Thematic Bible: Foes of the home


Thematic Bible





“The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight,
Saying, ‘No eye will see me.’
And he disguises his face.

You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery’;


So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man.




Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you released from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

So now let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

“It was said, ‘Whoever sends his wife away, let him give her a certificate of divorce’;

“When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house,

God says, “If a husband divorces his wife
And she goes from him
And belongs to another man,
Will he still return to her?
Will not that land be completely polluted?
But you are a harlot with many lovers;
Yet you turn to Me,” declares the Lord.

They *said to Him, “Why then did Moses command to give her a certificate of divorce and send her away?”




He shall not multiply wives for himself, or else his heart will turn away; nor shall he greatly increase silver and gold for himself.

But not one has done so who has a remnant of the Spirit. And what did that one do while he was seeking a godly offspring? Take heed then to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of your youth.





“The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight,
Saying, ‘No eye will see me.’
And he disguises his face.

You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery’;


So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man.




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