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Topical Bible Verses

Hebrews 13:4
Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
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Romans 7:2
For the woman which has an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he lives; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
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Matthew 19:6
Why they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.
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Library

The Covenant of Grace
... This is a marriage covenant. "I am married to you, saith the Lord." Jeremiah
3:14. ... Before the marriage-covenant there must be a divorce. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/watson/a body of divinity/1 the covenant of grace.htm

Questions and Answers
... is equal to the responsibility, and as long as they continue to love each other
they will never have the slightest disposition to break that marriage covenant. ...
/.../byers/sanctification/chapter xii questions and answers.htm

Letter xviii. Marriage.
... 2. That the marriage covenant should be cemented by a principle of a peculiar kind,
will appear from the superiority of the soul over the body. ...
/.../a practical directory for young christian females/letter xviii marriage.htm

Covenant Duties.
... Covenant, present themselves before him.[257] In the marriage covenant husband and
wife bind themselves in the presence of God to the duties of that relation. ...
/.../cunningham/the ordinance of covenanting/chapter iv covenant duties.htm

Dorrelites.
... Those who are raised are free from all civil laws; are not bound by the marriage
covenant; and the perfect have a right to promiscuous intercourse. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/hayward/the book of religions/dorrelites.htm

In those Years I Taught Rhetoric, And, Overcome by Cupidity...
... one, remaining faithful even to her; in whom I in my own case experienced what
difference there is betwixt the self-restraint of the marriage-covenant, for the ...
/.../augustine/the confessions of saint augustine/chapter ii in those years.htm

Christ the Best Husband: or an Earnest Invitation to Young Women ...
... Jesus Christ, my dear sisters, doth choose you merely by his free grace; it is freely
of his own mercy, that he brings you into the marriage covenant: You, who ...
/.../whitefield/selected sermons of george whitefield/christ the best husband or.htm

Jesus as a Friend.
... "For better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health," runs the
marriage covenant. The covenant in all true friendship is the same. ...
/.../miller/personal friendships of jesus/chapter xv jesus as a.htm

The First Commandment
... After choice the marriage-covenant follows. As ... God looks upon it as breaking
the marriage-covenant, to go after other gods. Therefore ...
/.../watson/the ten commandments/2 1 the first commandment.htm

What Jesus Says of the Meaning of his Miracles
... hierarchy: "An evil and adulterous generation (that is, according to prophetical
phraseology; a generation which apostatized from the marriage covenant with God ...
//christianbookshelf.org/beth/the miracles of jesus/ii what jesus says of.htm