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Bible Verses About shacking up
15 key scriptures
What does the Bible say about shacking up? Browse 15 carefully selected verses that illuminate this biblical theme.
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| Translation | Key Verse: 1 Corinthians 7:9 |
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| King James (KJV) | “But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.” |
15 Key Scriptures
“But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.”
“Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”
Hebrews 13:4KJV
“Nevertheless , to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.”
“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”
Genesis 2:24KJV
“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
Romans 12:2KJV
“Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.”
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;”
“But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.”
“Abstain from all appearance of evil.”
“But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.”
Romans 13:14KJV
“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 19:5KJV
“But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak. liberty: or, power”
“Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,”
“The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:”
John 4:17KJV
“And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:”
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