Genesis 1:27-28
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27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
(A)male and female he created them.
28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, (B)“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
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Genesis 2:18
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18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; (A)I will make him a helper fit for[a] him.”
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- Genesis 2:18 Or corresponding to; also verse 20
Genesis 2:21-24
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21 So the Lord God caused a (A)deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. 22 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made[a] into a woman and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said,
“This at last is (B)bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
because she was (C)taken out of Man.”[b]
24 (D)Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
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- Genesis 2:22 Hebrew built
- Genesis 2:23 The Hebrew words for woman (ishshah) and man (ish) sound alike
Matthew 19:4-6
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4 He answered, (A)“Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, (B)‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and (C)the two shall become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. (D)What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
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Mark 10:5-8
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5 And Jesus said to them, “Because of your (A)hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. 6 But (B)from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them (C)male and female.’ 7 (D)‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,[a] 8 and (E)the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.
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- Mark 10:7 Some manuscripts omit and hold fast to his wife
Hebrews 13:4
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4 (A)Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge (B)the sexually immoral and adulterous.
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1 Corinthians 7:1-8
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Principles for Marriage
7 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: (A)“It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” 2 But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. 3 (B)The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. 4 For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 5 (C)Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, (D)so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
6 Now as a concession, (E)not a command, I say this.[a] 7 (F)I wish that all were (G)as I myself am. But (H)each has his own gift from God, (I)one of one kind and one of another.
8 To the unmarried and the widows I say that (J)it is good for them to remain single, (K)as I am.
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- 1 Corinthians 7:6 Or I say this:
Matthew 19:12
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12 For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs (A)for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let the one who is able to receive this receive it.”
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1 Corinthians 12:12-13
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One Body with Many Members
12 For just as (A)the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, (B)so it is with Christ. 13 For (C)in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—(D)Jews or Greeks, slaves[a] or free—and (E)all were made to drink of one Spirit.
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- 1 Corinthians 12:13 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface
Romans 12:10
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10 (A)Love one another with brotherly affection. (B)Outdo one another in showing honor.
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1 Timothy 5:1-2
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Instructions for the Church
5 (A)Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, (B)younger men as brothers, 2 older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.
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