black and white marriage

¹⁹Observe my laws. You shall not cause your cattle to breed with other kinds of animals. You shall not sow your field with diverse seeds. You shall not be clothed with a garment which has been woven from two things.

²⁸There is neither Jew nor Greek; there is neither servant nor free; there is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.

²⁶And he has made, out of one, every family of man: to live upon the face of the entire earth, determining the appointed seasons and the limits of their habitation,

¹And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses, because of his wife, an Ethiopian,

³And you shall not associate with them in marriage. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor accept his daughter for your son.

¹My brothers, within the glorious faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, do not choose to show favoritism toward persons. ²For if a man has entered your assembly having a gold ring and splendid apparel, and if a poor man has also entered, in dirty clothing, ³and if you are then attentive to the one who is clothed in excellent apparel, so that you say to him, “You may sit in this good place,” but you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit below my footstool,” ⁴are you not judging within yourselves, and have you not become judges with unjust thoughts? ⁵My most beloved brothers, listen. Has not God chosen the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that God has promised to those who love him? ⁶But you have dishonored the poor. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you through power? And are not they the ones who drag you to judgment?

¹⁴Do not choose to bear the yoke with unbelievers. For how can justice be a participant with iniquity? Or how can the fellowship of light be a participant with darkness?

¹³If any man has slept with a male in place of sexual intercourse with a female, both have committed a nefarious act, they shall die a death. So let their blood be upon them.

¹And on the third day, a wedding was held in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. ²Now Jesus was also invited to the wedding, with his disciples. ³And when the wine was failing, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” ⁴And Jesus said to her: “What is that to me and to you, woman? My hour has not yet arrived.” ⁵His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” ⁶Now in that place, there were six stone water jars, for the purification ritual of the Jews, containing two or three measures each.

²³But also in those days, I saw some Jews taking wives from the Ashdodites, and the Ammonites, and the Moabites. ²⁴And their sons spoke partly in the speech of Ashdod, and they did not know how to speak the Jewish language, and they were speaking according to the language of one people or another. ²⁵And I put them under oath, and I cursed them. And I struck some of their men, and I shaved off their hair, and I made them swear to God that they would not give their daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for their sons, nor for themselves, saying: ²⁶“Did not Solomon, king of Israel, sin in this kind of thing? And certainly, among many nations, there was no king similar to him, and he was beloved of his God, and God set him as king over all of Israel. And yet foreign women led even him into sin! ²⁷So how could we disobey and do all this great evil, so that we would transgress against our God, and take foreign wives?”