So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

And God blessed them, and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the flying creatures of the heavens, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.

And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.

Therefore a man, leaving his father and mother, and having cleaved to his wife, they are one flesh.

And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

Nor shall he profane his seed among his people, for I Jehovah sanctify him.

So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe. (She dwelt in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter.) And they spoke with her.

Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well.

Let them be only your own, and not for strangers with you.

as a loving deer and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times, and always be intoxicated in her love.

For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah, and He ponders all his tracks.

He shall die without instruction, and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

And I went in to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then Jehovah said to me, Call his name, Maher-shalal-hash-baz.

Nevertheless, because of sexual perversion, let each have his own wife, and let each have her own husband.

The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

But I say this by permission, not by commandment.

But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they remain even as I am;

Now to the married I command, yet not I but the Lord: A wife is not to leave her husband.

But to the rest I say, not the Lord: If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is willing to live with him, let him not send her away.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?

Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do also the other apostles, the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

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

one who rules his own house well, having his children in subjection with all respect

Let deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

Therefore I desire that the younger widows marry, bear children, manage the house, give no opportunity to the adversary for reproach.

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

that there be no prostitute or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food gave away his birthright.

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be led astray. Neither prostitutes, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, sexual perversion, uncleanness, licentiousness,

envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

For this you know, that no prostitute, unclean person, nor covetous person, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: sexual perversion, uncleanness, passion, evil lusts, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience;

But outside are dogs and sorcerers and prostitutes and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and produces a lie.

But to the wicked God says, What is it you do, to declare My Statutes, and to take up My Covenant in your mouth;

When you saw a thief, then you were pleased to be with him, and have been a partaker with adulterers.

You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.

Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against those swearing to a lie; and against those who defraud the hired laborer of his pay, and turn away the widow, and the fatherless, and the alien; and who do not fear Me, says Jehovah of Hosts.

But those who are outside God judges. Therefore put away from among yourselves the evil person.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.