Matthew 19:8

For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up,

Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

“Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us, or not?”

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

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

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

“But Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’

Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”

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.

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

Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah,

Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal’s wife.

David’s two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

Return to your rest, my soul, for Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you.

Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

to whom he said, “This is the resting place. Give rest to weary,” and “This is the refreshing;” yet they would not hear.

“As for the word that you have spoken to us in Yahweh’s name, we will not listen to you.

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,

I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.

You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.

then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

House of Jacob, come, and let’s walk in the light of Yahweh.

but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. Walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’

But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.’ ”

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.

When he saw them, he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” As they went, they were cleansed.

They ate, they drank, they married, and they were given in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”

Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

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.

As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”

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

When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

Why then do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully among them, didn’t they let the people go, and they departed?

Sons were born to David in Hebron. His firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;

Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.

Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”

Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”

It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law and make it honorable.

“Keep your feet from being bare, and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers, and I will go after them.’

I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from your youth, that you didn’t obey my voice.

that Yahweh your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the things that we should do.”

They will inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.’

The children are impudent and stiff-hearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says.’

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”

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,

The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, “You are the Son of God!”

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’ ”

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

For I have given you an example, that you should also do as I have done to you.

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.

For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Lamech took two wives: the name of the first one was Adah, and the name of the second one was Zillah.

Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.

“Go out of the ship, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.

Sarai was barren. She had no child.

You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.

He said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

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

He had two wives. The name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they both became his wives.

of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon joined to these in love.

David took more wives at Jerusalem, and David became the father of more sons and daughters.

Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.

But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.

But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.

The demons begged him, saying, “If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs.”

But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.