Thematic Bible: Foes of the home
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Foes of the home » Adultery
And if a man has sex relations with another man's wife, even the wife of his neighbour, he and she are certainly to be put to death.
Do not be false to the married relation.
And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about;
You have knowledge that it was said, You may not have connection with another man's wife:
And I say to you, Whoever puts away his wife for any other cause than the loss of her virtue, and takes another, is a false husband: and he who takes her as his wife when she is put away, is no true husband to her.
So if, while the husband is living, she is joined to another man, she will get the name of one who is untrue to her husband: but if the husband is dead, she is free from the law, so that she is not untrue, even if she takes another man.
Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,
Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy;
Foes of the home » Polygamy » Divorce
Everyone who puts away his wife and takes another, is a false husband: and he who is married to a woman whose husband has put her away, is no true husband to her.
If you are married to a wife, make no attempt to get free from her: if you are free from a wife, do not take a wife.
Let us now make an agreement with our God to put away all the wives and all their children, if it seems right to my lord and to those who go in fear of the words of our God; and let it be done in keeping with the law.
Again, it was said, Whoever puts away his wife has to give her a statement in writing for this purpose:
If a man takes a wife, and after they are married she is unpleasing to him because of some bad quality in her, let him give her a statement in writing and send her away from his house.
They say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's, will he go back to her again? will not that land have been made unclean? but though you have been acting like a loose woman with a number of lovers, will you now come back to me? says the Lord.
They say to him, Why then did Moses give orders that a husband might give her a statement in writing and be free from her?
Foes of the home » Polygamy » Forbidden
The Bishop, then, is to be a man of good name, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, serious-minded, having respect for order, opening his house freely to guests, a ready teacher;
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Men having a good record, husbands of one wife, whose children are of the faith, children of whom it may not be said that they are given to loose living or are uncontrolled.
And he is not to have a great number of wives, for fear that his heart may be turned away; or great wealth of silver and gold.
... So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years.
And he said in answer, Have you not seen in the Writings, that he who made them at the first made them male and female, and said,
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And if a man has sex relations with another man's wife, even the wife of his neighbour, he and she are certainly to be put to death.
Do not be false to the married relation.
And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about;
You have knowledge that it was said, You may not have connection with another man's wife:
And I say to you, Whoever puts away his wife for any other cause than the loss of her virtue, and takes another, is a false husband: and he who takes her as his wife when she is put away, is no true husband to her.
So if, while the husband is living, she is joined to another man, she will get the name of one who is untrue to her husband: but if the husband is dead, she is free from the law, so that she is not untrue, even if she takes another man.
Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,
Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy;
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- Adulterers
- Adultery
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- Adultery, Consequences Of
- Annulment
- Avoid Adultery
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- Bills Of Divorce
- Certificate of divorce
- Chastity
- Covetousness
- Divorce
- Divorce Permitted