What Does the Bible Say About Initiate?

John 14:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Deuteronomy 24:1-4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house, and if she goes and becomes another man's wife, and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife, then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the Lord. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Romans 7:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress. Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. ...

Mark 2:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

Acts 4:32 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common.

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

Matthew 19:1-30 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there. And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? ...

Matthew 18:1-35 ESV / 1 helpful vote

At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, ...

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 1 helpful vote

But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Matthew 5:31 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’

Deuteronomy 24:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house,

Exodus 21:7-11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do. If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has broken faith with her. If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter. If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights. And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.

16 Bible Verses about Initiate

John 14:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 24:1-4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 7:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 2:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 4:32 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 19:1-30 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 18:1-35 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 5:31 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Deuteronomy 24:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Exodus 21:7-11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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16 Bible Verses about Initiate

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John 14:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 24:1-4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 7:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 2:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 4:32 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 19:1-30 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 18:1-35 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 5:31 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Deuteronomy 24:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Exodus 21:7-11 ESV / 1 helpful vote