Marriage & Family

Ex. 20:1–17 1 And God spoke all these words, saying, 2 “I [am] YHWH your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 3 You shall have no other gods before My face. 4 You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness that [is] in the heavens above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the waters under the earth. 5 You shall not bow down to them and you shall not serve them; for I, YHWH your God, [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of fathers on sons on the third and on the fourth for those who hate Me, 6 and showing loving devotion to thousands for those who love Me and for those who keep My commandments. 7 You shall not take the name of YHWH your God in vain, for YHWH will not hold guiltless him who takes His name in vain. 8 Remember the Sabbath day to sanctify it. 9 Six days you shall labor and you shall do all your work, 10 and the seventh day [is] a Sabbath to YHWH your God; you shall not do any work—you, and your son, and your daughter, your manservant, and your maidservant, and your livestock, and your sojourner who [is] within your gates. 11 For [in] six days YHWH made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that [is] in them; and He rested on the seventh day. Therefore YHWH blessed the Sabbath day and sanctified it. 12 Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long upon the land that YHWH your God is giving to you. 13 You shall not murder. 14 You shall not commit adultery. 15 You shall not steal. 16 You shall not answer against your neighbor [as] a false witness. 17 You shall not covet the house of your neighbor; you shall not covet the wife of your neighbor, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

Deut. 5:6–21 6 “I [am] YHWH your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 7 You shall have no other gods before Me. 8 You shall not make for yourself a carved image, any likeness that [is] in the heavens above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water beneath the earth. 9 You shall not bow down to them and you shall not serve them, for I, YHWH your God, [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons and on the third and fourth of those hating Me, 10 and showing loving devotion to thousands, to those loving Me and keeping My commandments. 11 You shall not lift up the name of YHWH your God in vain, for YHWH will not hold guiltless him who lifts up His name in vain. 12 Observe the day of the Sabbath, to keep it holy, as YHWH your God has commanded you. 13 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 14 and the seventh day [is] the Sabbath to YHWH your God; you shall not do any work—you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and your ox, and your donkey, and any of your cattle, and your sojourner who [is] within your gates—that your manservant and your maidservant may rest like you. 15 And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and YHWH your God brought you out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm. Upon thus YHWH your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day. 16 Honor your father and your mother, as YHWH your God has commanded you, that your days may be long, that it may be well with you in the land that YHWH your God is giving to you. 17 You shall not murder. 18 And you shall not commit adultery. 19 And you shall not steal. 20 And you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. 21 And you shall not covet the wife of your neighbor, and you shall not covet the house of your neighbor, his field, and his manservant, and his maidservant, his ox, and his donkey, and anything that [is] unto your neighbor.”

Ex. 21:17 And the one who curses his father or his mother must surely be put to death.

Prov. 1:8 Hear, my son, the discipline of your father, and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.

4:1 Hear, [my] sons, the discipline of a father, and pay attention to know understanding.

Rom. 13:1–2 1 Let every soul be subject to the authorities being above [him]. For there is no authority except by God; but those existing are appointed by God. 2 Therefore the one setting [himself] against the authority has resisted the ordinance of God, and those having resisted will receive judgment to themselves.

Eph. 5:21–22 21 Be submitting to one another in fear of Christ: 22 wives, to [your] own husbands as to the Lord;

6:1–9 1 Children, obey your⁺ parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise, 3 “that it may be well with you and you will be long-lived upon the earth.” 4 And fathers, do not provoke to anger your⁺ children, but nourish them in the discipline and admonition of the Lord. 5 Slaves, obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in sincerity of your⁺ heart, as to Christ, 6 not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul, 7 serving with good will, as to the Lord and not to men, 8 knowing that each one, whatever good he might have done, this he will receive from the Lord, whether slave or free. 9 And masters, do the same things toward them, giving up threatening, knowing that also their Master and yours⁺ is in the heavens, and there is no partiality with Him.

Col. 3:18–4:1 18 Wives, submit yourselves to [your] husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. 1 Masters, provide to [your] slaves that which [is] right and that which [is] equal, knowing that you⁺ also have a Master in heaven.

Prov. 20:20 One belittling his father or his mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the pupil of darkness.

23:22 Listen to your father, this one begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

1 Peter 2:18 Servants, be subject in all fear to [your] masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the crooked.

Matt. 22:21 They say to Him, “Caesar’s.” Then He says to them, “Therefore give back the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God.”

Rom. 13:1–8 1 Let every soul be subject to the authorities being above [him]. For there is no authority except by God; but those existing are appointed by God. 2 Therefore the one setting [himself] against the authority has resisted the ordinance of God, and those having resisted will receive judgment to themselves. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Now do you want not to fear the authority? Do that which [is] good, and you will have praise from him. 4 For he is God’s servant to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is God’s servant, an avenger for wrath to the one practicing evil. 5 Therefore [it is] necessary to be subject, not only because of wrath, but also because of the conscience. 6 For because of this, you⁺ also pay taxes; for they are ministers of God, attending continually to this very thing. 7 Pay to all their dues: tax to whom tax, revenue to whom revenue, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor. 8 Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another; for the one loving the other has fulfilled the law.

Eph. 6:1–9 1 Children, obey your⁺ parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise, 3 “that it may be well with you and you will be long-lived upon the earth.” 4 And fathers, do not provoke to anger your⁺ children, but nourish them in the discipline and admonition of the Lord. 5 Slaves, obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in sincerity of your⁺ heart, as to Christ, 6 not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul, 7 serving with good will, as to the Lord and not to men, 8 knowing that each one, whatever good he might have done, this he will receive from the Lord, whether slave or free. 9 And masters, do the same things toward them, giving up threatening, knowing that also their Master and yours⁺ is in the heavens, and there is no partiality with Him.

Col. 3:18–21 18 Wives, submit yourselves to [your] husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. 19 Husbands, love [your] wives and do not be bitter toward them. 20 Children, obey [your] parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord. 21 Fathers, do not provoke your⁺ children, so that they may not become discouraged.

Lev. 18:30 And you⁺ shall keep My charge, to not do from the statutes of the abominations that have been done before your⁺ faces, and you⁺ shall not defile yourselves by them. I [am] YHWH your⁺ God.”

Eph. 5:3–5 3 But let sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness not even be named among you⁺, just as is proper to saints, 4 and shamefulness, and foolish talk, or crude joking, which are not fitting, but rather thanksgiving. 5 For this you⁺ know, realizing that every sexually immoral person, or impure person, or covetous person (who is an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

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1 Cor. 7:1–9 1 Now concerning the [things] of which you⁺ wrote: [It is] good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 But because of the sexual immorality, let each man have his [own] wife, and let each woman have [her] own husband. 3 Let the husband render the duty to the wife, and likewise also the wife to the husband. 4 The wife does not have authority over [her] own body, but the husband; and likewise also, the husband does not have authority over [his] own body, but the wife. 5 Do not deprive one another, except by mutual agreement for a time, so that you⁺ might be at leisure for prayer, and may be together the same again, so that Satan may not tempt you⁺ through your⁺ lack of self-control. 6 Now I say this by way of concession, not by way of command. 7 Yet I wish all men to be even like myself. But each has his own gift from God; indeed the one thus, but the one thus. 8 Now I say to the unmarried and to the widows: [It is] good for them if they should remain as even I [am]. 9 But if they do not have self-control, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn.

1 Thess. 4:3–8 3 For this is the will of God—your⁺ sanctification: [for] you⁺ to abstain from sexual immorality; 4 [for] each of you⁺ to know [how] to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in the passion of lust just as also the Gentiles, those not knowing God; 6 not to go beyond and to take advantage of his brother in the matter, because the Lord [is] avenging concerning all these things, just as also we said before to you⁺ and earnestly testified. 7 For God did not call us to impurity, but in sanctification. 8 So then, the one setting [this] aside does not set aside man but God, the One also giving His Holy Spirit to you⁺.

Heb. 13:4 [Let] marriage [be] honored in all, and the marriage bed undefiled; for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Gen. 2:24 Upon thus a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Matt. 19:4–6 4 And answering, He said, “Did you⁺ not read that the One having created from the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ 5 and He said, ‘On account of this a man will leave the father and the mother and be joined with his wife, and the two will be for one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God yoked together, let man not separate.”

Rom. 7:3 So then, of the husband being alive, if she becomes unto another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, [so as] not for her to be an adulteress, having become unto another man.

Prov. 2:17 the one having forsaken the guide of her youth, and she has forgotten the covenant of her God.

Gen. 2:18 And YHWH God said, “[It is] not good [for] the man to be alone; I will make for him a helper as his counterpart.”

Eph. 5:28 So also husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. The one loving his own wife loves himself.

1 Peter 3:7 Husbands [do] likewise, dwelling with [them] according to knowledge, as with a weaker vessel, with the female, rendering honor as co-heirs also of the grace of life, in order for your⁺ prayers not to be hindered.

Gen. 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it. And rule over the fish of the sea and over the bird of the heavens and over every living thing that is crawling upon the earth.”

Gen. 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

Mal. 2:15 And did He not make [them] one, and a remnant of the Spirit unto him? And what [is] the one? He was seeking seed of God. Therefore keep guard over your⁺ spirit, and do not deal treacherously with the wife of your youth.

1 Cor. 7:2, 9 2 But because of the sexual immorality, let each man have his [own] wife, and let each woman have [her] own husband. 9 But if they do not have self-control, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn.

Heb. 13:4 [Let] marriage [be] honored in all, and the marriage bed undefiled; for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

1 Tim. 4:3 forbidding to marry, [requiring] to abstain from foods that God created for reception with thanksgiving by the faithful and [by] [those] knowing the truth.

1 Cor. 7:36–38 36 But if anyone supposes [himself] to be acting unbecomingly to his virgin, if she is beyond youth, and it ought to be so, let him do what he wills; he does not sin; let them marry. 37 But he who has stood steadfast in his heart, not having necessity but having authority over [his] own will, and has judged this in [his] own heart, to keep his own virgin, he will do well. 38 So then also, the one marrying [his] own virgin does well, and the one not marrying will do better.

Gen. 24:57–58 57 And they said, “Let us call for the young woman and let us ask at her mouth.” 58 And they called for Rebekah and said to her, “Will you go with this man?” And she said, “I will go.”

1 Cor. 7:39 A wife has been bound for as long a time [as] her husband may live; but if the husband shall have died, she is free to be married to whom she wants, only in the Lord.

Gen. 34:14 and they said to them, “We are not able to do this thing, to give our sister to a man who has a foreskin, for that [is] a reproach to us.

Ex. 34:16 and you take from his daughters for your sons, and his daughters play the prostitute with their gods, and they make your sons play the prostitute with their gods.

2 Cor. 6:14 Do not become unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what partnership [have] righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship [has] light with darkness?

Deut. 7:3–4 3 And you shall not join in marriage with them; your daughter you shall not give to their son, and their daughter you shall not take for your son. 4 For they will turn away your sons from following Me, and they will serve other gods; and the anger of YHWH will be kindled against you⁺, and He will destroy you swiftly.

1 Kings 11:4 And it was, at the time of the old age of Solomon, that his wives stretched his heart after other gods, and his heart was not loyal to YHWH his God like the heart of David his father.

Neh. 13:25–27 25 And I contended with them and cursed them and struck [some] men from them and pulled out their hair. And I made them swear by God, “You⁺ shall Not give your⁺ daughters to their sons or take from their daughters for your⁺ sons or for yourselves. 26 By these [things] did not Solomon king of Israel sin? And among the many nations there was not a king like him, and he was beloved to his God, and God gave him as king over all Israel; yet even him, the foreign women caused to sin. 27 And to you⁺ shall we listen to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God by settling [with] foreign women?”

Mal. 2:11–12 11 Judah has acted treacherously, and an abomination has been done in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the sanctuary of YHWH, which He loves, and he has married the daughter of a foreign god. 12 May YHWH cut off the man who does this, the one being awake and the one answering from the tents of Jacob, and the one drawing near [with] an offering to YHWH of Hosts.

Lev. 18:6–17, 24–30 6 Any man shall not draw near to any close relative of his flesh to uncover nakedness. I [am] YHWH. 7 The nakedness of your father and the nakedness of your mother you shall not uncover. She [is] your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness. 8 The nakedness of the wife of your father you shall not uncover; it [is] the nakedness of your father. 9 The nakedness of your sister the daughter of your father or the daughter of your mother born [at] home or born outside [it], you shall not uncover their nakedness. 10 The nakedness of the daughter of your son or of the daughter of your daughter—you shall not uncover their nakedness; for they [are] your own nakedness. 11 The nakedness of the daughter of the wife of your father, begotten of your father—she [is] your sister—you shall not uncover her nakedness. 12 The nakedness of the sister of your father you shall not uncover; she [is] a close relative of your father. 13 The nakedness of the sister of your mother you shall not uncover, for she [is] a close relative of your mother. 14 The nakedness of the brother of your father you shall not uncover. To his wife you shall not draw near; she [is] your aunt. 15 The nakedness of your daughter-in-law you shall not uncover; she [is] the wife of your son. You shall not uncover her nakedness. 16 The nakedness of the wife of your brother you shall not uncover; it [is] the nakedness of your brother. 17 The nakedness of a woman and her daughter you shall not uncover—the daughter of her son and the daughter of her daughter you shall not take to uncover her nakedness. They [are] close relatives; it [is] wickedness. 24 Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for by all these the nations have defiled themselves, which I [am] sending away from before your⁺ faces. 25 And the land is defiled; and I visit the punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land vomits out those dwelling in it. 26 And you⁺ shall keep My statutes and My judgments, and you⁺ shall not do from all of these abominations, the native and the sojourner who is sojourning in your⁺ midst— 27 for the men of the land who [were] before your⁺ faces have done all these abominations, and the land was defiled— 28 And the land will not vomit you⁺ out when you⁺ defile it, as it vomited out the nation that [was] before your⁺ faces. 29 For anyone who does from all these abominations—then the soul who do [them]—shall be cut off from among their people. 30 And you⁺ shall keep My charge, to not do from the statutes of the abominations that have been done before your⁺ faces, and you⁺ shall not defile yourselves by them. I [am] YHWH your⁺ God.”

Lev. 20:19 And the nakedness of the sister of your mother or the sister of your father you shall not uncover, because he would uncover his close relative. They shall bear their guilt.

1 Cor. 5:1 Sexual immorality is actually heard [of] among you⁺, and sexual immorality such as [is] not even among the nations, so as for one to have the wife of the father.

Amos 2:7 They pant after the dust of the earth on the heads of the poor, out of their way they stretch aside the humble, and a man and his father go into the [same] girl, in order to defile the name of My holiness.

Mark 6:18 For John was saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have the wife of your brother.”

Lev. 18:24–28 24 Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for by all these the nations have defiled themselves, which I [am] sending away from before your⁺ faces. 25 And the land is defiled; and I visit the punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land vomits out those dwelling in it. 26 And you⁺ shall keep My statutes and My judgments, and you⁺ shall not do from all of these abominations, the native and the sojourner who is sojourning in your⁺ midst— 27 for the men of the land who [were] before your⁺ faces have done all these abominations, and the land was defiled— 28 And the land will not vomit you⁺ out when you⁺ defile it, as it vomited out the nation that [was] before your⁺ faces.

Matt. 1:18–20 18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was thus: His mother Mary, having been betrothed to Joseph, before their coming together was found having in womb from the Holy Spirit. 19 And Joseph her husband, being righteous and not willing to make an example of her, resolved to send her away secretly. 20 But [on] his having pondered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph son of David, you should not be afraid to receive Mary [as] your wife, for that having been begotten in her is from the Holy Spirit.

Deut. 22:23–24 23 If there is a young woman, a virgin, betrothed to a husband, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her, 24 then you⁺ shall bring out the two of them to the gate of that city, and you⁺ shall stone them with stones to death—the young woman on account of the matter, because she did not cry out in the city, and the man upon this thing, because he humbled the wife of his neighbor. And you shall put away the evil from among you.

Matt. 5:31–32 31 And it was said, ‘Whoever may send away his wife, let him give to her a certificate of divorce.’ 32 But I say to you⁺ that everyone sending away his wife, except [for] the reason of sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery. And whoever shall marry her [who] has been sent away, he commits adultery.

Matt. 19:9 And I say to you⁺ that whoever shall send away his wife, except for sexual immorality, and shall marry another, he commits adultery.”

Rom. 7:2–3 2 For the married woman is bound by law to the living husband; but if the husband should die, she is released from the law of the husband. 3 So then, of the husband being alive, if she becomes unto another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, [so as] not for her to be an adulteress, having become unto another man.

Matt. 19:8–9 8 He says to them, “Moses, for your⁺ hardness of heart, allowed you⁺ to divorce your⁺ wives; but it has not been this way from the beginning. 9 And I say to you⁺ that whoever shall send away his wife, except for sexual immorality, and shall marry another, he commits adultery.”

1 Cor. 7:15 But if the unbeliever separates himself, let him separate himself. The brother or the sister is not bound in such [cases]. But God has called you⁺ in peace.

Matt. 19:6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God yoked together, let man not separate.”

Deut. 24:1–4 1 When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it comes to pass that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found in her some uncleanness, and he writes to her a certificate of divorce and puts [it] into her hand and sends her out of his house, 2 and she has departed from his house and goes and becomes to another man, 3 and the latter husband detests her and writes her a certificate of divorce, and puts [it] in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her as his wife, 4 [then] her former husband who divorced her must not take her back to be wife to him after that she has been defiled; for that [is] an abomination before the face of YHWH, and you shall not bring sin upon the land that YHWH your God is giving to you [as] an inheritance.

Gen. 2:8, 15–16 8 And YHWH God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and He put there the man whom He had formed. 15 And YHWH God took the man and He caused him to rest in the garden of Eden, to work it and to keep it. 16 And YHWH God placed a command upon the man, saying, “From every tree of the garden you may surely eat.

Gen. 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it. And rule over the fish of the sea and over the bird of the heavens and over every living thing that is crawling upon the earth.”

Gen. 2:18 And YHWH God said, “[It is] not good [for] the man to be alone; I will make for him a helper as his counterpart.”

Matt. 19:3–9 3 And Pharisees came to Him, testing Him and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to send away his wife for any cause?” 4 And answering, He said, “Did you⁺ not read that the One having created from the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ 5 and He said, ‘On account of this a man will leave the father and the mother and be joined with his wife, and the two will be for one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God yoked together, let man not separate.” 7 They say to Him, “Why then did Moses command to give [her] a roll of divorce and to send her away?” 8 He says to them, “Moses, for your⁺ hardness of heart, allowed you⁺ to divorce your⁺ wives; but it has not been this way from the beginning. 9 And I say to you⁺ that whoever shall send away his wife, except for sexual immorality, and shall marry another, he commits adultery.”

Eph. 5:31 “Because of this, a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will be into one flesh.”

Gen. 1:26–29 26 And God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the bird of the heavens, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every crawling thing that crawls upon the earth.” 27 And God created the man in His image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it. And rule over the fish of the sea and over the bird of the heavens and over every living thing that is crawling upon the earth.” 29 And God said, “Behold, I have given to you⁺ every plant bearing seed which [is] on the face of all the earth, and every tree that [has] in [it] the fruit of a tree bearing seed—it shall be for food to you⁺—

Gen. 3:8 And they heard the voice of YHWH God walking about in the garden in the breeze of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the face of YHWH God in the midst of the trees of the garden.

Gen. 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and He sanctified it, because on it He ceased from all His work that God had created for making.

Ex. 20:11 For [in] six days YHWH made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that [is] in them; and He rested on the seventh day. Therefore YHWH blessed the Sabbath day and sanctified it.

Gen. 2:16–17 16 And YHWH God placed a command upon the man, saying, “From every tree of the garden you may surely eat. 17 And from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, from it you shall not eat. For in the day of your eating from it, you shall surely die!”

Gal. 3:12 But the law is not out of faith; rather, “The one having done these things will live in them.”

Rom. 10:5 For Moses writes [of] the righteousness that [is] of the law, that, “The man having done these things will live in them.”

Gen. 2:9 And YHWH God made sprout from the ground every tree [that] is pleasing to the sight and good for food, and the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Gen. 3:22–24 22 And YHWH God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, in knowing good and evil. And now, lest he stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever:” 23 And YHWH God sent him out of the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 And He drove out the man, and He caused to dwell at the east of the garden of Eden the cherubim and the flame of the sword that turns itself to guard the way to the tree of life.

Gen. 2:17 And from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, from it you shall not eat. For in the day of your eating from it, you shall surely die!”

James 2:10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, but shall stumble in one [part], he has become guilty of all.

Prov. 23:22, 25 22 Listen to your father, this one begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old. 25 Let your father and your mother be glad, and let she who bore you rejoice.

Eph. 6:1–2 1 Children, obey your⁺ parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise,

1 Tim. 5:1–2 1 Do not rebuke an older [man], but exhort [him] as a father; younger [men] as brothers; 2 older [women] as mothers; younger [women] as sisters, in all purity.

Gen. 4:20–21 20 And Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of those dwelling in tents and [having] livestock. 21 And the name of his brother [was] Jubal; he was the father of all who play the harp and flute.

Gen. 45:8 And now, you⁺ have not sent me here, but God. And He has made me for a father to Pharaoh, and for a lord of all his house, and ruler in all the land of Egypt.

2 Kings 5:13 And his servants came near and spoke to him, and said, “My father, [if] something great the prophet had spoken to you, would you not have done [it]? Then how much more when he says to you, ‘Wash and be clean’?”

2 Kings 2:12 And Elisha saw [it], and he cried out, “My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen,” and he saw him no more. And he took hold of his own clothes and tore them into two pieces.

Gal. 4:19 My children, of whom I travail again until that Christ shall have been formed in you⁺,

2 Kings 13:14 And Elisha had become sick with the illness from which He would die, and Joash the king of Israel came down to him and wept over his face and said, “My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen.”

Isa. 49:23 And kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers; facedown to the earth they will bow low to you, and they will lick up the dust of your feet. And you will know that I [am] YHWH; those waiting for Me will not be ashamed.”

Eph. 6:4 And fathers, do not provoke to anger your⁺ children, but nourish them in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

2 Cor. 12:14 Behold, this third time I am ready to come to you⁺, and I will not be a burden. For I do not seek what [is] yours⁺, but you⁺. For the children ought not to treasure up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

1 Thess. 2:7–8, 11 7 But we were gentle in your⁺ midst, as a nursing mother should cherish her own children. 8 So yearning over you⁺, we were well pleased to have imparted to you⁺ not only the gospel of God, but also our own lives, because you⁺ have become beloved to us. 11 just as you⁺ know how, each one of you⁺, as a father his own children,

Num. 11:11–12 11 And Moses said to YHWH, “Why have You afflicted Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your eyes, that You have laid the burden of all this people on me? 12 Did I conceive all this people? Or did I beget them, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a guardian carries a nursing child,’ to the land that You swore to their fathers?

1 Cor. 4:14–16 14 I do not write these things shaming you⁺, but admonishing [you] as my beloved children. 15 For although you⁺ may have ten thousand guardians in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you⁺ through the gospel. 16 Therefore I exhort you⁺, become imitators of me.

2 Kings 5:13 And his servants came near and spoke to him, and said, “My father, [if] something great the prophet had spoken to you, would you not have done [it]? Then how much more when he says to you, ‘Wash and be clean’?”

1 Thess. 4:4–5 4 [for] each of you⁺ to know [how] to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in the passion of lust just as also the Gentiles, those not knowing God;

Job 31:1 “I have made A covenant with my eyes; and how could I gaze upon a virgin?

1 Cor. 7:34 and is divided. And the unmarried woman and virgin is concerned for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit; but the one being married is concerned for the things of the world, how she should please the husband.

Eph. 4:29 Do not let any rotten word go forth out of your⁺ mouth, but if any [is] good for edification of the need, so that it may give grace to those hearing.

Col. 4:6 Let your⁺ word [be] always in grace, having been seasoned with salt, to know how it is necessary for you⁺ to answer each one.

1 Peter 3:2 having witnessed your⁺ respectful, pure conduct,

1 Cor. 7:2–5, 34–36 2 But because of the sexual immorality, let each man have his [own] wife, and let each woman have [her] own husband. 3 Let the husband render the duty to the wife, and likewise also the wife to the husband. 4 The wife does not have authority over [her] own body, but the husband; and likewise also, the husband does not have authority over [his] own body, but the wife. 5 Do not deprive one another, except by mutual agreement for a time, so that you⁺ might be at leisure for prayer, and may be together the same again, so that Satan may not tempt you⁺ through your⁺ lack of self-control. 34 and is divided. And the unmarried woman and virgin is concerned for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit; but the one being married is concerned for the things of the world, how she should please the husband. 35 Now I say this for your⁺ own profit, not so that I might place upon you⁺ a restraint, but for what [is] seemly and devoted to the Lord, without distraction. 36 But if anyone supposes [himself] to be acting unbecomingly to his virgin, if she is beyond youth, and it ought to be so, let him do what he wills; he does not sin; let them marry.

Matt. 5:28 But I say to you⁺ that everyone looking at a woman in order to desire her already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Job 31:1 “I have made A covenant with my eyes; and how could I gaze upon a virgin?

Acts 24:24–25 24 Then after some days Felix, having arrived with [his] own wife Drusilla, being a Jewess, sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus. 25 And [in] his reasoning concerning righteousness and self-control and the coming judgment, Felix, having become frightened, answered, “Be going for the present, and having found opportunity, I will call for you,”

Prov. 2:16–20 16 It will deliver you from a strange woman, from a foreign woman having made smooth her words, 17 the one having forsaken the guide of her youth, and she has forgotten the covenant of her God. 18 For her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the Rephaim. 19 Of all those coming to her, none will return, nor will they reach the paths of life. 20 So you must walk in the way of the good ones, and guard the paths of the righteous ones.

1 Tim. 2:9 Likewise also women [are] to adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and sound-mindedness, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing,

1 Cor. 7:2, 9 2 But because of the sexual immorality, let each man have his [own] wife, and let each woman have [her] own husband. 9 But if they do not have self-control, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn.

Prov. 5:19–20 19 A loving doe and a graceful deer, let her breasts satisfy you at all times—may you wander in her love continually! 20 So why do you wander, my son, with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a foreign woman?

1 Peter 3:7 Husbands [do] likewise, dwelling with [them] according to knowledge, as with a weaker vessel, with the female, rendering honor as co-heirs also of the grace of life, in order for your⁺ prayers not to be hindered.

1 Cor. 7:5 Do not deprive one another, except by mutual agreement for a time, so that you⁺ might be at leisure for prayer, and may be together the same again, so that Satan may not tempt you⁺ through your⁺ lack of self-control.

Prov. 31:11, 27–28 11 The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he is not lacking [in] spoil. 27 She watches the goings of her house, and the bread of idleness she does not eat. 28 Her children rise up and call her blessed, and her husband he praises her:

Prov. 5:8 Keep your path far away from her, and do not go near to the opening of her house,

Gen. 39:8–10 8 And he refused, and said to the wife of his lord, “Behold, my lord has not known with me what [is] in the house, and all that he had he has put in my hand. 9 [There is] no one greater in this house than I, and he has not withheld from me anything except you, because you [are] his wife. And how can I do this great evil and sin against God?” 10 And it came to pass, as she spoke to Joseph day by day, that he did not listen to her, to lie beside her, to be with her.

Prov. 5:7 And now, sons, listen to me, and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth.

Prov. 4:23, 27 23 With all diligence, guard your heart, for from it [are] the outgoings of life. 27 Do not bend away to the right or the left; turn aside your foot from evil.

Heb. 13:4 [Let] marriage [be] honored in all, and the marriage bed undefiled; for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Eph. 5:5 For this you⁺ know, realizing that every sexually immoral person, or impure person, or covetous person (who is an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Gal. 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,

2 Sam. 13:14 And he would not listen to her voice, and he was stronger than she, and he forced her and lay with her.

1 Cor. 5:1 Sexual immorality is actually heard [of] among you⁺, and sexual immorality such as [is] not even among the nations, so as for one to have the wife of the father.

Mark 6:18 For John was saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have the wife of your brother.”

Rom. 1:24, 26–27 24 Therefore God gave them up in the sinful desires of their hearts to uncleanness to dishonor their bodies among themselves, 26 Because of this, God gave up them to passions of dishonor. For even their females changed the natural use into that contrary to nature. 27 And likewise also the males, having left the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust toward one another, males with males, working out shame and receiving back in themselves the recompense that was fitting of their error.

Lev. 20:15–16 15 And a man who commits his copulation with an animal, he must surely be put to death, and the animal you⁺ shall kill. 16 And a woman, if she approaches unto any animal and mates with it, then you shall kill the woman and the animal. They must surely be put to death; their blood [is] on them.

Matt. 5:28 But I say to you⁺ that everyone looking at a woman in order to desire her already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Matt. 15:19 For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immorality, thefts, false testimonies, slanders.

Col. 3:5 Put to death, therefore, the members that [are] upon the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry,

Eph. 5:3–4 3 But let sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness not even be named among you⁺, just as is proper to saints, 4 and shamefulness, and foolish talk, or crude joking, which are not fitting, but rather thanksgiving.

Prov. 7:5, 21–22 5 to guard you from the strange woman, from a foreign woman [who] has made smooth her words. 21 She turns him aside with the abundance of her speech; with the smoothness of her lips she compels him. 22 Going after her suddenly, he goes in like an ox to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap,

Isa. 3:16 And says YHWH: “Because that the daughters of Zion are haughty, and they walk with outstretched neck and wanton eyes, walking and skipping [as] they go, and with their feet jingling,

2 Peter 2:14 having eyes full of adultery, and unceasing from sin; enticing unstable souls; having a heart having been trained in covetousness—children of a curse!

Prov. 7:10, 13 10 And behold, a woman to meet him, [in] the garment of a prostitute and guarded of heart. 13 And she laid hold on him and kissed him; she has hardened her face and said to him:

1 Tim. 4:3 forbidding to marry, [requiring] to abstain from foods that God created for reception with thanksgiving by the faithful and [by] [those] knowing the truth.

Mark 6:18 For John was saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have the wife of your brother.”

Mal. 2:11–12 11 Judah has acted treacherously, and an abomination has been done in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the sanctuary of YHWH, which He loves, and he has married the daughter of a foreign god. 12 May YHWH cut off the man who does this, the one being awake and the one answering from the tents of Jacob, and the one drawing near [with] an offering to YHWH of Hosts.

Lev. 18:1–21 1 And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: I [am] YHWH your⁺ God. 3 You⁺ shall not do according to the work of the land of Egypt in which you⁺ dwelt, and according to the work of the land of Canaan where I am bringing you⁺, you⁺ shall not do, and in their statutes you⁺ shall not walk. 4 You⁺ shall do My judgments, and you⁺ shall keep My statutes, to walk in them. I [am] YHWH your⁺ God. 5 And you⁺ shall keep My statutes and My judgments, which the man shall do them, and he shall live by them. I [am] YHWH. 6 Any man shall not draw near to any close relative of his flesh to uncover nakedness. I [am] YHWH. 7 The nakedness of your father and the nakedness of your mother you shall not uncover. She [is] your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness. 8 The nakedness of the wife of your father you shall not uncover; it [is] the nakedness of your father. 9 The nakedness of your sister the daughter of your father or the daughter of your mother born [at] home or born outside [it], you shall not uncover their nakedness. 10 The nakedness of the daughter of your son or of the daughter of your daughter—you shall not uncover their nakedness; for they [are] your own nakedness. 11 The nakedness of the daughter of the wife of your father, begotten of your father—she [is] your sister—you shall not uncover her nakedness. 12 The nakedness of the sister of your father you shall not uncover; she [is] a close relative of your father. 13 The nakedness of the sister of your mother you shall not uncover, for she [is] a close relative of your mother. 14 The nakedness of the brother of your father you shall not uncover. To his wife you shall not draw near; she [is] your aunt. 15 The nakedness of your daughter-in-law you shall not uncover; she [is] the wife of your son. You shall not uncover her nakedness. 16 The nakedness of the wife of your brother you shall not uncover; it [is] the nakedness of your brother. 17 The nakedness of a woman and her daughter you shall not uncover—the daughter of her son and the daughter of her daughter you shall not take to uncover her nakedness. They [are] close relatives; it [is] wickedness. 18 And a woman to her sister you shall not take, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness beside her in her life. 19 And to a woman in the menstruation of her uncleanness you shall not draw near to uncover her nakedness. 20 And to the wife of your neighbor you shall not give your lying to seed to defile yourself with her. 21 And from your seed you shall not give to pass over to Molech, and you shall not profane the name of your God. I [am] YHWH.

1 Kings 15:12 And he banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land, and he removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

2 Kings 23:7 And he tore down the houses of the male shrine prostitutes that [were] in the house of YHWH, where the women had woven houses for the Asherah.

Lev. 19:29 You shall not profane your daughter by making her practice prostitution, and the land will not practice prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.

Jer. 5:7 “How can I grant forgiveness to you for this? Your sons have forsaken Me and have sworn by those not gods. And I satisfied them, and they committed adultery, and [in] the houses of a harlot they gather themselves together.

Deut. 23:17–18 17 There shall not be a prostitute among the daughters of Israel, nor shall there be a shrine prostitute from the sons of Israel. 18 You shall not bring the wage of a prostitute or the price of a dog into the house of YHWH your God for any vowed offering; for both of them [are] indeed an abomination to YHWH your God.

Prov. 7:24–27 24 And now, sons, listen to me, and attend to the words of my mouth. 25 Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways, do not stray into her paths. 26 For many wounded ones she has made fall; and numerous [are] all her slain ones. 27 Her house [is] the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.

Matt. 19:10–11 10 His disciples say to Him, “If this is the case of the man with the wife, it is better not to marry.” 11 And He said to them, “Not all receive this word, but [those] to whom it has been given.

1 Cor. 7:7–9 7 Yet I wish all men to be even like myself. But each has his own gift from God; indeed the one thus, but the one thus. 8 Now I say to the unmarried and to the widows: [It is] good for them if they should remain as even I [am]. 9 But if they do not have self-control, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn.

Gen. 38:26 And Judah recognized [them] and said, “She is more righteous than I, for upon thus I did not give her to Shelah my son.” And he did not continue to know her anymore.

Mal. 2:14–15 14 And you⁺ say, “For what?” Because that YHWH is a witness between you and between the wife of your youth, with whom you have dealt treacherously, and she [is] your companion and the wife of your covenant. 15 And did He not make [them] one, and a remnant of the Spirit unto him? And what [is] the one? He was seeking seed of God. Therefore keep guard over your⁺ spirit, and do not deal treacherously with the wife of your youth.

Matt. 19:5 and He said, ‘On account of this a man will leave the father and the mother and be joined with his wife, and the two will be for one flesh’?

Mal. 2:16 “For He hates sending away,” says YHWH the God of Israel, “And he [who] has covered violence with his garment.” Says YHWH of Hosts. You⁺ must keep guard over your⁺ spirit and not act treacherously.

Matt. 5:32 But I say to you⁺ that everyone sending away his wife, except [for] the reason of sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery. And whoever shall marry her [who] has been sent away, he commits adultery.

Matt. 19:8–9 8 He says to them, “Moses, for your⁺ hardness of heart, allowed you⁺ to divorce your⁺ wives; but it has not been this way from the beginning. 9 And I say to you⁺ that whoever shall send away his wife, except for sexual immorality, and shall marry another, he commits adultery.”

1 Cor. 7:12–13 12 Now to the rest I say (I, not the Lord): If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she consents to dwell with him, let him not send her away. 13 And if any woman has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to dwell with her, let her not send away the husband.

Ezek. 16:49 Behold, this was the guilt of Sodom your sister: Pride, fullness of bread, and the ease of idleness was unto her and unto her daughters, and the hand of the poor and needy she did not strengthen.

Prov. 23:30–33 30 To those lingering over the wine, to those going in search of mixed drink! 31 Do not look [at] the wine when it is red, when it gives forth its eye in the cup—it goes down with smoothness! 32 Its end [is] like a serpent—it bites, and like a viper it stings. 33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart will speak perverse things.

Gen. 39:19 And it came to pass when his lord heard the words of his wife that she spoke to him, saying, “According to these words your servant did to me,” that his anger burned.

Prov. 5:8 Keep your path far away from her, and do not go near to the opening of her house,

Eph. 5:4 and shamefulness, and foolish talk, or crude joking, which are not fitting, but rather thanksgiving.

Rom. 13:13 Let us walk properly as in daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy.

1 Peter 4:3 For the time past [is] sufficient to have carried out the intent of the Gentiles, having walked in debaucheries, lusts, drunkenness, orgies, carousings, and unlawful idolatries.

Ezek. 23:14–16 14 and she had added to her prostitutions, and she looked at men portrayed on the wall, images of Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion, 15 girded with belts around their loins, turbans flowing on their heads, [with] the appearance of officers all of them, in the likeness of the sons of Babylon, Chaldea the land of their origin. 16 And she lusted for them at the seeing of her eyes, and she sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

Isa. 3:16 And says YHWH: “Because that the daughters of Zion are haughty, and they walk with outstretched neck and wanton eyes, walking and skipping [as] they go, and with their feet jingling,

23:15–17 15 And it will come to pass in that day, [that] Tyre will be forgotten seventy years—as the days of one king. At the end of seventy years, it will come to pass to Tyre as the song of the harlot: 16 “Take a harp, go about the city, O forgotten harlot; make sweet melody, sing many a song, so that you may be remembered.” 17 And it will come to pass at the end of seventy years, [that] YHWH will visit Tyre, and she will return to her hire and commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.

Mark 6:22 and the daughter of Herodias herself, having entered and having danced, pleased Herod and those reclining with [him]. And the king said to the girl, “Ask me whatever you wish, and I will give [it] to you.”

2 Kings 9:30 And Jehu had come to Jezreel, and Jezebel heard and put her eyes in paint and adorned her head, and she looked down through the window.

Jer. 4:30 And you, O devastated one, what are you doing, that you clothe yourself with crimson, that you adorn with ornaments of gold, that you tear open your eyes with paint? In vain you beautify yourself; [for] you have rejected the ones lusting; they seek your life!

Ezek. 23:40 and also that they sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger [was] sent, and behold—they came, those for whom you washed yourself [and] painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments.

1 Cor. 7:9 But if they do not have self-control, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn.

Gen. 2:24 Upon thus a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Matt. 19:5–6 5 and He said, ‘On account of this a man will leave the father and the mother and be joined with his wife, and the two will be for one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God yoked together, let man not separate.”

Heb. 13:4 [Let] marriage [be] honored in all, and the marriage bed undefiled; for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

1 Cor. 7:28 But if also you shall have married, you did not sin; and if the virgin shall have married, she did not sin. But such will have tribulation in the flesh, and I am sparing you⁺.

1 Tim. 5:8 But if anyone does not provide for [his] own, and especially [his] household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

1 Tim. 4:1 But the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and teachings of demons,

Gen. 2:24 Upon thus a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Mal. 2:15 And did He not make [them] one, and a remnant of the Spirit unto him? And what [is] the one? He was seeking seed of God. Therefore keep guard over your⁺ spirit, and do not deal treacherously with the wife of your youth.

Matt. 19:5–6 5 and He said, ‘On account of this a man will leave the father and the mother and be joined with his wife, and the two will be for one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God yoked together, let man not separate.”

Gen. 2:18 And YHWH God said, “[It is] not good [for] the man to be alone; I will make for him a helper as his counterpart.”

Gen. 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it. And rule over the fish of the sea and over the bird of the heavens and over every living thing that is crawling upon the earth.”

1 Cor. 7:2, 9 2 But because of the sexual immorality, let each man have his [own] wife, and let each woman have [her] own husband. 9 But if they do not have self-control, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn.

Heb. 13:4 [Let] marriage [be] honored in all, and the marriage bed undefiled; for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

1 Tim. 4:3 forbidding to marry, [requiring] to abstain from foods that God created for reception with thanksgiving by the faithful and [by] [those] knowing the truth.

1 Cor. 7:39 A wife has been bound for as long a time [as] her husband may live; but if the husband shall have died, she is free to be married to whom she wants, only in the Lord.

Neh. 13:25–27 25 And I contended with them and cursed them and struck [some] men from them and pulled out their hair. And I made them swear by God, “You⁺ shall Not give your⁺ daughters to their sons or take from their daughters for your⁺ sons or for yourselves. 26 By these [things] did not Solomon king of Israel sin? And among the many nations there was not a king like him, and he was beloved to his God, and God gave him as king over all Israel; yet even him, the foreign women caused to sin. 27 And to you⁺ shall we listen to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God by settling [with] foreign women?”

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Mark 6:18 For John was saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have the wife of your brother.”

1 Cor. 5:1 Sexual immorality is actually heard [of] among you⁺, and sexual immorality such as [is] not even among the nations, so as for one to have the wife of the father.