men and women living together
What does the Bible say about men and women living together? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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24For this reason, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife; and the two shall be as one flesh.
18Flee from fornication. Every sin whatsoever that a man commits is outside of the body, but whoever fornicates, sins against his own body.
18The Lord God also said: “It is not good for the man to be alone. Let us make a helper for him similar to himself.”
4May marriage be honorable in every way, and may the marriage bed be immaculate. For God will judge fornicators and adulterers.
30I am not able to do anything of myself. As I hear, so do I judge. And my judgment is just. For I do not seek my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
22You shall not commit sexual acts with a male, in place of sexual intercourse with a female, for this is an abomination.
9Therefore, it is better for two to be together, than for one to be alone. For they have the advantage of their companionship. 10If one falls, he shall be supported by the other. Woe to one who is alone. For when he falls, he has no one to lift him up. 11And if two are sleeping, they warm one another. How can one person alone be warmed?
31“For this reason, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife; and the two shall be as one flesh.”
10But to those who have been joined in matrimony, it is not I who commands you, but the Lord: a wife is not to separate from her husband. 11But if she has separated from him, she must remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband should not divorce his wife.
105Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my paths.
16Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and return here.” 17The woman responded and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her: “You have spoken well, in saying, ‘I have no husband.’ 18For you have had five husbands, but he whom you have now is not your husband. You have spoken this in truth.”
9Do you not know that the iniquitous will not possess the kingdom of God? Do not choose to wander astray. For neither fornicators, nor servants of idolatry, nor adulterers, 10nor the effeminate, nor males who sleep with males, nor thieves, nor the avaricious, nor the inebriated, nor slanderers, nor the rapacious shall possess the kingdom of God. 11And some of you were like this. But you have been absolved, but you have been sanctified, but you have been justified: all in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
25not deserting our assembly, as some are accustomed to do, but consoling one another, and even more so as you see that the day is approaching.
3But let not any kind of fornication, or impurity, or rapacity so much as be named among you, just as is worthy of the saints, 4nor any indecent, or foolish, or abusive talk, for this is without purpose; but instead, give thanks. 5For know and understand this: no one who is a fornicator, or lustful, or rapacious (for these are a kind of service to idols) holds an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 6Let no one seduce you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God was sent upon the sons of unbelief. 7Therefore, do not choose to become participants with them.
1And an Angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to the Place of Weeping, and he said: “I led you away from Egypt, and I led you into the land, about which I swore to your fathers. And I promised that I would not nullify my covenant with you, even forever: 2but only if you would not form a pact with the inhabitants of this land. Instead, you should overturn their altars. Yet you were not willing to listen to my voice. Why have you done this? 3For this reason, I am not willing to destroy them before your face, so that you may have enemies, and so that their gods may be your ruin.” 4And when the Angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, they lifted up their voice, and they wept. 5And the name of that place was called, the Place of Weeping, or the Place of Tears. And they immolated victims to the Lord in that place. 6Then Joshua dismissed the people, and the sons of Israel went away, each one to his own possession, so that they might obtain it.