say to the elders: I gave my daughter to be this mans wife, but he turned against her.17 »He has charged her with shameful deeds. He says: I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.« »But this is the evidence of my daughter's virginity.« And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.

8 »Do not disgrace him by having sex with any of his other wives.20 »Do not have sexual intercourse with your neighbor's wife and become unclean with her.

10 »If a man commits adultery with the wife of an Israelite, both he and the woman should be put to death.13 »When a man has sexual intercourse with another man as with a woman, both men are doing something disgusting and must be put to death. They deserve to die!

7 »Never marry prostitutes, those who have lost their virginity, or divorced women because a priest is God's holy man.

13 »The anointed priest should marry a virgin.14 »He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, a woman who has lost her virginity, or a prostitute. He may only marry a virgin from his own people.

6 The Shulamite to her Beloved »Set me as a signature ring seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For Love is as strong as death. Zeal devotion is as fixed as the grave. And zeal burns like coals of fire, the very flame of Jehovah.7 »Many waters cannot quench love. Rivers cannot wash it away. If a man would give all the riches of his house for love, it would be utterly despised.«

7 »Many waters cannot quench love. Rivers cannot wash it away. If a man would give all the riches of his house for love, it would be utterly despised.«

7 »You are all fair, my love. There is no spot in you.

5 »Your two breasts are like two young gazelles that are twins, which feed among the lilies.9 »You have ravished my heart, my sister, and my spouse. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain around your neck.

6 »His left hand is under my head. His right hand embraces me.«

2 The Shulamite »Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth. Your love is better than wine.

9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of the life he has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity. That is your share in this life and in your labor under the sun.

9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of the life he has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity. That is your share in this life and in your labor under the sun.

9 Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor.10 If they fall, the one will lift up his companion. Woe to him who is alone when he falls for he has no one to help him.11 If two lies down together they keep warm. How can one be warm alone?12 One can be overpowered by another, two can withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

14 Return, you disobedient people, proclaims Jehovah. I am your husband. I will take you, one from every city and two from every family, and bring you to Zion.

2 When Jehovah first spoke through Hosea, Jehovah said to Hosea, »Go and marry an adulterous wife and have children with her for the land commits flagrant adultery. They have abandoned Jehovah.«

2 »Plead with your mother your nation, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband. Let her put away her acts of adultery from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts!

36 »You chased after lovers, then took off your clothes and had sex. You even worshiped disgusting idols and sacrificed your own children as offerings to them.37 »So I, the Lord Jehovah, will gather every one of your lovers, those you liked and those you hated. They will stand around you, and I will rip off your clothes and let all of those lovers stare at your nakedness.

17 Jehovah inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household because of Abrams wife Sarai.18 So Pharaoh summoned Abram. »What have you done to me?« he asked. »Why did you not tell me she was your wife?

1 Sarai, Abrams wife, had borne him no children. She had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.2 She said to Abram: »Jehovah has kept me from having children. Go sleep with my maidservant. Perhaps I can build a family through her.« Abram agreed to what Sarai said.3 After Abram lived in Canaan ten years, Sarai, his wife, gave her Egyptian maidservant Hagar to her husband to be his wife.

10 He said: »Next year I will give you and Sarah a son.« Sarah was listening in the tent door behind him.11 Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself. She said to herself: "After I have grown old, shall I have a baby? My lord is old also."

9 Onan knew that the children would not belong to him. So when he had intercourse with his brothers widow, he let the semen spill on the ground, assuring that there would be no children for his brother.10 What he did displeased Jehovah. So Jehovah killed him also.

24 David comforted his wife Bathsheba. He went to bed with her, and she later gave birth to a son. David named him Solomon. Jehovah loved the child.

21 Abijah became strong. He married fourteen wives and fathered twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

29 »These are the instructions for how to deal with jealousy. They tell you what to do when a woman is unfaithful to her husband and becomes unclean.30 »They also tell you what to do when a husband has a fit of jealousy and is suspicious of his wife. He will make his wife stand in Jehovahs presence. The priest will do everything these instructions tell him to do.

1 »Sing joyfully, O barren woman, you who never bore a child! Burst into song and shout for joy, you who were never in labor! More are the children of the desolate woman than of the woman, who has a husband,« proclaims Jehovah.

10 I will rejoice greatly in Jehovah. I will exult in my God for he has clothed me with garments of salvation. He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

36 Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher was a very old prophetess.

8 »When you are invited to a marriage feast do not take the place of honor. Someone more distinguished than you may be invited.

18 »A man who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery. The man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery. Jesus continued to tell illustrations.

27 »They ate, they drank and they got married until Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came, and destroyed them all.

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29 »Everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will receive many times as much, and have everlasting life.

24 »Teacher, Moses said if a man dies having no children, his brother should marry his wife, and bring up seed for his brother.30 »In the resurrection they will not marry nor be given in marriage. They will be like the angels in heaven.

19 »Evil thoughts come from the heart! Thoughts about murder, adultery, fornication, theft, lying, and slander come from the heart!

19 Now the works of the flesh sinful human nature are apparent. They are: fornication, uncleanness, loose conduct,20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, wrath, contentions, divisions, sects,21 envies, drunkenness, revelries, and things like these. I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that those who practice such things would not inherit the kingdom of God.

3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine inside your home. Your children will be like young olive trees around your table.

2 Law binds the married woman to her husband while he lives. But if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.3 So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she will be called an adulteress. If the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

20 "'But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads my servants astray so that they commit immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.

21 Neither did they repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

2 "True and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great harlot, who corrupted the earth with her fornication. And has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand."