But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.


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1 Corinthians 7 29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
1 Corinthians 7 38 So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.
1 Timothy 5 11 But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
1 Corinthians 7 2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
1 Corinthians 7 28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
Luke 20 34 And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:
1 Corinthians 7 10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
Luke 20 35 But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:
1 Corinthians 7 11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
Psalms 78 63 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
Ezra 10 3 Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.
Romans 12 9 Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
1 Corinthians 7 8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
Matthew 5 32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Hebrews 13 4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Numbers 5 3 Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell.
Deuteronomy 17 17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
Exodus 21 10 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
Song of Solomon 8 7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
1 Corinthians 7 36 But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
Matthew 19 9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Isaiah 47 14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.
Leviticus 20 14 And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.
1 Timothy 5 14 I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
Isaiah 1 31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
Matthew 19 10 His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.
Matthew 19 5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
Matthew 22 8 Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.
Matthew 5 27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
Ephesians 4 2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
1 Corinthians 7 27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
Deuteronomy 25 11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:
Mark 12 25 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.
1 Corinthians 7 12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
Jeremiah 29 6 Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.
Genesis 2 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Song of Solomon 8 6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Romans 13 10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
1 Corinthians 7 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
Numbers 36 6 This is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry.
Mark 10 11 And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
Matthew 24 12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
Mark 2 20 But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
Ephesians 5 31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Nehemiah 13 27 Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?
Numbers 6 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the LORD:
Numbers 30 13 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
Jeremiah 8 10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
1 Corinthians 7 32 But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: