Genesis 29:27

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

He gave each one of them changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.

When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning Yahweh’s name, she came to test him with hard questions.

He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

“Son of man, tell a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.

Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can tell me the answer within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;

The king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” He departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of clothing.

He said, “All is well. My master has sent me, saying, ‘Behold, even now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothing.’ ”

Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

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

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.

“ ‘You shall not take a wife in addition to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is still alive.

You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

He also walked in the ways of Ahab’s house, because his mother was his counselor in acting wickedly.

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.”

(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

Many sorrows come to the wicked, but loving kindness shall surround him who trusts in Yahweh.

to understand a proverb, and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.

So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

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

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them Adam.

then she tells me, “Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,”—let her be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my master’s son.’

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?”

Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.

Onan knew that the offspring wouldn’t be his; and when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother.

He turned to her by the way, and said, “Please come, let me come in to you,” for he didn’t know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?”

Five curtains shall be coupled together to one another, and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another.

He shall not profane his offspring among his people, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies him.’ ”

Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire,

For that would turn away your sons from following me, that they may serve other gods. So Yahweh’s anger would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?”

Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body, for he had many wives.

His father went down to the woman; and Samson made a feast there, for the young men used to do so.

When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hand.

Micah said to him, “Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver per year, a suit of clothing, and your food.” So the Levite went in.

In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took for himself a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.

Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today.”

David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab, and he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother come out with you, until I know what God will do for me.”

Shimei arose, saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish, to seek his slaves; and Shimei went, and brought his slaves from Gath.

Therefore the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and to your offspring forever.” He went out from his presence a leper, as white as snow.

Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they struck Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim, and all the storage cities of Naphtali.

Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel were assembled to me, because of their trespass of the captivity; and I sat confounded until the evening offering.

and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people.

“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’

Yahweh’s face is against those who do evil, to cut off their memory from the earth.

Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.

Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off their memory from the earth;

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,

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

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

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

If there is a tenth left in it, that also will in turn be consumed, as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stump remains when they are cut down; so the holy seed is its stock.”

Your offspring also would have been as the sand and the descendants of your body like its grains. His name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.”

Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.

Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’

So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.

Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.

Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!

They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they will be remembered no more. I will also cause the prophets and the spirit of impurity to pass out of the land.

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

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.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

So they took the money and did as they were told. This saying was spread abroad among the Jews, and continues until today.

They, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. He sought how he might conveniently deliver him.

for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly.”

When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit!

You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’

and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, then brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

As we were going to prayer, a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.

But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

which some profess, and thus have wandered from the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.

if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

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