A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of birth. | Ecclesiastes 7:1

All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. | John 1:3

And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. | Luke 2:8

But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced before the company and pleased Herod. | Matthew 14:6

But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. | James 2:18

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son. | Hebrews 11:17

Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul. | 3 John 1:2

But an opportunity came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee. | Mark 6:21

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. | Jeremiah 29:11

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. | John 3:16-17

For by me your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life. | Proverbs 9:11

It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops. | 2 Timothy 2:6

I thank my God in all my remembrance of you. | Philippians 1:3

May he grant you your heart’s desire and fulfill all your plans! | Psalm 20:4

One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God. | Romans 14:5-6

One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. | Romans 14:5

The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing. | Zephaniah 3:17

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. | Lamentations 3:22-23

Thus says the Lord: “Learn not the way of the nations, nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens because the nations are dismayed at them. | Jeremiah 10:2

Thus says the Lord: “Learn not the way of the nations, nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens because the nations are dismayed at them, for the customs of the peoples are vanity. A tree from the forest is cut down and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman. | Jeremiah 10:2-3

Upon you I have leaned from before my birth; you are he who took me from my mother’s womb. My praise is continually of you. | Psalm 71:6

Why did I come out from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in shame? | Jeremiah 20:18

You crown the year with your bounty; your wagon tracks overflow with abundance. | Psalm 65:11

You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes. | Leviticus 18:3

You shall have no other gods before me. | Exodus 20:3

Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. | Psalm 139:16

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. | Hebrews 11:6

Abstain from every form of evil. | 1 Thessalonians 5:22

And they cried aloud and cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out upon them. | 1 Kings 18:28

All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up. | 1 Corinthians 10:23

But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin. | Romans 14:23

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. | Colossians 3:20

Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? | 1 Corinthians 3:16

Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple. | 1 Corinthians 3:16-17

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. | Romans 12:2

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. | Ephesians 6:4

For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church. | Ephesians 5:29

For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died. | Romans 14:15

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. | Romans 12:1

Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire. | 1 Timothy 2:9

Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. | 1 Thessalonians 5:23

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. | 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords. | Revelation 19:16

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own. | 1 Corinthians 6:19

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. | 1 Corinthians 10:31

This one will say, ‘I am the Lord’s,’ another will call on the name of Jacob, and another will write on his hand, ‘The Lord’s,’ and name himself by the name of Israel. | Isaiah 44:5

Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome . | Corinthians 6:17

You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead. | Deuteronomy 14:1

You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord. | Leviticus 19:28

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.” This great truth should have a real bearing on what we do and where we go with our bodies. If our bodies belong to God, we should make sure we have His clear “permission” before we “mark them up” with tattoos or body piercings.

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him. | 1 John 5:14-15

And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. | James 5:15

And the Lord will take away from you all sickness and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you. | Deuteronomy 7:15

And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction. | Matthew 10:1

And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction. | Matthew 9:35

Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul. | 3 John 1:2

Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security. | Jeremiah 33:6

But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. | Isaiah 53:5

But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall. | Malachi 4:2

Creating the fruit of the lips. Peace, peace, to the far and to the near,” says the Lord, “and I will heal him. | Isaiah 57:19

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. | Matthew 11:28

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree. | Galatians 3:13

For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the Lord, because they have called you an outcast: ‘It is Zion, for whom no one cares! | Jeremiah 30:17

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. | Isaiah 41:10

Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body. | Proverbs 16:24

He sent out his word and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction. | Psalm 107:20

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. | 1 Peter 2:24

Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise. | Jeremiah 17:14

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. | Psalm 147:3

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. | Acts 10:38

Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying; give without pay. | Matthew 10:8

Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. | James 5:14

If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. | 2 Chronicles 7:14

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. | Hebrews 13:8

My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh. | Proverbs 4:20-22

O Lord my God, I cried to you for help, and you have healed me. | Psalm 30:2

Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. | Isaiah 53:4-5

Saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer. | Exodus 15:26

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. | James 4:7

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. | James 5:16

Who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases. | Psalm 103:3

When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick. | Matthew 14:14

You shall serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you. | Exodus 23:25

And little do most people know, but reading the Bible can heal you, too. Maybe the Bible isn’t magical, but it will put you in the proper state of mind to be healed. When you open your mind to positive healing, the most amazing things can happen to you if you have Faith. Pray to Jesus for a healing because He hears you.

As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us. | Psalm 103:12

And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. | Mark 11:25

But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. | 2 Corinthians 2:14

Behold, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but in love you have delivered my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back. | Isaiah 38:17

But if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. | Matthew 6:15

Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. | Colossians 3:13

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. |
Ephesians 4:32

But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you. | Luke 6:27

For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. | Matthew 6:14-15

Forgiveness is a decision of the will. Since God commands us to forgive, we must make a conscious choice to obey God and forgive. The offender may not desire forgiveness and may not ever change, but that doesn’t negate God’s desire that we possess a forgiving spirit . | Matthew 5:44

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. | Romans 3:23

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses. | Proverbs 10:12

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. | 1 John 1:9

I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you. Sing, O heavens, for the Lord has done it; shout, O depths of the earth; break forth into singing, O mountains, O forest, and every tree in it! For the Lord has redeemed Jacob, and will be glorified in Israel. | Isaiah 44:22-23

In return for my love they accuse me, but I give myself to prayer. | Psalm 109:4

Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven. | Luke 6:37

Know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other. | Deuteronomy 4:39

Leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. | Matthew 5:24

Let them curse, but you will bless! They arise and are put to shame, but your servant will be glad! | Psalm 109:28

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. | 1 Corinthians 10:13

Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven. | Matthew 18:21-22

Two others, who were criminals, were led away to be put to death with him. | Luke 23:32

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. | James 5:16

This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. | John 15:12

Therefore say to them, Thus declares the Lord of hosts: Return to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. | Zechariah 1:3

Jesus extends a loving invitation for forgiveness of sins which is only possible through His shed blood. He gave His life so that we may live. We are forgiven because He was forsaken – That is amazing love!

And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. | Matthew 24:12

As a lily among brambles, so is my love among the young women. | Song of Solomon 2:2

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy. | 1 Peter 1:14-16

And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person. | Mark 7:20-23

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. | Matthew 5:28

But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. | 1 Corinthians 7:2

But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. | Revelation 2:20

But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice sexual immorality. | Revelation 2:14

But if the thing is true, that evidence of virginity was not found in the young woman, then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done an outrageous thing in Israel by whoring in her father’s house. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. | Deuteronomy 22:20-21

But should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood. | Acts 15:20

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.” But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. | 1 Corinthians 6:15-17

Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. | 1 Corinthians 6:13

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. | 1 Corinthians 6:18-20

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God. | 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5

If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall give the bride-price for her and make her his wife. If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the bride-price for virgins. | Exodus 22:16-17

If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel. | Deuteronomy 22:22

If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her, then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor’s wife. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. | Deuteronomy 22:23-24

If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace, and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness, and he shall bear his iniquity. | Leviticus 20:17

If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. | Leviticus 20:13

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father’s wife. | 1 Corinthians 5:1

Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire. | Jude 1:7

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. | Hebrews 13:4

Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. | 2 Peter 3:3

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality. | Galatians 5:19
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. | 1 Corinthians 10:13

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. | 1 Corinthians 6:9-10

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. | Colossians 3:5

To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single as I am. But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion. | 1 Corinthians 7:8-9

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. | Genesis 2:24

They said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.” It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit. | Jude 1:18-19

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. These things I command you, so that you will love one another. | John 15:16-17

The only possible reference to premarital sex being a sin in the Bible is in the New Testament. This premise although, is generally dismissed by theologians because the Greek word pornei, or sexual immorality is commonly incorrectly translated into the English word fornication.

And all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain. | Revelation 13:8

And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed. | Acts 13:48

But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace. | Galatians 1:15

But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth. | 2 Thessalonians 2:13

Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love. | Ephesians 1:4

For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you. | 1 Thessalonians 1:4

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. | Ephesians 2:10

For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel as his own possession. | Psalm 135:4

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. | Ephesians 2:8-9

For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. | Romans 8:29

He predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will. | Ephesians 1:5

He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you. | 1 Peter 1:20

In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. | Ephesians 1:11-12

Including you who are called to belong to Jesus Christ. | Romans 1:6

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. | John 15:19

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. | John 6:44

Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness. | Titus 1:1

Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience | Colossians 3:12

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. | 2 Peter 3:9

The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble. | Proverbs 16:4

Thus says the Lord who made you, who formed you from the womb and will help you: Fear not, O Jacob my servant, Jeshurun whom I have chosen. | Isaiah 44:2

The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps. | Proverbs 16:9

Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. | Romans 8:33

Who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began. | 2 Timothy 1:9

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. | John 15:16

Predestination reveals God’s great sovereignty and right to do with His creation as He desires. But also we can see that predestination deals with salvation.

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth. | Genesis 1:28

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord. | 1 Corinthians 7:39

But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate. | Mark 10:6-9

But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace. | 1 Corinthians 7:15

But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. | 1 Corinthians 7:2

But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery. | Matthew 5:32

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? | 2 Corinthians 6:14

Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery. | Luke 16:18

For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. | Romans 7:2

For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless. | Malachi 2:16

He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord. | Proverbs 18:22

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. | Ephesians 5:33

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. | Ephesians 5:25
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. | Leviticus 20:13

Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire. | Jude 1:7

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. | Hebrews 13:4

Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well. | 1 Timothy 3:12

Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered. | 1 Peter 3:7

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality. | 1 Corinthians 6:9

So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander. | 1 Timothy 5:14

Then the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him. | Genesis 2:18

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. | Galatians 3:28

Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease. | Jeremiah 29:6

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. | Genesis 2:24

Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. | Ephesians 5:31

Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach. | 1 Timothy 3:2

You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. | Leviticus 18:22

Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. | Colossians 3:18

When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty. He shall be free at home one year to be happy with his wife whom he has taken. | Deuteronomy 24:5

What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate. | Mark 10:9

You shall not commit adultery. | Exodus 20:14

And then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day. | Luke 2:37

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord. | 1 Corinthians 7:39

Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress. | Romans 7:3

And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years, having lived with her husband seven years from when she was a virgin. | Luke 2:36

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations. | Jeremiah 1:5

But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion. | 1 Corinthians 7:9

But Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons. | Ruth 1:3

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. | 1 Timothy 5:8

Do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart. | Zechariah 7:10

For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. | Romans 10:13

Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you. | Ezekiel 22:7

Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation. | Psalm 68:5

If any believing woman has relatives who are widows, let her care for them. Let the church not be burdened, so that it may care for those who are truly widows. | 1 Timothy 5:16

If you do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm. | Jeremiah 7:6

Leave your fatherless children; I will keep them alive; and let your widows trust in me. | Jeremiah 49:11

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world. | James 1:27

See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. | Colossians 2:8

The Lord watches over the sojourners; he upholds the widow and the fatherless, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin. | Psalm 146:9

The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy. | Job 29:13

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow’s ox for a pledge. | Job 24:3

To turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey! | Isaiah 10:2

The Lord tears down the house of the proud but maintains the widow’s boundaries. | Proverbs 15:25

The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy, and have extorted from the sojourner without justice. | Ezekiel 22:29

They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless. | Psalm 94:6

To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single as I am. | 1 Corinthians 7:8

Who devour widows’ houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation. | Luke 20:47

Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression. | Isaiah 10:1

Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether. Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust? Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese? You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. You have granted me life and steadfast love, and your care has preserved my spirit. | Job 10:8-12

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed. | Job 22:9

Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow’s cause does not come to them. | Isaiah 1:23

God promises blessings to those who care for widows. Let this study enable you to practice the pure religion that pleases our Father in heaven.

A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. | Proverbs 31:10

A kindhearted woman gains honor, but ruthless men gain only wealth. | Proverbs 11:16

A noble wife is the crown of her husband, but the wife who acts shamefully is like rottenness in his bones. | Proverbs 12:4

An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones. | Proverbs 12:4

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. | Matthew 5:28

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate. | Psalm 127:3-5

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates. | Proverbs 31:30-31

Her husband trusts her completely. With her, he has everything he needs. She does him good and not harm for as long as she lives. | Proverbs 31:11-12

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. | Ephesians 5:33

If I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth. | 1 Timothy 3:15

It is better to live on a corner of the housetop than in a house in company with a quarrelsome wife. | Proverbs 21:9

Jesus said to him, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ | Matthew 22:37

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, | 1 Peter 3:1

Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well. | 1 Timothy 3:12

Not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near. | Hebrews 10:25

She is like a seagoing ship that brings her food from far away. She rises while it is still night, preparing meals for her family and providing for her women servants. | Proverbs 31:14-15

She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue. | Proverbs 31:26

She looks well to the ways of her household, And does not eat the bread of idleness. Her children rise up and bless her; Her husband also, and he praises her, saying. | Proverbs 31:27-28

She is confident that her profits are sufficient. Her lamp does not go out at night. | Proverbs 31:18

She dresses herself with strength and makes her arms strong. | Proverbs 31:17

She designs and sells linen garments, supplying accessories to clothiers. | Proverbs 31:24

Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come. | Proverbs 31:25

So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander. | 1 Timothy 5:14

To be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. | Titus 2:5

Teach children in a way that fits their needs, and even when they are old, they will not leave the right path. | Proverbs 22:6

Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, | 1 Timothy 3:2

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. | Ephesians 5:22-24

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. | Ephesians 5:22

True virtue represents a moral excellence that is judged against the standard of the Word of God alone. Someone may be thought of as a good person by the world’s standards because they do good things. But that person may not measure up to the standards of the Word. This is true for many individuals.

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. | 1 John 4:8

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. | 1 Peter 4:8

And he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, Go and search diligently for the child, and when you have found him, bring me word, that I too may come and worship him. | Matthew 2:8

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. | Romans 5:8

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. | 1 John 3:16

But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you. | Luke 6:27

But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!” | Luke 11:28

But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. | Matthew 13:16

But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit. | Titus 3:4-5

Desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions. | 1 Timothy 1:7

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God. | Ephesians 2:8

For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins. | Hebrews 10:26

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. | John 3:16

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. | 1 John 4:9-10

I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. | John 17:23

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. | Romans 12:9-10

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. | Ephesians 4:31-32

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. | 1 John 4:16

So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy. | Philippians 2:1

Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age. | Matthew 28:20

The Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you. | Jeremiah 31:3

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? | Romans 8:35

You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me. | Isaiah 43:10

The main use of unconditional in Christianity is the assertion “That God so loved the world…” In other words, God loves the world enough to suffer for us without preconditions. There is then that postcondition of actually accepting that Grace.