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.”

⁵ “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be ^(A)a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those ^(B)who oppress the hired worker in his wages, ^(C)the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

^11 (A)One commits abomination with his neighbor's wife; ^(B)another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; ^(C)another in you violates his sister, his father's daughter.

²¹ Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to ^(A)your father's concubines, whom he has left to keep the house, and all Israel will hear that you have made yourself a stench to your father, and ^(B)the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.”

^9 (A)Why have you despised the word of the Lord, ^(B)to do what is evil in his sight? ^(C)You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and ^(D)have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. ¹⁰ Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’

³ And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, “Is not this ^(A)Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of ^(B)Uriah the Hittite?” ⁴ So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (^(C)Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house.