Matthew 19:11

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies.

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

He said to the people, “Be ready by the third day. Don’t have sexual relations with a woman.”

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

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

All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, “Read this, please;” and he says, “I can’t, for it is sealed;”

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.

Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

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But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

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.

But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.

the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,

The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

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

Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts. Let the bridegroom go out of his room, and the bride out of her room.

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

Jesus said to them, “Have you understood all these things?” They answered him, “Yes, Lord.”

He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

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.

Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.

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.

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

We have sent together with him the brother whose praise in the Good News is known throughout all the assemblies.

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

by which, when you read, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ,

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

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

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

so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

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

always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.

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.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.

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.

Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.

Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead. There still weren’t enough for them.

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.’ ”

The priest answered David, and said, “I have no common bread, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.”

The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.

A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Holy Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there.

and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Armies, and to the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?”

The land will mourn, every family apart; the family of David’s house apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;

“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

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 the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.

He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days.”

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

He said, “For this cause I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father.”

If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

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

A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us. The Lord opened her heart to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.

So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

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.

Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,

Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise.

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

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

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

This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

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

for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine,

holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

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

Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.

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.