Bible verses about "living together unmarried" | Living_Oracles

⁹ Then he spoke to the people this parable: A man planted a vineyard, and farmed it out, and having traveled, continued long abroad.

¹⁷ For, if any one be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new!

²² Abstain from all appearance of evil.

⁹ Therefore, I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for whoredom, and marries another, commits adultery: and whoever marries the woman divorced, commits adultery.

¹⁶ for God has so loved the world, as to give his own begotten Son, that whosoever believes on him, may not perish, but obtain eternal life. ¹⁷ For God has sent his Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world may be saved by him.

¹⁶ Jesus said to her, Go, call your husband, and come back. ¹⁷ She answered, I have no husband. Jesus replied, You say well, I have no husband; ¹⁸ for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have, is not your husband. In this, you have spoken truth.

¹⁸ Whoever divorces his wife, and takes another, commits adultery; and whoever marries the divorced woman, commits adultery.

²⁰ but to write to them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from that which is strangled, and from blood.

⁸ For if any one provide not for his own, and especially those of his own family, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

¹⁹ Now, the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these. Fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

¹ Do you not know, brethren, (for I speak to them who know law,) that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? ² For the married woman is bound, by law, to her husband as long as he lives; but if the husband be dead, she is released from the law of her husband. ³ If, then, indeed, while her husband lives, she be married to another, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from the law; so that she is not an adulteress, though married to another husband. ⁴ Thus, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law, by the body of Christ, that you may be married to another, who rose from the dead, that we may bring forth fruit to God. ⁵ For when we were in the flesh, our sinful passions which were through the law, wrought effectually in our members, to bring forth fruit to death. ⁶ But now, having died with Christ, we are released from the law, by which we were held in bondage; so that we may serve God in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of the letter. ⁷ What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? By no means. Indeed, I had not known sin, except by the law. For I had not known even inordinate desire, unless the law had said, "You shall not lust." ⁸ But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of inordinate desire: for without the law sin is dead. ⁹ For I was alive, once, without the law: but when the commandment came, sin revived, but I died. ¹⁰ Yes, the commandment which was for live, the very same was found to be death to me. ¹¹ For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. ¹² Wherefore, the law is holy, and the commandment holy, just, and good. ¹³ Has, then, that which is good become death to me? By no means. But sin becomes death, in order that it might manifest itself, causing death to me by that which is good: so that sin, (through the commandment,) might be an exceedingly great sinner. ¹⁴ Besides, we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. ¹⁵ For that which I do, I do not approve; since it is not what I desire that I do: but I do that which I hate. ¹⁶ If, now, I do that which I do not desire, I consent to the law that it is good. ¹⁷ But now it is no longer I myself who do this; but sin which dwells in me. ¹⁸ For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, there dwells no good thing: for to desire what is good, is easy for me; but to do it, I find difficult. ¹⁹ For the good which I desire, that I do not: but the evil which I desire not, that I do. ²⁰ Now, if I do that which I do not desire, it is no longer I who do it; but sin, which dwells in me. ²¹ I find, then, that it is a law to me, when desirous to do good, that evil is near me. ²² For I take pleasure in the law of God, as to the inner man: ²³ but I perceive another law, in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and making me a captive to the law of sin, which is in my members. ²⁴ Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from this body of death? ²⁵ I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! Wherefore, then, indeed, I myself serve, with my mind, the law of God; but with the flesh, the law of sin.

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

⁵ For this you know, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor lascivious man, who is an idolater, has inheritance in the kingdom of Christ, and of God.

¹⁸ Flee uncleanness. Every sin which a man commits, is without the body: but he who commits uncleanness, sins against his own body.

² Nevertheless, on account of uncleanness, let every man have a wife of his own, and let every woman have her own husband.

¹ Now, concerning the things of which you wrote me: It is good for a man not to marry a woman. ² Nevertheless, on account of uncleanness, let every man have a wife of his own, and let every woman have her own husband. ³ Let the husband fulfill his obligations to his wife: and in like manner, also, the wife to the husband. ⁴ The wife has not the command of her own person, but the husband: and in like manner, also, the husband has not the command of his own person, but the wife. ⁵ Deprive not one another, unless, perhaps, by consent, for a time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; and do you come again together, that Satan may not tempt you through your incontinency. ⁶ But this which follows I speak as an advice, and not as an injunction, ⁷ that I wish all men to be as I myself am. However, each has a proper gift from God; one, indeed, after this manner, and another after that. ⁸ I say, to the unmarried men, and to the widows, it is good for them if they can remain even as I do. ⁹ Yet, if they can not live continently, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to be in pain. ¹⁰ Now, those who have married I charge, (yet not I, but the Lord;) let not a wife depart from her husband: ¹¹ but if she even depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband; and a husband must not put away his wife. ¹² But the rest I command, not the Lord; if any brother have an infidel wife, who herself is well pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. ¹³ And a woman who has an infidel husband, who himself is well pleased to dwell with her, let her not put him away. ¹⁴ For the infidel husband is sanctified by the wife, and the infidel wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise, certainly, your children were unclean; whereas, indeed, they are holy. ¹⁵ But if the infidel depart, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not in bondage with such; but God has called us to peace. ¹⁶ For how do you know, O wife! whether you shall save your husband? And how do you know, O husband! whether you shall save your wife? ¹⁷ But as God has distributed to every one, and as the Lord has called every one, so let him walk; and so, in all the congregations, I ordain. ¹⁸ Has any circumcised one been called? Let him not be uncircumcised. Has any one been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised. ¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. ²⁰ Let every one remain in the same calling in which he was called. ²¹ Were you called, being a bondman? Be not careful to be made free. Yet, if you can be made free, prefer it. ²² For a bondman, who is called by the Lord, is the Lord's freedman. In like manner, also, a freedman who is called, is Christ's bondman. ²³ You were bought with a price: become not the slaves of men. ²⁴ Brethren, in what state each one was called, in that let him remain with God. ²⁵ Now, concerning virgins, I have not a commandment of the Lord: but, I give my judgment, as having obtained mercy of the Lord, to be faithful. ²⁶ I declare this, then, to be good, on account of the present distress; namely, that it is good for a man who is unmarried, to continue so. ²⁷ Are you bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. ²⁸ And yet, if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned: nevertheless, affliction in the flesh such shall have; but I spare you. ²⁹ Now, this I say, brethren, the time being short, it remains that both they who have wives, should be as not having wives; ³⁰ and they who weep, as not weeping; and they who rejoice, as not rejoicing; and they who buy, as not possessing; ³¹ and they who use this world, as not abusing it: for the form of this world passes by. ³² Besides, I would have you without anxious care. The unmarried man anxiously cares for the things of the Lord; how he shall please the Lord. ³³ But he who is married, anxiously cares for the things of the world; how he shall please his wife. ³⁴ There is the like difference between the wife and the virgin. The unmarried woman anxiously cares for the things of the Lord; that she may be holy, both in body and spirit: but she who is married, anxiously cares for the things of the world; how she shall please her husband. ³⁵ Now, this I say, for your own benefit; not with a view to lay a snare for you, but for that which is becoming, and best adapted to a steady, uninterrupted adherence to the Lord. ³⁶ But if any one thinks he acts improperly toward his virgin, if she be above age, unmarried, and so needs to be married; let him do what she inclines, he does not sin: let such marry. ³⁷ But he who stands firm in his heart; not having necessity, and has power concerning his own will; and has determined this in his own heart, to keep his virgin, does well. ³⁸ So, then, even he who gives her in marriage, does well; but he who gives her not in marriage, does better. ³⁹ A wife is bound, as long as her husband lives; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she pleases; only in the Lord. ⁴⁰ But she is happier if she continue as she is. This is my opinion; and I think I have the Spirit of God.

⁴ Let marriage be honorable among all, and the bed unpolluted; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.