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Gen 2:18 Yahweh God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.”
2:19 Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
2:20 The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper suitable for him.
2:21 Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
2:22 He made the rib, which Yahweh God had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man.
2:23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”
2:24 Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
2:25 They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Gen 3:16 To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

Gen 3:20 The man called his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

Pro 18:22 Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

Pro 19:14 House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

Gen 24:1 Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.
24:2 Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your hand under my thigh.
24:3 I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.
24:4 But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”
24:5 The servant said to him, “What if the woman isn’t willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?”
24:6 Abraham said to him, “Beware that you don’t bring my son there again.
24:7 Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, ‘I will give this land to your seed.’ He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
24:8 If the woman isn’t willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this my oath. Only you shall not bring my son there again.”
24:9 The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.

Gen 24:49 Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.”
24:50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing proceeds from Yahweh. We can’t speak to you bad or good.
24:51 Behold, Rebekah is before you. Take her, and go, and let her be your master’s son’s wife, as Yahweh has spoken.”
24:52 It happened that when Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to Yahweh.
24:53 The servant brought out jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and her mother.
24:54 They ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and stayed all night. They rose up in the morning, and he said, “Send me away to my master.”
24:55 Her brother and her mother said, “Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go.”
24:56 He said to them, “Don’t hinder me, since Yahweh has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.”
24:57 They said, “We will call the young lady, and ask her.”
24:58 They called Rebekah, and said to her, “Will you go with this man?”
She said, “I will go.”
24:59 They sent away Rebekah, their sister, with her nurse, Abraham’s servant, and his men.
24:60 They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed possess the gate of those who hate them.”
24:61 Rebekah arose with her ladies. They rode on the camels, and followed the man. The servant took Rebekah, and went his way.
24:62 Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of the South.
24:63 Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. He lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming.
24:64 Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from the camel.
24:65 She said to the servant, “Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?”
The servant said, “It is my master.”
She took her veil, and covered herself.
24:66 The servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.
24:67 Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Gen 29:16 Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
29:17 Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.
29:18 Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”
29:19 Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”
29:20 Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
29:21 Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”
29:22 Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
29:23 It happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.
29:24 Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid.
29:25 It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”
29:26 Laban said, “It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.
29:27 Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years.”
29:28 Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.
29:29 Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her handmaid.
29:30 He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

1st Corinthians

7:1 Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

7:2 But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

7:3 Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

7:4 The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.

7:5 Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

7:6 But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

7:7 Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

7:8 But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

7:9 But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

7:10 But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband

7:11 (but if she departs: let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

7:12 But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.

7:13 The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.

7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

7:15 Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

7:16 For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

7:17 Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

7:18 Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

7:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

7:20 Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.

7:21 Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

7:22 For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.

7:23 You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men.

7:24 Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.

7:25 Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

7:26 I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is.

7:27 Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.

7:28 But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

7:29 But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

7:30 and those who weep, as though they didn’t weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn’t rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn’t possess;

7:31 and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

7:32 But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

7:33 but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

7:34 There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband.

7:35 This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

7:36 But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry.

7:37 But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own heart, to keep his own virgin, does well.

7:38 So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn’t give her in marriage does better.

7:39 A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

7:40 But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God’s Spirit.

Eph 5:22 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.
5:24 But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
5:26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
5:27 that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
5:28 Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
5:29 For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;
5:30 because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.
5:31 “For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”
5:32 This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.
5:33 Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Pro 5:1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding:

5:2 that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.

5:3 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,

5:4 But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

5:5 Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.

5:6 She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.

5:7 Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don’t depart from the words of my mouth.

5:8 Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house,

5:9 lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;

5:10 lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man’s house.

5:11 You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

5:12 and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

5:13 neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!

5:14 I have come to the brink of utter ruin, in the midst of the gathered assembly.”

5:15 Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.

5:16 Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?

5:17 Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.

5:18 Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

5:19 A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.

5:20 For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of Yahweh. He examines all his paths.

5:22 The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

5:23 He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

Ecc 9:9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

1Sam 1:8 Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

Psa 128:3 Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.

Mat 19:3 Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
19:4 He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
19:5 and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’
19:6 So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”
19:7 They asked him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?”
19:8 He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.
19:9 I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

Mark 10:2 Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
10:3 He answered, “What did Moses command you?”
10:4 They said, “Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her.”
10:5 But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.
10:6 But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.
10:7 For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,
10:8 and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.
10:9 What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
10:10 In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter.
10:11 He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.
10:12 If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery.”

Mat 5:31 “It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’
5:32 but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

Luk 16:18 Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

Mat 10:38 He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me.

Mat 16:24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Mark 8:34 He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Luk 9:23 He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

Luk 14:27 Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.

Heb 12:2 looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Mal 2:10 Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
2:11 Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
2:12 Yahweh will cut off, to the man who does this, him who wakes and him who answers, out of the tents of Jacob, and him who offers an offering to Yahweh of Armies.
2:13 This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.
2:14 Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.
2:15 Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
2:16 For I hate divorce,” says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.
2:17 You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Yahweh, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’

Tit 2:4 that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
2:5 to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

Heb 13:4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

1Pet 3:1 In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;
3:2 seeing your pure behavior in fear.
3:3 Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;
3:4 but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.
3:5 For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:
3:6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

1Pet 3:7 You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

Deu 24:5 When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

2Cor 6:14 Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Amos 3:3 Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?

Deu 7:1 When Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before you, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than you;
7:2 and when Yahweh your God shall deliver them up before you, and you shall strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them;
7:3 neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.
7:4 For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so the anger of Yahweh would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.

Col 3:18 Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
3:19 Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

Psa 128:1 Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.
128:2 For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.
128:3 Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.
128:4 Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears Yahweh.
128:5 May Yahweh bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.
128:6 Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel.

Isa 62:1 For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burns.
62:2 The nations shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name, which the mouth of Yahweh shall name.
62:3 You shall also be a crown of beauty in the hand of Yahweh, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
62:4 You shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall your land any more be termed Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land shall be married.
62:5 For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons shall marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

Jer 2:2 “Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

Rev 2:1 “To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write:
“He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lampstands says these things:
2:2 “I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.
2:3 You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.
2:4 But I have this against you, that you left your first love.
2:5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent.

Mat 22:1 Jesus answered and spoke again in parables to them, saying,
22:2 “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son,
22:3 and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not come.
22:4 Again he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “Behold, I have prepared my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage feast!”’
22:5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise,
22:6 and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them.
22:7 When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
22:8 “Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited weren’t worthy.
22:9 Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the marriage feast.’
22:10 Those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests.
22:11 But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing,
22:12 and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless.
22:13 Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.’
22:14 For many are called, but few chosen.”

Mat 25:1 “Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.
25:2 Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.
25:3 Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them,
25:4 but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
25:5 Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.
25:6 But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!’
25:7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
25:8 The foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’
25:9 But the wise answered, saying, ‘What if there isn’t enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’
25:10 While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.
25:11 Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us.’
25:12 But he answered, ‘Most certainly I tell you, I don’t know you.’
25:13 Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

John 2:1 The third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there.
2:2 Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the marriage.
2:3 When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no wine.”
2:4 Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come.”
2:5 His mother said to the servants, “Whatever he says to you, do it.”
2:6 Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews’ way of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.
2:7 Jesus said to them, “Fill the water pots with water.” They filled them up to the brim.
2:8 He said to them, “Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast.” So they took it.
2:9 When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn’t know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew): the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom,
2:10 and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!”

Rev 19:5 A voice came forth from the throne, saying, “Give praise to our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, the small and the great!”
19:6 I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns!
19:7 Let us rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let us give the glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”
19:8 It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
19:9 He said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.’” He said to me, “These are true words of God.”

Rev 21:1 I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.
21:2 I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

Rev 21:9 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the wife, the Lamb’s bride.”
21:10 He carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
21:11 having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, as if it were a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
21:12 having a great and high wall; having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.
21:13 On the east were three gates; and on the north three gates; and on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
21:14 The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.
21:15 He who spoke with me had for a measure, a golden reed, to measure the city, its gates, and its walls.
21:16 The city lies foursquare, and its length is as great as its breadth. He measured the city with the reed, Twelve thousand twelve stadia. Its length, breadth, and height are equal.
21:17 Its wall is one hundred forty-four cubits, by the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.
21:18 The construction of its wall was jasper. The city was pure gold, like pure glass.
21:19 The foundations of the city’s wall were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;
21:20 the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprasus; the eleventh, jacinth; and the twelfth, amethyst.
21:21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each one of the gates was made of one pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.
21:22 I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are its temple.
21:23 The city has no need for the sun, neither of the moon, to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.
21:24 The nations will walk in its light. The kings of the earth bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.
21:25 Its gates will in no way be shut by day (for there will be no night there):
21:26 and they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it so that they may enter.
21:27 There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Rev 22:17 The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.

Isa 54:4 “Don’t be afraid; for you shall not be ashamed: neither be confounded; for you shall not be disappointed: for you shall forget the shame of your youth; and the reproach of your widowhood you shall remember no more.
54:5 For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.
54:6 For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off,” says your God.

Isa 61:10 I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Song 2:1 I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys. Lover

2:2 As a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. Beloved

2:3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons.

I sat down under his shadow with great delight, his fruit was sweet to my taste.

2:4 He brought me to the banquet hall. His banner over me is love.

Song 4:1 Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that descend from Mount Gilead.

4:2 Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock, which have come up from the washing, where every one of them has twins. None is bereaved among them.

4:3 Your lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.

4:4 Your neck is like David’s tower built for an armory, whereon a thousand shields hang, all the shields of the mighty men.

4:5 Your two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe, which feed among the lilies.

4:6 Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense.

4:7 You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.

4:8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards.

4:9 You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.

4:10 How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine! The fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices!

4:11 Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

4:12 A locked up garden is my sister, my bride; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.

4:13 Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits: henna with spikenard plants,

4:14 spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,

4:15 a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon. Beloved

4:16 Awake, north wind; and come, you south! Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and taste his precious fruits. Lover

5:1 I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Friends Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved. Beloved

5:2 I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”

Song 2:10 My beloved spoke, and said to me, “Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.

Song 2:13 The fig tree ripens her green figs. The vines are in blossom. They give forth their fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.” Lover

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Eph 5:3 But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

Gen 39:1 Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there.
39:2 Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
39:3 His master saw that Yahweh was with him, and that Yahweh made all that he did prosper in his hand.
39:4 Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.
39:5 It happened from the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that Yahweh blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake; and the blessing of Yahweh was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.
39:6 He left all that he had in Joseph’s hand. He didn’t concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate.
Joseph was well-built and handsome.
39:7 It happened after these things, that his master’s wife cast her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”
39:8 But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.
39:9 He isn’t greater in this house than I, neither has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”
39:10 As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
39:11 About this time, he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside.
39:12 She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!”
He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.
39:13 When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had run outside,
39:14 she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, “Behold, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.
39:15 It happened, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”
39:16 She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.
39:17 She spoke to him according to these words, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me,
39:18 and it happened, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”

Jer 3:1 “They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man’s, will he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me,” says Yahweh.

Jam 4:4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

1Cor 6:12 “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.
6:13 “Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
6:14 Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.
6:15 Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!
6:16 Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two,” says he, “will become one flesh.”
6:17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
6:18 Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
6:19 Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,
6:20 for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Pro 5:20 For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of Yahweh. He examines all his paths.
5:22 The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.
5:23 He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

Pro 6:20 My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.
6:21 Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
6:22 When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.
6:23 For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
6:24 to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.
6:25 Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
6:26 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.
6:27 Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burned?
6:28 Or can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?
6:29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.
6:30 Men don’t despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry:
6:31 but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house.
6:32 He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.
6:33 He will get wounds and dishonor. His reproach will not be wiped away.
6:34 For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won’t spare in the day of vengeance.
6:35 He won’t regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.

Pro 7:1 My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

7:2 Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

7:3 Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

7:4 Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,

7:5 that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

7:6 For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.

7:7 I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

7:8 passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,

7:9 in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.

7:10 Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.

7:11 She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.

7:12 Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.

7:13 So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:

7:14 “Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. This day I have paid my vows.

7:15 Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.

7:16 I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.

7:17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

7:18 Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the morning. Let’s solace ourselves with loving.

7:19 For my husband isn’t at home. He has gone on a long journey.

7:20 He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.”

7:21 With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

7:22 He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

7:23 Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.

7:24 Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.

7:25 Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,

7:26 for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.

7:27 Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.

Pro 14:1 Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

Lev 18:19 You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.

Col 3:5 Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

1John 2:15 Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

1John 3:9 Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

1Thes 4:3 For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
4:4 that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
4:5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God;
4:6 that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.
4:7 For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
4:8 Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

1John 2:17 The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

2Cor 11:2 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

Gen 1:27 God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
1:28 God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Gen 9:1 God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.