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1 Corinthians 7 14
For the unbelieving husband is made holy by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy by the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is they are holy.
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1 Timothy 3 4-1 Timothy 3 5
He must manage his own household competently and have his children under control with all dignity.( If anyone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of God’s church?)
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1 Timothy 3 11-1 Timothy 3 12
Wives, likewise, should be worthy of respect, not slanderers, self-controlled, faithful in everything.Deacons are to be husbands of one wife, managing their children and their own households competently.
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Titus 1:6
An elder must be blameless, the husband of one wife, with faithful children who are not accused of wildness or rebellion.
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Matthew 19:4-6
“ Haven’t you read,” he replied,“ that he who created them in the beginning made them male and female,and he also said,‘ For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
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Genesis 24:3-7
and I will have you swear by the LORD, God of heaven and God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I live,but will go to my land and my family to take a wife for my son Isaac.”The servant said to him,“ Suppose the woman is unwilling to follow me to this land? Should I have your son go back to the land you came from?”Abraham answered him,“ Make sure that you don’t take my son back there.The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from my native land, who spoke to me and swore to me,‘ I will give this land to your offspring’— he will send his angel before you, and you can take a wife for my son from there.
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Genesis 1:27
So God created man in his own image; he created him in the image of God; he created them male and female.
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1 Corinthians 7 2
But because sexual immorality is so common, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman should have sexual relations with her own husband.
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Genesis 28:2-4
Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father. Marry one of the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you so that you become an assembly of peoples.May God give you and your offspring the blessing of Abraham so that you may possess the land where you live as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”
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Jeremiah 2:21
I planted you, a choice vine from the very best seed. How then could you turn into a degenerate, foreign vine?
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Deuteronomy 7:4
because they will turn your sons away from me to worship other gods. Then the LORD’s anger will burn against you, and he will swiftly destroy you.
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Hosea 1:10
Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And in the place where they were told: You are not my people, they will be called: Sons of the living God.
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Job 27:3
as long as my breath is still in me and the breath from God remains in my nostrils,
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Genesis 6:2
the sons of God saw that the daughters of mankind were beautiful, and they took any they chose as wives for themselves.
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Genesis 2:7
Then the LORD God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
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Mark 10:6-8
But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female.For this reason a man will leave his father and motherand the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
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Genesis 24:44
and who responds to me,‘ Drink, and I’ll draw water for your camels also’— let her be the woman the LORD has appointed for my master’s son.
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Ezra 9:4
Everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel gathered around me, because of the unfaithfulness of the exiles, while I sat devastated until the evening offering.
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Ephesians 6:4
Fathers, don’t stir up anger in your children, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
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2 Corinthians 6 18
And I will be a Father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.
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John 20:22
After saying this, he breathed on them and said,“ Receive the Holy Spirit.
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Proverbs 4:23
Guard your heart above all else, for it is the source of life.
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Genesis 26:34-35
When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hethite, and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hethite.They made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.
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Matthew 5:28-29
But I tell you, everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
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Nehemiah 13:24
Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or the language of one of the other peoples but could not speak Hebrew.
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Matthew 15:19
For from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, slander.
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Proverbs 7:25
Don’t let your heart turn aside to her ways; don’t stray onto her paths.
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Genesis 27:46
So Rebekah said to Isaac,“ I’m sick of my life because of these Hethite girls. If Jacob marries someone from around here, like these Hethite girls, what good is my life?”
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Ecclesiastes 12:7
and the dust returns to the earth as it once was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
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Proverbs 6:25
Don’t lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyelashes.
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Acts 3:25
You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors, saying to Abraham, And all the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.
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Malachi 2:14
And you ask,“ Why?” Because even though the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, you have acted treacherously against her. She was your marriage partner and your wife by covenant.
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Genesis 2:20-24
The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the sky, and to every wild animal; but for the man no helper was found corresponding to him.So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to come over the man, and he slept. God took one of his ribs and closed the flesh at that place.Then the LORD God made the rib he had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man.And the man said: This one, at last, is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called“ woman,” for she was taken from man.This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh.
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James 1:14-15
But each person is tempted when he is drawn away and enticed by his own evil desire.Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death.