An overseer then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober- minded, well ordered, hospitable, able to teach;

forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be partaken with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

If a man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of loose behavior or disobedience.

Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled; but prostitutes and adulterers God will judge.

But if the unbeliever leaves, let them leave; a brother or sister is not under bondage in such cases. But God has called us in peace.

A wife is bound by Law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

You have ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; you have ravished my heart with one look of your eyes, with the pendant around your neck.

How beautiful is your love, My sister, my spouse! How much better than wine is your love, and the scent of your ointments than all spices!

A bolted enclosed garden is my sister, my spouse; a spring locked up, a fountain sealed.

The Beloved: I have come to my garden, my sister, my spouse; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. To His Friends: Eat, O friends! Drink, yes, get drunk, O beloved ones!

Shulamite: I sleep, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my beloved! He knocks, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one; for my head is covered with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.

I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the church in Cenchrea,

older women as mothers, younger ones as sisters, with all purity.

While He was still talking to the multitudes, behold, His mother and brothers stood outside, seeking to speak with Him.

But He answered and said to the one who told Him, Who is My mother and who are My brothers?

For whoever does the will of My Father in Heaven, that one is My brother and sister and mother.

Is this not the carpenter's son? Is not His mother called Mary? And His brothers Jacob, Joses, Simon, and Judas?

Is this not the carpenter, the Son of Mary, and brother of Jacob, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And are not His sisters here with us? And they were offended at Him.

Matthew and Thomas; Jacob the son of Alphaeus, and Simon called the Zealot;

After this He went down to Capernaum, He, His mother, His brothers, and His disciples; and they stayed there not many days.

These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.

But I saw none of the other apostles except Jacob, the Lord's brother.

Now I say this, that each of you says, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ.

And when Jesus had come into Peter's house, He saw his wife's mother lying sick with a fever.

But Simon's wife's mother lay sick with a fever, and at once they told Him about her.

And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus looked at him, He said, You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas (which is translated, Peter).