Bible verses about "living together unmarried" | MNT

⁹ Then he began to tell the people this parable. "There was a man who planted a vineyard, and let it out to vine-dressers, and went to another country for a long time.

¹⁷ So there is a new creation when any man is in Christ. The old life has passed away, behold, the new is come.

²² Hold aloof from every form of evil.

⁹ "And I tell you that any man who divorces his wife for any cause except her unfaithfulness, and marries another woman, commits adultery."

¹⁶ "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever trusts in him should not perish, but have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.

¹⁶ Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and then come here." ¹⁷ "I have no husband," answered the woman. "You are right in saying 'I have no husband,'" Jesus said to her, ¹⁸ "for you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband; in this you have spoken truly."

¹⁸ "Every man who divorces his wife and marries some one else, commits adultery; and he who marries one who is put away by her husband commits adultery.

²⁰ "but that we should write to them to abstain from the pollution of idols and from fornication, from meat killed by strangling, and from blood.

⁸ But if any one fails to provide for his own, and especially for his kindred, he has denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.

¹ Surely, brothers, you know (for I am speaking to those who know what law means) that law governs a person only during his lifetime? ² For a married woman who has a husband is bound by law to her husband during his lifetime; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. ³ So then, if during her husband lifetime, she unites herself with another man, she will be counted an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the Law, so that she is no adulteress, even if she unites herself with another man. ⁴ So also, my brother, you were made dead to the Law through the body of Christ; that you should be joined to another, even to Him who was raised from the dead that we might bear fruit for God. ⁵ For while we were unspiritual, the sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were ever active in every part of our bodies, leading us to bear fruit unto death. ⁶ But now we have been released from the Law, because we are dead to that in which we were held; so that we are now in thralldom in new and spiritual conditions, and not under the old written code. ⁷ What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? Certainly not. On the contrary I should not have become acquainted with sin had it not been for the Law; for except the Law had repeatedly said, "Thou shalt not lust," I should never have known the sin of lust. ⁸ But when sin had gained a vantage-ground, by means of the commandment, it stirred up within me all manner of lust; for where there is no law, sin is dead. ⁹ Once I lived apart from the Law, myself; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died; ¹⁰ and the very commandment which should have meant life, this I found to mean death. ¹¹ For sin, when it had gained a vantage-ground through the commandment, beguiled me, and through it slew me. ¹² So then the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. ¹³ Did then that which was good become for me death? Never! but sin did; that it might be manifest as sin, by that the unutterable malignity of sin might become plain through the commandment. ¹⁴ For we know that the Law is spiritual; but as for me, I am a creature of flesh, bought and sold under the dominion of sin. ¹⁵ For what I perform I know not; what I practise is not what I intend to do, but what I detest, that I habitually do. ¹⁶ If then I habitually do what I do not intend to do, I am consenting to the Law, that it is right. ¹⁷ And now it is longer I myself who do the deed, but it is sin which has its home in me. ¹⁸ For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, no good thing has its home; for while to will is present with me, to carry out that which is right is not. ¹⁹ For the good that I intend to do, I do not; but the evil which I do not; but the evil which I do not intend to do, that I am ever practising. ²⁰ But if I do the very thing I do not intend to do, it is no more I who practise it, but sin which has its home in me. ²¹ I find, then, this law, that when I intend to do good, evil is ever present with me. ²² For in my inmost self I delight in the law of God; ²³ but I find a different law in my bodily faculties, waging war with the law of my will, and taking me prisoner to that law of sin which is in my bodily faculties. ²⁴ Oh, wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this slave of death? ²⁵ Oh, thank God! it is through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I myself in my will am in thralldom to the law of God; yet in my animal nature I am in thralldom to the law of sin.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are manifest; such, for instance, as fornication, impurity, indecency,

⁹ But if we confess our sins, faithful is he and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all wrong-doing.

⁵ For be well assured that no one guilty of fornication or impurity or covetousness which is idolatry, has any heritage in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

¹⁸ Flee from immorality. Every other sin that a man commits lies outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

² but because there is so much immorality let each man have his own wife; and let each women have her own husband.

¹ Now concerning the question in your letter. It is well for a man to have no intercourse with a woman, ² but because there is so much immorality let each man have his own wife; and let each women have her own husband. ³ Let the husband give his wife her due, and likewise the wife her husband. The wife is not mistress of her own person, ⁴ but her husband is; and in the same way the husband is not master of his own person, but his wife is. ⁵ Do not refuse one another, unless it is only temporary and by mutual consent, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, lest through your lack of self-control Satan begin to tempt you to sin. ⁶ But what I have just said is by way of concession, not command. ⁷ I would that every one lived as I do; but each man has his own special gift from God, one this, another that. ⁸ But to the unmarried, and the widows, I say that it is well for them to remain as I am. ⁹ If, however, they are not exercising self-control, by all means let them marry; for marriage is better than the fever of passion. ¹⁰ But to those already married my commandment is—and not mine, but the Lord's—that a wife is not to leave her husband; ¹¹ (or if she has already left him let her either remain as she is, or be reconciled to him), and also that a husband is not to put away his wife. ¹² To the rest it is I who am speaking, not the Lord. If any brother has a wife who is not a believer, if he is willing to live with her, let him not send her away. ¹³ And a woman whose husband is not a believer, if he is willing to live with her, let her not separate from him. ¹⁴ For the unbelieving husband is consecrated through union with his believing wife; and the unbelieving wife, through union with her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unholy, but now they are consecrated to God. ¹⁵ But if the unbelieving partner be determined to leave, separation let it be. In such cases the believing husband or wife is not under bondage. But it is into peace that God has called us. 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? ¹⁷ Only whatever be the lot in life to which God has assigned each one—and whatever the condition in which he was living when God called him—in that let him continue. Such is the rule I give in all the churches. ¹⁸ So, was any man called, being circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Was any man called when he was uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised. ¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God's commands in everything. ²⁰ Whatever be the condition of life in which he was called, in that let him continue. ²¹ Were you called in slavery? Let not that trouble you; but if you can become free make use of the opportunity. ²² For the slave who has been called in the Lord is the Lord's freedman; and in the same way, the free man who is called is Christ's slave. ²³ You have been brought with a price; do not become slaves to men. ²⁴ Where each man stood when he was called, there, brothers, let him stay, close to God. ²⁵ I have no command from the Lord to give you concerning unmarried women; but I give you my opinion, and it is that of a man who, through the Lord's mercy, is deserving of your confidence. ²⁶ I think then, that in view of the time of suffering now imminent, it is best for a man to remain as he is. ²⁷ Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from the marriage bond? Do not seek for a wife. ²⁸ Yet if you do not marry, you have not done wrong; and if a girl marries, she has not done wrong. Such people, however, will have trouble in worldly affairs, and I wish to spare you. ²⁹ Indeed, brothers, the time that remains to us has been shortened; so let those who have wives live as if they had none, ³⁰ let those who weep be as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, those who buy as though they did not possess, ³¹ and those who use the world as though using it sparingly. For the present phase of the world is passing away. ³² So I want you to be free from all anxieties. An unmarried man is anxious about the Lord's business, how he may please the Lord; ³³ but a married man is anxious about worldly affairs, how he may please his wife, and he is divided in his mind. ³⁴ Again, the woman who is widow, or the maid, is anxious about the Lord's business, how she may be pure in body and in mind; but the married woman is anxious about worldly affairs, how she may please her husband. ³⁵ It is in your own interest that I say this; not that I may entangle you in a snare, but that I may help you to serve the Lord with fitting and undistracted service. ³⁶ If, however, a father feels that he is not treating his virgin daughter in a seemly manner, in leaving her unmarried beyond the flower of her age, and so the matter is urgent, let him do what she desires; he commits no sin. Let the marriage take place. ³⁷ On the other hand, he who is firm in his purpose and is under no compulsion, but is free to carry out his own wishes, and who has determined to keep his daughter unmarried, does well. ³⁸ So he that gives his daughter in marriage is doing right, and he who keeps her unmarried will be doing right, and he who keeps her unmarried will be doing better. ³⁹ A wife is bound to her husband during his lifetime; but if her husband dies, she is free to marry whomever she will, provided it be in the Lord. ⁴⁰ But she is happier, in my judgment, if she remains as she is; and I think that I, too, have the Spirit of God.

⁴ Let marriage be held in honor by all, and the marriage bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.