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Zechariah asked the angel, “How can I be sure of this? I am an old man and my wife is well along in years.”
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After this his wife Elizabeth became pregnant and for five months remained in seclusion.
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But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch because of his marriage to Herodias, his brother’s wife, and all the other evil things he had done,
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Joanna the wife of Chuza, the manager of Herod’s household; Susanna; and many others. These women were helping to support them out of their own means.
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“If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple.
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“Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
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Remember Lot’s wife!
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“Truly I tell you,” Jesus said to them, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or sisters or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God
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“Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.
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Now then, at the resurrection whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?”
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Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
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Ananias and Sapphira
Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property.
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With his wife’s full knowledge he kept back part of the money for himself, but brought the rest and put it at the apostles’ feet.
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About three hours later his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.
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There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them,
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Several days later Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish. He sent for Paul and listened to him as he spoke about faith in Christ Jesus.
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Dealing With a Case of Incest
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father’s wife.
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But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband.
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The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.
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The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife.
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To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband.
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But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.
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To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If any brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her.
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For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.
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How do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or, how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
