1 Corinthians 7:39
Greek Text— 1 Corinthians 7:39A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.
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Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”
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.
You can’t both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.
Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.
You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn’t please Isaac, his father.
Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people didn’t say a word.
While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.
So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”
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.”
So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.
that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honor,
I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.
Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?”
Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
There, Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite man named Shua. He took her, and went in to her.
Israel said, “Swear to me,” and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself on the bed’s head.
For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.”
“Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel,” says Yahweh.
Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a fever.
For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.”
He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, “You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas” (which is by interpretation, Peter).
to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.
and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.
“ ‘You shall keep my statutes. “ ‘You shall not cross-breed different kinds of animals. “ ‘You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; “ ‘Don’t wear a garment made of two kinds of material.
Now therefore don’t give your daughters to their sons. Don’t take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’
They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.
As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.
I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.
A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.
I saw when, for this very cause, that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, had no fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.
Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.
Now Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick with a fever, and immediately they told him about her.
He rose up from the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they begged him for her.
After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days.
The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
Being let go, they came to their own company and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
For he who has died has been freed from sin.
Now I mean this, that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” and, “I follow Christ.”
I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.
(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.
But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.
Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.
Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.
But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God’s Spirit.
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
But of the other apostles I saw no one except James, the Lord’s brother.
that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.
without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,
Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,
Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob.
After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”
You shall be holy to me, for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine.
Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.
You shall fear Yahweh your God. You shall serve him. You shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.
and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you are attracted to her, and desire to take her as your wife,
When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”
They took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.
Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, who are enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god.
They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
Stretch out your hand from above, rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hands of foreigners,
Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
Ephraim, he mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.
For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship,
Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the wedding.
The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.
But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.
But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband
Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,
God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.
I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.
Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.