Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?
He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of John. You shall be called Cephas” (which means Peter).
And when Jesus entered Peter's house, he saw his mother-in-law lying sick with a fever.
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
But I saw none of the other apostles except James the Lord's brother.
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.
I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.
All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.
if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination.
older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.
Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
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.
What I mean is that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” or “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.”
I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae,
After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother and his brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.
and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot,
Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.
Now Simon's mother-in-law lay ill with a fever, and immediately they told him about her.
Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?
While he was still speaking to the people, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, asking to speak to him. But he replied to the man who told him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”
I came to my garden, my sister, my bride, I gathered my myrrh with my spice, I ate my honeycomb with my honey, I drank my wine with my milk. Eat, friends, drink, and be drunk with love! I slept, but my heart was awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking. “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is wet with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.”
A garden locked is my sister, my bride, a spring locked, a fountain sealed.
You have captivated my heart, my sister, my bride; you have captivated my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace. How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!
who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
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