And Adam said,
This is now bone
of my bones,
and flesh
of my flesh:
she shall be called Woman,
because
she
was taken out of Man.
Therefore shall
a man
leave his father
and his mother,
and shall cleave
unto his wife:
and
they shall be
one flesh.
When a man
hath taken
a new wife,
he shall not
go out to war,
neither shall
he be charged
with any business:
but
he shall be
free at home one year,
and shall cheer
up his wife
which he
hath taken.
Yet ye say,
Wherefore?
Because
the LORD
hath been
witness
between thee
and the wife
of thy youth,
against whom
thou hast dealt treacherously:
yet is
she thy companion,
and the wife
of thy covenant.
And did not
he make one?
Yet had
he the residue
of the spirit.
And wherefore one?
That he
might seek
a godly seed.
Therefore take
heed
to your spirit,
and let none
deal treacherously
against the wife
of his youth.
Jesus
answered
and
said unto them,
Ye do err,
not knowing
the scriptures,
nor the power
of God.
For in the resurrection
they neither marry,
nor are given
in marriage,
but are as the angels
of God
in heaven.
But from the beginning
of the creation God
made them male
and female.
For this cause
shall a man
leave his father
and mother,
and cleave
to his wife;
And
they twain
shall be one flesh:
so then they
are
no more twain,
but one flesh.
What
therefore God
hath joined together,
let not man
put asunder.
And in the house
his disciples
asked him again
of the same matter.
And
he saith unto them,
Whosoever
shall put away
his wife,
and marry
another,
committeth adultery
against her.
And
if a woman
shall put away
her husband,
and be married
to another,
she committeth adultery.
Know ye not,
brethren,
(for I
speak to them
that know
the law,)
how that
the law
hath dominion
over a man
as long as he liveth?
For the woman
which hath
an husband
is bound
by the law
to her husband so long
as he liveth;
but
if the husband
be dead,
she is loosed from the law
of her husband.
So then if,
while her husband liveth,
she be married
to another man,
she shall be called
an adulteress:
but
if her husband
be dead,
she is
free from that law;
so that
she is no adulteress,
though she
be married
to another man.
Now concerning the things
whereof
ye wrote unto me:
It is good
for a man not
to touch a woman.
Nevertheless,
to avoid fornication,
let every man
have his own wife,
and let every woman
have her own husband.
Let the husband
render
unto the wife due benevolence:
and likewise
also the wife
unto the husband.
The wife
hath not
power
of her own body,
but the husband:
and likewise also
the husband
hath not
power
of his own body,
but the wife.
Defraud
ye not
one the other,
except it
be
with consent
for a time,
that ye
may give yourselves
to fasting
and prayer;
and come
together again,
that Satan
tempt you
not for your incontinency.
But
I speak this
by permission,
and
not of commandment.
For I
would that all men
were
even as I myself.
But every man
hath his proper gift
of God,
one after this manner,
and another
after that.
I say therefore
to the unmarried
and widows,
It is good
for them
if they
abide even as I.
But
if they
cannot contain,
let them marry:
for it
is better
to marry than to burn.
And unto the married
I command,
yet not I,
but the Lord,
Let not
the wife
depart
from her husband:
But and
if she depart,
let her
remain
unmarried
or be reconciled
to her husband:
and let not
the husband
put away
his wife.
But to the rest
speak I,
not the Lord:
If any brother
hath
a wife that believeth not,
and
she be pleased
to dwell with him,
let him
not put her away.
And the woman
which hath
an husband that believeth not,
and
if he
be pleased
to dwell
with her,
let her
not leave him.
For the unbelieving husband
is sanctified
by the wife,
and the unbelieving wife
is sanctified
by the husband:
else were your children unclean;
but now are
they holy.
But
if the unbelieving depart,
let him depart.
A brother
or a sister
is not
under bondage
in such cases:
but God
hath called us
to peace.
For what
knowest thou,
O wife,
whether thou
shalt save
thy husband?
or how knowest thou,
O man,
whether thou
shalt save
thy wife?
But as God
hath distributed
to every man,
as the Lord
hath called
every one,
so let him walk.
And so
ordain
I in all churches.
Is any man
called
being circumcised?
let him
not become
uncircumcised.
Is any called in uncircumcision?
let him
not be circumcised.
Circumcision is nothing,
and uncircumcision
is nothing,
but the keeping
of the commandments
of God.
Let every man
abide in
the same calling wherein
he was called.
Art
thou called
being a servant?
care not for it:
but
if thou
mayest be made free,
use it rather.
For he
that is called in
the Lord,
being a servant,
is the Lord's freeman:
likewise also
he that is called,
being free,
is Christ's servant.
Ye are bought
with a price;
be not
ye the servants
of men.
Brethren,
let every man,
wherein he
is called,
therein abide
with God.
Now concerning virgins
I have no commandment
of the Lord:
yet I
give
my judgment,
as one
that hath obtained mercy
of the Lord
to be faithful.
I suppose therefore
that this
is good
for the present distress,
I say,
that it
is good
for a man so to be.
Art
thou bound
unto a wife?
seek not
to be loosed.
Art
thou loosed
from a wife?
seek not
a wife.
But and
if thou marry,
thou hast not sinned;
and
if a virgin marry,
she hath not sinned.
Nevertheless such
shall have
trouble
in the flesh:
but
I spare you.
But this
I say,
brethren,
the time
is short:
it remaineth,
that both
they that
have
wives be as
though they
had none;
And
they that weep,
as though
they wept not;
and
they that rejoice,
as though
they rejoiced not;
and
they that buy,
as though
they possessed not;
And
they that use
this world,
as not abusing it:
for the fashion
of this world passeth away.
But
I would have you
without carefulness.
He that is unmarried
careth
for the things
that belong
to the Lord,
how he
may please
the Lord:
But
he that is married
careth
for the things
that are of the world,
how he
may please
his wife.
There is difference
also between a wife
and a virgin.
The unmarried woman
careth
for the things
of the Lord,
that she
may be holy both
in body
and in spirit:
but
she that is married
careth
for the things
of the world,
how she
may please
her husband.
And this
I speak
for your own profit;
not
that I
may cast
a snare
upon you,
but for that which
is comely,
and
that ye
may attend upon the Lord
without distraction.
But
if any man
think
that he
behaveth himself
uncomely toward his virgin,
if she
pass the flower
of her age,
and need so require,
let him
do
what he will,
he sinneth not:
let them marry.
Nevertheless
he that
standeth stedfast
in his heart,
having no necessity,
but hath
power
over his own will,
and hath so
decreed
in his heart
that he
will keep
his virgin,
doeth well.
So then he
that
giveth
her in marriage
doeth well;
but he
that
giveth
her
not in marriage
doeth better.
The wife
is bound
by the law
as long
as her husband liveth;
but
if her husband
be dead,
she is at liberty
to be married
to whom she will;
only in the Lord.
But
she is happier
if she so abide,
after my judgment:
and
I think also that
I have
the Spirit
of God.
Be ye
not unequally yoked
together
with unbelievers:
for what fellowship
hath righteousness
with unrighteousness?
and
what communion
hath light
with darkness?
Now the Spirit
speaketh expressly,
that in the latter times
some shall depart
from the faith,
giving
heed
to seducing spirits,
and doctrines
of devils;
I will therefore
that the younger women marry,
bear children,
guide the house,
give none occasion
to the adversary
to speak reproachfully.
Marriage is honourable
in all,
and the bed undefiled:
but whoremongers
and adulterers God
will judge.