1 Corinthians 7:9

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;

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.

that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children,

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.”

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honor,

Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

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.

This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

in whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those who fear Yahweh; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn’t change;

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.

The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you; and all those who despised you will bow themselves down at the soles of your feet. They will call you Yahweh’s City, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

“In the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king of fierce face, and understanding dark sentences, will stand up.

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

But he said to them, “Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given.

Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves;

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

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.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled,

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good,

and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

They said to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

It was given to him to give breath to it, to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause as many as wouldn’t worship the image of the beast to be killed.

and that no one would be able to buy or to sell, unless he has that mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.

For they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.”

I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously to us, because we didn’t take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them; otherwise you would now be guilty.’ ”

Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?

Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

Take away my disgrace that I dread, for your ordinances are good.

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

Take wives and father sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there, and don’t be diminished.

Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.

and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’

but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

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.

Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us, that it’s good for a man to remain as he is.

But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

A 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.

But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

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,

Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry.