Casamento
O casamento é aliança sagrada instituída por Deus. Ele une marido e mulher em uma só carne — pacto de amor, fidelidade e companheirismo que reflete o amor de Cristo pela Igreja.
Fundamento divino
Não é bom que o homem esteja só. Deus criou o casamento como aliança de companheirismo, amor e fecundidade.
And the Lord God said, It is not good that a man be alone; make we to him an helper like to himself.
Therefore the Lord God sent sleep into Adam, and when he slept, God took one of his ribs, and filled flesh for it.
And the Lord God builded the rib which he had taken from Adam into a woman, and brought her to Adam.
And Adam said, This is now a bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; this shall be called virago, for she is taken of man.
Wherefore a man shall forsake [his] father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be twain [or two] in one flesh.
Wherefore a man shall forsake [his] father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be twain [or two] in one flesh.
Forsooth ever either was naked, that is, Adam and his wife, and they were not ashamed.
Wherefore a man shall forsake [his] father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be twain [or two] in one flesh.
And the Lord God builded the rib which he had taken from Adam into a woman, and brought her to Adam.
And Adam said, This is now a bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; this shall be called virago, for she is taken of man.
Wherefore a man shall forsake [his] father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be twain [or two] in one flesh.
and said, Make we man to our image and likeness, and be he sovereign to the fishes of the sea, and to the volatiles of heaven, and to [the] unreasonable beasts of [the] earth, and to each creature, and to each creeping beast or each reptile, which is moved in [the] earth.
And God made of nought a man to his image and likeness; God made of nought a man, to the image of God; God made of nought them, male and female.
And God blessed them, and said, Increase ye, and be ye multiplied, and fill ye the earth, and make ye it subject; and be ye lords to the fishes of the sea, and to [the] volatiles of heaven, and to all living beasts that be moved on [the] earth.
Forsooth Adam knew Eve his wife, which conceived, and childed Cain, and said, I have gotten a man by God.
Also yet Adam knew his wife, and she childed a son, and called his name Seth, and said, God hath put [or set] to me another seed for Abel, whom Cain killed.
Fidelidade conjugal
O que Deus ajuntou não separe o homem. O casamento deve ser honrado e o leito matrimonial preservado sem impureza.
And so they be not now twain, but one flesh. Therefore man separate [or part] not that thing that God hath joined, [or knit together].
Which answered, and said to them, have ye not read, for he that made men at the beginning, made them male and female?
And he said, for this thing a man shall leave father and mother, and he shall draw [or cleave] to his wife; and they shall be twain in one flesh.
And so they be not now twain, but one flesh. Therefore man separate [or part] not that thing that God hath joined, [or knit together].
And he said, for this thing a man shall leave father and mother, and he shall draw [or cleave] to his wife; and they shall be twain in one flesh.
And so they be not now twain, but one flesh. Therefore man separate [or part] not that thing that God hath joined, [or knit together].
And it hath been said, Whoever leaveth his wife, give he to her a libel [or a little book] of forsaking.
But I say to you, that every man that leaveth his wife, except [the] cause of fornication, maketh her to do lechery, and he that weddeth the forsaken wife, doeth adultery.
Ye have heard that it was said to old men, Thou shalt not do lechery.
But I say to you, that every man that seeth a woman [for] to covet her, hath now done lechery by her in his heart.
And they said, Moses suffered to write a libel of forsaking, and to forsake.
And Jesus answered, and said to them, For the hardness of your heart Moses wrote to you this command-ment [or this precept].
But from the beginning of creature, God made them male and female;
and said, For this thing a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall draw [or cleave] to his wife,
and they shall be twain in one flesh. And so now they be not twain, but one flesh.
Therefore that thing that God hath joined together, no man separate [or part].
And if the wife leave her husband, and be wedded to another, she doeth lechery [or doeth adultery].
Wedding is in all things honourable, and bed unwemmed [or undefouled]; for God shall deem fornicators and adulterers.
Wedding is in all things honourable, and bed unwemmed [or undefouled]; for God shall deem fornicators and adulterers.
Wedding is in all things honourable, and bed unwemmed [or undefouled]; for God shall deem fornicators and adulterers.
Amor como Cristo
Maridos, amai vossas mulheres como Cristo amou a igreja. O amor conjugal reflete o evangelho em ação.
Men, love ye your wives, as Christ loved the church, and gave himself for it,
to make it holy; and cleansed it with the washing of water, in the word of life,
Men, love ye your wives, as Christ loved the church, and gave himself for it,
to make it holy; and cleansed it with the washing of water, in the word of life,
to give the church glorious to himself, that it had no wem, [or spot], nor rivelling [or wrinkle], or any such thing, but that it be holy and undefouled.
Men, love ye your wives, as Christ loved the church, and gave himself for it,
to make it holy; and cleansed it with the washing of water, in the word of life,
to give the church glorious to himself, that it had no wem, [or spot], nor rivelling [or wrinkle], or any such thing, but that it be holy and undefouled.
So and men shall love their wives, as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself;
for no man hated ever his own flesh, but nourisheth and fostereth it, as Christ doeth the church.
And we be members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
So and men shall love their wives, as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself;
So and men shall love their wives, as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself;
for no man hated ever his own flesh, but nourisheth and fostereth it, as Christ doeth the church.
And we be members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Women, be they subject to their husbands, as to the Lord,
for the man is head of the woman, as Christ is head of the church; he is Saviour of his body.
But as the church is subject to Christ, so women to their husbands in all things.
Women, be they subject to their husbands, as to the Lord,
for the man is head of the woman, as Christ is head of the church; he is Saviour of his body.
Women, be they subject to their husbands, as to the Lord,
for the man is head of the woman, as Christ is head of the church; he is Saviour of his body.
But as the church is subject to Christ, so women to their husbands in all things.
Men, love ye your wives, as Christ loved the church, and gave himself for it,
to make it holy; and cleansed it with the washing of water, in the word of life,
to give the church glorious to himself, that it had no wem, [or spot], nor rivelling [or wrinkle], or any such thing, but that it be holy and undefouled.
So and men shall love their wives, as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself;
for no man hated ever his own flesh, but nourisheth and fostereth it, as Christ doeth the church.
And we be members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
For this thing a man shall forsake his father and mother, and he shall draw [or he shall cleave] to his wife; and they shall be twain in one flesh.
This sacrament is great; yea, I say in Christ, and in the church.
Nevertheless ye all, each man love his wife as himself; and the wife dread her husband.
For this thing a man shall forsake his father and mother, and he shall draw [or he shall cleave] to his wife; and they shall be twain in one flesh.
Nevertheless ye all, each man love his wife as himself; and the wife dread her husband.
Nevertheless ye all, each man love his wife as himself; and the wife dread her husband.
And fornication, and all unclean-ness, or avarice, be not named among you, as it becometh holy men;
Submissão e respeito
Mulheres, sujeitem-se aos próprios maridos. Maridos, convivam com as esposas com conhecimento e honra.
Women, be ye subject to your husbands, as it behooveth in the Lord.
Men, love ye your wives, and do not ye be bitter to them.
And upon all these things have ye charity, that is the bond of perfectness [or of perfection].
And the peace of Christ enjoy in your hearts, in which ye be called in one body, and be ye kind.
The word of Christ dwell in you plenteously, in all wisdom; and teach and admonish yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord.
All thing, whatever thing ye do, in word or in deed, all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, doing thankings to God and to the Father by him [or doing thankings to God the Father by him].
And upon all these things have ye charity, that is the bond of perfectness [or of perfection].
Therefore slay ye your members, which be on the earth, fornication, uncleanness, lechery, evil covetousness, and avarice, which is service of maumets [or simulacra];
Also men dwell together, and by knowing [or science], give ye honour to the woman’s frailty, [or to her vessel], as to the more feeble, and as to even-heirs of grace and of life, that your prayers be not hindered.
Also men dwell together, and by knowing [or science], give ye honour to the woman’s frailty, [or to her vessel], as to the more feeble, and as to even-heirs of grace and of life, that your prayers be not hindered.
Pureza no casamento
Não adulterarás. A impureza sexual destrói alianças e famílias. Deus chama à santidade no matrimônio.
Thou shalt not do lechery.
Thou shalt not covet the house of thy neighbour, neither thou shalt desire his wife, nor his servant, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his ass, neither all things that be his.
But for fornication each man have his own wife, and each woman have her own husband.
The husband yield debt to the wife, and also the wife to the husband.
The woman hath not power of her body, but the husband; and the husband hath not power of his body, but the woman [or the wife].
The husband yield debt to the wife, and also the wife to the husband.
The woman hath not power of her body, but the husband; and the husband hath not power of his body, but the woman [or the wife].
Do not ye defraud each to other, but peradventure of consent for a time, that ye give attention to prayer; and again turn again to the same thing, lest Satan tempt you for your uncontinence.
The husband yield debt to the wife, and also the wife to the husband.
The woman hath not power of her body, but the husband; and the husband hath not power of his body, but the woman [or the wife].
Do not ye defraud each to other, but peradventure of consent for a time, that ye give attention to prayer; and again turn again to the same thing, lest Satan tempt you for your uncontinence.
But I say to them, that be not wedded, and to widows, it is good to them, if they dwell so as I.
And if they contain not them-selves, [or be not chaste], be they wedded; for it is better to be wedded, than to be burnt.
But to them that be joined in matrimony, I command, not I, but the Lord, that the wife depart not from the husband;
and that if she departeth, that she dwell unwedded, or be reconciled to her husband; and the husband forsake not the wife.
For the unfaithful husband is hallowed by the faithful woman, and the unfaithful woman is hallowed by the faithful husband. Else your children were unclean, but now they be holy.
But I will, that ye be without busyness, for he that is without wife, is busy what things be of the Lord, how he shall please God.
But he that is with a wife, is busy what things be of the world, how he shall please the wife [or his wife], and he is parted.
And a woman unwedded and [a] maiden thinketh what things be of the Lord, that she be holy in body and spirit. But she that is wedded, thinketh what things be of the world, how she shall please the husband [or her husband].
The woman is bound to the law, as long time as her husband liveth; and if her husband is dead, she is delivered from the law of the husband, be she wedded to whom she will, only in the Lord.
But of those things that ye have written to me, it is good to a man to touch not a woman.
But for fornication each man have his own wife, and each woman have her own husband.
Flee ye fornication; all sin what-ever sin a man doeth, is without the body; but he that doeth fornication, sinneth against his body.
Whether ye know not, that your members be the temple of the Holy Ghost, that is in you, whom ye have of God, and ye be not your own?
For ye be bought with great price. Glorify ye, and bear ye God in your body.
Meat to the womb, and the womb to meats; and God shall destroy both this and that. And the body not to fornication, but to the Lord, and the Lord to the body.
For God raised the Lord, and shall raise us by his virtue.
Whether ye know not, that wicked men shall not wield the kingdom of God? Do not ye err; neither lechers, neither men that serve maumets [or idols], neither adulterers, neither lechers against kind, neither they that do lechery with men,
neither thieves, neither avaricious [or covetous] men, neither men full of drunkenness, neither cursers, neither raveners, shall wield the kingdom of God.
Charity is patient, it is benign; charity envieth not, it doeth not wickedly, it is not blown [with pride],
it is not covetous, [or ambitious, or covetous of worships], it seeketh not those things that be his own [or her own], it is not stirred to wrath, it thinketh not evil,
it joyeth not on [or in] wicked-ness, but it joyeth together to [or with] truth;
it suffereth all things, it believeth all things, it hopeth all things, it sustaineth all things.
Whether Christ is parted? whether Paul was crucified for you, either ye be baptized in the name of Paul?
I do thankings to my God, that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;
lest any man say, that ye be baptized in my name.
And I baptized also the house of Stephanas, but I know not, that I baptized any other.
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel [or to evangelize]; not in wisdom of word, that the cross of Christ be not voided away.
Yet all manner of fornication is heard among you, and such fornication, which is not among heathen men, so that some man have the wife of his father.
And ye be swollen [or blown] with pride, and not more had wailing, that he that did this work, be taken away from the middle of you.
Sabedoria conjugal
Acha esposa, acha o bem. Bebe água da tua própria cisterna. A fidelidade conjugal é fonte de bênção permanente.
He that findeth a good woman, findeth a good thing; and of the Lord he shall draw up mirth. He that putteth away a good woman, putteth away a good thing; but he that holdeth an adulteress, is a fool and unwise.
He that findeth a good woman, findeth a good thing; and of the Lord he shall draw up mirth. He that putteth away a good woman, putteth away a good thing; but he that holdeth an adulteress, is a fool and unwise.
He that findeth a good woman, findeth a good thing; and of the Lord he shall draw up mirth. He that putteth away a good woman, putteth away a good thing; but he that holdeth an adulteress, is a fool and unwise.
Houses and riches be given of father and mother; but a prudent wife is given properly of the Lord.
Thy vein be blessed; and be thou glad with the woman of thy young waxing age.
An hind most dearworthy; and an hart calf most acceptable. Her teats fill thee in all time; and delight thou continually in the love of her.
Give thou not attention to the falseness of a woman; for the lips of an whore be an honeycomb dropping, and her throat is clearer than oil;
but the last things [of her]be bitter as wormwood, and her tongue is sharp as a sword carving, or cutting, on each side.
Her feet go down into death; and her steps pierce to hells [or to hell].
Those [or they] go not by the path of life; her steps be uncertain, and may not be sought out.
Now therefore, my son, hear thou me, and go thou not away from the words of my mouth.
Make far thy way from her, and nigh thou not to the doors of her house.
Give thou not thine honour to aliens, and thy years to the cruel;
Give thou not attention to the falseness of a woman; for the lips of an whore be an honeycomb dropping, and her throat is clearer than oil;
but the last things [of her]be bitter as wormwood, and her tongue is sharp as a sword carving, or cutting, on each side.
Her feet go down into death; and her steps pierce to hells [or to hell].
Those [or they] go not by the path of life; her steps be uncertain, and may not be sought out.
Make far thy way from her, and nigh thou not to the doors of her house.
Give thou not thine honour to aliens, and thy years to the cruel;
lest peradventure strangers be filled with thy strengths, and lest thy travails be in an alien’s house;
and thou bewail in the last days, when thou hast wasted thy flesh, and thy body;
and say, Why loathed I teaching, and mine heart assented not to blamings;
neither I heard the voice of men teaching me, and I bowed not down mine ear to masters?
Almost I was in all-evil, in the midst of the church, and of the synagogue.
An hind most dearworthy; and an hart calf most acceptable. Her teats fill thee in all time; and delight thou continually in the love of her.
My son, why art thou deceived of an alien woman; and art fostered in the bosom of another?
So he that entereth to the wife of his neighbour; shall not be clean, when he hath touched her.
But he that is an adulterer, shall lose his soul, for the poverty of heart, that is, wanting of reason.
But he that is an adulterer, shall lose his soul, for the poverty of heart, that is, wanting of reason.
He gathereth filth, and scandal to himself; and his shame shall not be done away.
For the fervent love and strong vengeance of the man shall not spare in the day of vengeance,
neither shall assent to the prayers of any; neither he shall take many gifts for ransom.
A diligent woman is a crown to her husband; and rot is in the bones of that woman, that doeth things worthy of confusion.
The heart of a man shall dispose his way; but it pertaineth to the Lord to dress his steps.
It is better to sit in the corner of an house without roof, than with a woman full of chiding, and in a common house.
Who shall find a strong woman? the price of her is[a] far, and from the last [or utmost] ends.
Bíblia e casamento
Deus abomina o divórcio. A aliança matrimonial é reflexo da aliança de Deus com seu povo — sagrada e eterna.
Whether one made not, and the residue of spirit is his? and what seeketh one, no but the seed of God? Therefore keep ye your spirit, and do not thou despise the wife of thy youth;
when thou hatest her, leave thou her, saith the Lord God of Israel. Forsooth wickedness shall cover the cloth of him, saith the Lord of hosts; keep ye your spirit, and do not ye despise.
Do not ye bear the yoke with unfaithful men. For what parting, [or communing], of rightwiseness with wickedness? or what fellowship of light to darknesses?
For this is the will of God, your holiness, that ye abstain you from fornication.
That each of you know how to wield his vessel in holiness, and honour;
not in passion of lust, as heathen men that know not God.
See ye, that no man yield evil for evil to any man; but evermore pursue ye that that is good, each to other, and to all men.
and lechers, to them that do lechery with men, [or and fornicators, to them that trespass with males against kind, sellers, or stealers, of men], leasing-mongers and forsworn, and if any other thing is contrary to the wholesome teaching,
Therefore it behooveth a bishop to be without reproof, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, chaste, virtuous, holding hospitality, a teacher;
Deacons be husbands of one wife; which govern well their sons and their houses.
If any man is without crime, [or great sin], an husband of one wife, and hath faithful sons, not in accusation of lechery, or not subject.
When a man hath taken late a wife, he shall not go forth to battle, neither anything of the common needs shall be enjoined to him, but he shall give attention without blame to his household, that he be glad in one year with his wife.
If a man taketh a wife, and hath her, and she findeth not grace before his eyes for some vileness, or unclean-ness, he shall write a little book of forsaking, and he shall give it in her hand, and he shall deliver her from his house.
If a man weddeth a wife, and afterward hateth her,
and seeketh occasions by which he may leave her, and he putteth against her the worst name, and saith, I have taken this wife, and I have entered to her, and I found not her a virgin;
the father and mother of her shall take her, and they shall bear with them the tokens of her virginity to the elder men of the city, that be in the gate;
and her father shall say, I gave my daughter wife to this man, and for he hateth her,
he putteth to her the worst name, that he saith, I found not thy daughter a virgin; and lo! these be the tokens of the virginity of my daughter; they shall spread forth a cloth before the elder men of the city.
Thou shalt not uncover the filth-hood of the wife of thy father, for it is the filthhood of thy father.
Thou shalt not do lechery with thy neighbour’s wife, neither thou shalt be defouled with meddling [or mingling together] of seed.
If a man doeth lechery with another man’s wife, and doeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress die they by death.
If a man sleepeth with a man, by lechery of a woman, ever either hath wrought unleaveful thing, die they by death; their blood be on them.
A priest shall not wed a wife a corrupt woman, and a foul whore, neither he shall wed her that is forsaken of the husband, for he is hallowed to his God,
He shall wed to wife a virgin;
he shall not take a widow, and a forsaken woman, and a foul woman, and whore, but a virgin of his people;
Exemplos bíblicos
O Cântico dos Cânticos celebra o amor conjugal. A Bíblia honra o casamento em toda a sua beleza e profundidade.
Set thou me as a signet on thine heart, as a signet on thine arm; for love is strong as death, envy is hard as hell; the lamps thereof be[the] lamps of fire, and of flames.
Many waters be not able to quench charity, neither floods shall oppress it. Though a man give all the chattel of his house for love, he shall despise, or reckon it, as nought.
Many waters be not able to quench charity, neither floods shall oppress it. Though a man give all the chattel of his house for love, he shall despise, or reckon it, as nought.
My love, thou art all-fair, and no wem is in thee.
Thy two teats be as two kids, twins of a capret, that be fed among lilies,
My sister spousess, thou hast wounded mine heart; thou hast wounded mine heart, in one of thine eyes, and in one hair of thy neck.
His left hand is under mine head; and his right hand shall embrace me.
Kiss he me with the kiss of his mouth. For thy loves be better than wine,
Use thou life with the wife which thou lovest, in all the days of the life of thine unstableness, that be given to thee under the sun, in all the time of thy vanity; for this is thy part in thy life and [thy] travail, by which thou travailest under the sun.
Use thou life with the wife which thou lovest, in all the days of the life of thine unstableness, that be given to thee under the sun, in all the time of thy vanity; for this is thy part in thy life and [thy] travail, by which thou travailest under the sun.
Therefore it is better, that two be together than one; for they have profit of their fellowship.
If one falleth down, he shall be underset of the tother; woe to him that is alone, for when he falleth, he hath none to raise him up.
And if twain sleep together, they shall be nourished together; how shall one be made hot?
And if any man hath [the] mastery against one, twain [or two] against-stand him; a threefold cord is broken of hard.
Juízo e restauração
O Senhor é testemunha do pacto conjugal. Casamentos quebrados podem ser restaurados pelo poder e graça de Deus.
Be ye converted, sons, turning again, saith the Lord, for I am your husband; and I shall take you, one of a city, and twain [or two] of a kindred, and I shall lead you into Zion;
The beginning of the speaking to the Lord in Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea, Go thou, take to thee a wife of fornications, and make to thee sons of fornications, for the land doing fornication shall do fornication, going away from the Lord.
Deem ye your mother, deem ye, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Do she away her fornications from her face, and her adulteries from the midst of her breasts;
The Lord God saith these things, For thy riches is shed out, and thy shame is showed in thy fornications on thy lovers, and on the idols of thine abominations, in the blood of thy sons, which thou gavest to them;
lo! I shall gather together all thy lovers, with which thou were meddled [or mingled]together, and all men which thou lovedest, with all men which thou hatedest; and I shall gather them on thee on each side, and I shall make naked thy shame before them, and they shall see all thy filthhood.
Forsooth the Lord beat Pharaoh and his house with most vengeances for Sarai, the wife of Abram.
And Pharaoh called Abram, and said to him, What is it that thou hast done to me? why showedest thou not to me that she was thy wife?
Therefore Sarai, the wife of Abram, had not engendered [to him] free children; but she had a servantess of Egypt, Hagar by name,
and Sarai said to her husband, Lo! the Lord hath closed me, that I should not bear child; enter thou [in] to my servantess, if in hap I shall take children, namely of her. And when he assented to her praying,
she took Hagar the Egyptian, her servantess, after ten years after that they began to inhabit the land of Canaan, and she gave Hagar as[a] wife to her husband.
To whom the Lord said, I shall turn again, and I shall come to thee in this time, if I live; and Sarah, thy wife, shall have a son. When this was heard, Sarah laughed behind the door of the tabernacle.
Forsooth both were old, and of great age, and woman’s terms ceased to be made to Sarah.
And she laughed, saying privily, After that I waxed eld [or old], and my lord is eld [or old], shall I give diligence [or busyness] to lust?
And he knew that sons should not be born to him; and he entered [in] to the wife of his brother, and shedded his seed into the earth, lest the free children should be born by the name of the dead brother;
and therefore the Lord smote him, for he did abominable thing.
And David comforted Bathsheba, his wife; and he entered [in] to her, and slept with her. And she engendered a son, and David called his name Solomon; and the Lord loved him.
Therefore Abijah, when his empire was comforted, took fourteen wives, and he begat two and twenty sons, and sixteen daughters.
This is the law of jealousy, if a woman boweth away from her husband, and is defouled,
and the husband is stirred with the spirit of jealousy, and bringeth her into the sight of the Lord, and the priest doeth to her by all things that be written,
Thou barren, that childest not, praise; thou that childest not, sing praising, and make joy; for why many sons be of the forsaken, more than of her that had [the] husband, saith the Lord.
I joying shall have joy in the Lord, and my soul shall make full out joying in my God. For he hath clothed me with [the] clothes of health, and he hath compassed me with [the] clothes of rightfulness [or rightwiseness], as a spouse made fair with a crown, and as a spousess adorned with her brooches.
And Anna was a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the lineage of Aser. And she had gone forth in many days, and had lived with her husband seven years from her maidenhood.
When thou art bidden to bridals [or When thou shalt be bidden to weddings], sit not at the meat in the first place; lest peradventure a worthier than thou be bidden of him,
Every man that forsaketh his wife, and weddeth another, doeth lechery [or adultery]; and he that weddeth the wife forsaken of the husband, doeth adultery.
They ate and drank, wedded wives, and were given to weddings, till into the day in which Noah entered into the ship; and the great flood came, and lost all.
And Jesus raised himself, and said to her, Woman, where be they that accused thee? no man hath con-demned thee.
She said, No man, Lord. Jesus said to her, Neither I shall condemn thee; go thou, and now afterward do not thou sin more [or do not thou do sin].
And every man that forsaketh house, [or] brethren or sisters, [or] father or mother, [or] wife or children, or fields, for my name, he shall take an hundredfold, and shall wield ever-lasting life.
and said, Master, Moses said, if any man is dead, not having a son, that his brother wed his wife, and raise seed to his brother.
For in the rising again to life, neither they shall wed, neither shall be wedded; but they be as the angels of God in heaven.
For of the heart go out evil thoughts [or For out of the heart cometh evil thoughts], manslayings, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies.
And the works of the flesh be open, which be fornication, unclean-ness, unchastity, lechery,
service of false gods [or serving of idols], witchcrafts, enmities, strivings [or strives], indignations, wraths, chidings, dissensions, sects [or heresies],
envies, manslayings, drunkennesses, unmeasurable eatings [or gluttonies], and things like to these, which I say to you before, as I have told to you before, for they that do such things, shall not have the kingdom of God.
Thy wife shall be as a plenteous vine; in the sides of thine house. Thy sons as the new springs of olive trees; in the compass of thy board.
For that woman that is under an husband, is bound to the law, while the husband liveth; but if her husband is dead, she is delivered [or is unbound] from the law of the husband.
Therefore she shall be called adulteress, if she be with another man, while the husband liveth; but if her husband is dead, she is delivered from the law of the husband, that she be not adulteress, if she be with another man.
But I have against thee a few things; for thou sufferest the woman Jezebel, which saith that she is a prophetess, to teach and deceive my servants, to do lechery, and to eat of things offered to idols.
and [they] did not penance of their manslayings, neither of their witchcrafts, neither of their fornication, neither of their thefts, were slain.
for true and just be the dooms of him, which deemed the great whore, that defouled [or corrupted] the earth in her lechery, and avenged the blood of his servants, of the hands of her.