Thematic Bible: Foes of the home
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Foes of the home » Adultery
If a man commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.
"You shall not commit adultery.
And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight, thinking, 'No eye can see me,' and covers his face with a mask.
"You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery.'
Now I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another commits adultery."
So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she is joined to another man, she is not an adulteress.
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals,
Their eyes, full of adultery, never stop sinning; they entice unstable people. They have trained their hearts for greed, these cursed children!
Foes of the home » Polygamy » Divorce
"Everyone who divorces his wife and marries someone else commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.
The one bound to a wife should not seek divorce. The one released from a wife should not seek marriage.
Therefore let us enact a covenant with our God to send away all these women and their offspring, in keeping with your counsel, my lord, and that of those who respect the commandments of our God. And let it be done according to the law.
"It was said, 'Whoever divorces his wife must give her a legal document.'
If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something offensive in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.
"If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and becomes another man's wife, he may not take her back again. Doing that would utterly defile the land. But you, Israel, have given yourself as a prostitute to many gods. So what makes you think you can return to me?" says the Lord.
They said to him, "Why then did Moses command us to give a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her?"
Foes of the home » Polygamy » Forbidden
The overseer then must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, an able teacher,
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An elder must be blameless, the husband of one wife, with faithful children who cannot be charged with dissipation or rebellion.
Furthermore, he must not marry many wives lest his affections turn aside, and he must not accumulate much silver and gold.
No one who has even a small portion of the Spirit in him does this. What did our ancestor do when seeking a child from God? Be attentive, then, to your own spirit, for one should not be disloyal to the wife he took in his youth.
He answered, "Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female,
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If a man commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.
"You shall not commit adultery.
And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight, thinking, 'No eye can see me,' and covers his face with a mask.
"You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery.'
Now I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another commits adultery."
So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she is joined to another man, she is not an adulteress.
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals,
Their eyes, full of adultery, never stop sinning; they entice unstable people. They have trained their hearts for greed, these cursed children!
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- Adulterers
- Adultery
- Adultery In The Church
- Adultery and Divorce
- Adultery, Consequences Of
- Annulment
- Avoid Adultery
- Being Single
- Bills Of Divorce
- Certificate of divorce
- Chastity
- Covetousness
- Divorce
- Divorce Permitted