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and Jesse the father of King David. David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah’s wife,
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and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, and Mary was the mother of Jesus who is called the Messiah.
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Joseph Accepts Jesus as His Son
This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.
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Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law, and yet did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly.
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But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
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When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife.
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Divorce
“It has been said, ‘Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.’
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But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her the victim of adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
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Jesus answered, “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while he is with them? The time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.
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Now Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,
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For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
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Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.
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Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?”
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and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?
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“Why then,” they asked, “did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”
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I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”
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The disciples said to him, “If this is the situation between a husband and wife, it is better not to marry.”
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And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.
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“Teacher,” they said, “Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.
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Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother.
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Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?”
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At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.
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For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark;
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The Parable of the Ten Virgins
“At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
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The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep.