Thematic Bible: Foes of the home


Thematic Bible





And the eye of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me; and he putteth a covering on his face.

Ye have heard that it has been said, Thou shalt not commit adultery.


so then, the husband being alive, she shall be called an adulteress if she be to another man; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, though she be to another man.




Every one who puts away his wife and marries another commits adultery; and every one that marries one put away from a husband commits adultery.

Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; art thou free from a wife? do not seek a wife.

And now let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandments of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

It has been said too, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a letter of divorce.

When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, it shall be if she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a letter of divorce, and give it into her hand, and send her out of his house.

They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? Would not that land be utterly polluted? But thou hast committed fornication with many lovers; yet return to me, saith Jehovah.

They say to him, Why then did Moses command to give a letter of divorce and to send her away?




Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away; neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

And did not one make them? and the remnant of the Spirit was his. And wherefore the one? He sought a seed of God. Take heed then to your spirit, and let none deal unfaithfully against the wife of his youth,





And the eye of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me; and he putteth a covering on his face.

Ye have heard that it has been said, Thou shalt not commit adultery.


so then, the husband being alive, she shall be called an adulteress if she be to another man; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, though she be to another man.