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I CREATOR-CAUSED EXISTENCE OF PRO-CREATIVE EROTIC HUMAN DESIRE
Genesis 1:26 Then God said: "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth."
27 So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said to them: "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."
Genesis 3:16 To the woman [God] said: "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you."
Exodus 31:17 It is a sign forever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day He rested, and was refreshed.
Isaiah 45:15 Truthfully you are a God who hides yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.
16 All of them are put to shame and confounded, the makers of idols go in confusion together.
17 But Israel is saved by the LORD with everlasting salvation; you shall not be put to shame or confounded to all eternity.
18 For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens (He is God!), who formed the earth and made it (He established it; He did not create it a chaos, He formed it to be inhabited!): "I am the LORD, and there is no other.
19 I did not speak in secret, in a land of darkness; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob: "Seek me in chaos." I the LORD speak the truth, I declare what is right.
First Corinthians 7:32 I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the affairs of the Lord, how to please the Lord;
33 but the married man is anxious about worldly affairs, how to please his wife,
34 and his interests are divided. And the unmarried woman or girl is anxious about the affairs of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit; but the married woman is anxious about worldly affairs, how to please her husband.
36 But if any man think that he is behaving improperty toward his virgin, if she pass the bloom of youth, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sins not: let them marry.
37 But whoever is firmly established in his heart, being under no necessity but having his desire under control, and has determined this in his heart, to keep her as his betrothed, he will do well.
38 So that he who marries his betrothed does well; and he who refrains from marriage will do better.
II CREATOR-INTENDED PURPOSE FOR PRO-CREATIVE EROTIC HUMAN DESIRE WITHOUT CONDOMS, CONTRACEPTIVES, AND ABORTION PREGNANCY PREVENTERS AND CHILDBIRTH PROHIBITORS
Genesis 4:1 Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying: "I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD."
Genesis 4:25 And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and called his name Seth, because she said: "God has appointed for me another child instead of Abel, for Cain slew him."
Genesis 19:30 Now Lot went up out of Zo'ar, and dwelt in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to dwell in Zo'ar; so he dwelt in a cave with his two daughters.
31 And the first-born said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth.
32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring through our father."
33 So they made their father drink wine that night; and the first-born went in, and lay with her father; he did not know when she lay down or when she got up.
34 And on the next day, the first-born said to the younger: "Hey, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve offspring through our father."
35 So they made their father drink wine that night also; and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down or when she got up.
36 Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father.
37 The first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.
38 The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi; he is the father of the Ammonites to this day.
Genesis 30:1 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister; and she said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I shall die!"
Genesis 38:1 It happened at that time that Judah went down from his brothers, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
2 There Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua; he married her and went in to her,
3 and she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Er.
4 Again she conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Onan.
5 Yet again she bore a son, and she called his name Shelah. She was in Chezib when she bore him.
6 And Judah took a wife for Er his first-born, and her name was Tamar.
7 But Er, Judah's first-born, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.
8 Then Judah said to Onan: "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother."
9 But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so when he went in to his brother's wife he spilled the semen on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother.
10 And what he did was displeasing in the sight of the LORD, and He slew him also.
11 Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law: "Remain a widow in your father's house, till Shelah my son grows up" because he feared that he would die, like his brothers. So Tamar went and lived in her father's house.
12 In course of time the wife of Judah, Shua's daughter, died; and when Judah was comforted, he went up to Timnah to his sheepshearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
13 And when Tamar was told: "Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,"
14 she put off her widow's garments, and put on a veil, wrapping herself up, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she had not been given to him in marriage.
15 When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a harlot, for she had covered her face.
16 He went over to her at the road side, and said: "Come, let me come in to you," for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said: "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"
17 He answered: "I will send you a kid from the flock." And she said: "Will you give me a pledge, till you send it?"
18 He said: "What pledge shall I give you?" She replied: "Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand." So he gave them to her, and went in to her, and she conceived by him.
19 Then she got up and went away, and taking off her veil she put on the garments of her widowhood.
24 About three months later Judah was told: "Tamar your daughter-in-law has played the harlot; and moreover she is with child by harlotry." And Judah said: "Bring her out, and let her be burned."
25 As she was being brought out, she sent word to her father-in-law: "By the man to whom these belong, I am with child." And she said: "Notice, I ask you, whose these are, the signet and the cord and the staff."
26 Then Judah acknowledged them and said: "She is more righteous than I, inasmuch as I did not give her to my son Shelah." And he did not lie with her again.
27 When the time of her delivery came, there were twins in her womb.
28 And when she was in labor, one put out a hand; and the midwife took and bound on his hand a scarlet thread, saying: "This came out first."
29 But as he drew back his hand, hey, his brother came out; and she said: "What a breach you have made for yourself!" Therefore his name was called Perez.
30 Afterward his brother came out with the scarlet thread upon his hand; and his name was called Zerah.
Mark 12:18 And Sad'ducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection; and they asked him a question, saying:
Mark 12:19 "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man must take the wife, and raise up children for his brother."
Romans 7:1 Do you not know, brethren...I am speaking to those who know the law...that the law is binding on a person only during his life?
2 Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives; but if her husband dies she is discharged from the law concerning the husband.
3 Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she belongs to another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies she is free from that law, and if she belongs to another man she is not an adulteress.
4 Likewise, my brethren, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.
Ruth 1:1 In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to travel in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.
2 The name of the man was Elim'elech and the name of his wife Na'omi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chil'ion; they were Eph'rathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there.
3 But Elim'elech, the husband of Na'omi, died, and she was left with her two sons.
4 These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years;
5 and both Mahlon and Chil'ion died, so that the woman was bereft of her two sons and her husband.
Ruth 4:13 So Bo'az took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and the LORD gave her conception, and she bore a son.
Ruth 4:14 Then the women said to Na'omi: "Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you this day without next of kin; and may his name be renowned in Israel!
First Corinthians 7:39 A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. If the husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.
First Corinthians 7:40 But in my judgment she is happier if she remains as she is. And I think that I have the Spirit of God.
First Samuel 25:36 And Ab'igail came to Nabal; and, wow, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; so she told him nothing at all until the morning light.
37 And in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
38 And about ten days later the LORD smote Nabal; and he died.
39 When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said: "Blessed be the LORD who has avenged the insult I received at the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil; the LORD has returned the evil-doing of Nabal upon his own head." Then David sent and wooed Ab'igail, to make her his wife.
40 And when the servants of David came to Ab'igail at Carmel, they said to her: "David has sent us to you to take you to him as his wife."
41 And she rose and bowed with her face to the ground, and said: "Hey, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord."
42 And Ab'igail hurried, got up, mounted a donkey, and her five maidens attended her; she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.
43 David also took Ahin'o-am of Jezreel; and both of them became his wives.
First Timothy 2:15 Yet woman will be saved by bearing children, if she continues in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.
First Timothy 5:14 So I would have younger women marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the enemy no cause to revile us.
III CREATOR-SOURCED PHENOMENA RELATING TO PRO-CREATIVE EROTIC HUMAN DESIRE
A. Gender Distinction and Separate Indigenous Gender Characteristics Involved with Pro-Creative Erotic Human Desire
Leviticus 15:16 If a man has an emission of semen, he shall bathe his whole body in water, and be unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 15:17 And every garment and every skin on which the semen comes shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 15:18 If a man lies with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them shall bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.
Deuteronomy 23:1 He whose testicles are crushed or whose male member is cut off shall not enter the assembly of the LORD.
Deuteronomy 25:11 When men fight against one another, and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him, and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts,
Deuteronomy 25:12 then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall have no pity.
Deuteronomy 28:56 The most tender and delicately bred woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will grudge to the husband of her bosom, to her son and to her daughter,
Deuteronomy 28:57 her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because she will eat them secretly, for want of all things, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.
Isaiah 66:10 Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her; rejoice with her in joy, all you who mourn over her;
Isaiah 66:11 that you may suck and be satisfied with her consoling breasts; that you may drink deeply with delight from the abundance of her glory."
Ezekiel 23:19 Yet she increased her harlotry, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the harlot in the land of Egypt
Ezekiel 23:20 and doted upon her paramours there, whose members were like those of mules, and whose issue was like that of horses.
Ezekiel 23:21 Thus you remembered the lewdness of your youth, When the Egyptians fondled your youthful breasts.
First Corinthians 11:8 Man was not made from woman, but woman from man.
9 Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.
10 That is why a woman ought to have a veil on her head, because of the angels.
11 Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman;
12 because as woman was made from man, so man is now born of woman. And all things are from God.
B. Human Nakedness and Initial Shameless Unawareness Thereof, then Embarrassed Awareness of Shameful Public Marital Nakedness, then Discretionary Marital Shamelessness of Private Spousal Nakedness Involved with Pro-Creative Erotic Human DesireGenesis 2:18 Then the LORD God said: "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him."IV CREATOR-PROVIDED OR ALLOWED MEANS TO FULFILL PRO-CREATIVE EROTIC HUMAN DESIRE
19 So out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
20 The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for the man there was not found a helper fit for him.
21 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh;
22 and the rib which the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
23 Then the man said: "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
24 Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh.
25 And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed.
Genesis 3:7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.
Leviticus 19:27 You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard.
Leviticus 19:28 You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh on account of the dead or tattoo any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 19:29 Do not profane your daughter by making her a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry and the land become full of wickedness.
Ezekiel 16:36 Thus says the Lord GOD, Because your shame was laid bare and your nakedness uncovered in your harlotries with your lovers, and because of all your idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them,
Ezekiel 16:37 therefore, hey, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and all those you loathed; I will gather them against you from every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
Hosea 2:3 ...lest I strip her naked and make her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a parched land, and slay her with thirst.
Second Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
Second Corinthians 5:1 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 Here indeed we groan, and long to put on our heavenly dwelling,
3 so that by putting it on we may not be found naked.
4 For while we are still in this tent, we sigh with anxiety; not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
5 He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
6 So we are always of good courage; we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, 7 for we walk by faith, not by sight.
8 We are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
9 So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please Him.
10 For we must all appear at the Judgment Seat of Christ, so that each one may receive good or evil, according to what they have done in the body.
Galatians 2:4 Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in...who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery...
Galatians 2:5 to them we did not yield submission even for a moment, that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you.
Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her,
Ephesians 5:26 that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
Ephesians 5:27 that He might present the church to Himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
A. Past, Present, and Future Permanent and Exclusive Heterosexual Monogamous MarriageV CREATOR-DESIGNATED REQUIREMENTS FOR FACILITATING PERMANENT HETEROSEXUAL MONOGAMOUS AND POLYGAMOUS MARRIAGE
Genesis 20:1 From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb, and lived between Kadesh and Shur; and he traveled in Gerar.
2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife: "She is my sister." And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him: "Hey, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken, becauser she is a man's wife."
4 Now Abimelech had not approached her; so he said: "Lord, will you slay an innocent people?
5 Did he not himself say to me: 'She is my sister'? And she herself said: 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this."
6 Then God said to him in the dream: "Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me; therefore I did not let you touch her.
7 Now then restore the man's wife, because he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you, and all that are yours."
8 So Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told them all these things; and the men were very much afraid.
9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him: "What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done."
10 And Abimelech said to Abraham: "What were you thinking of, that you did this thing?"
11 Abraham replied: "I did it because I thought: 'There is no fear of God at all in this place,' and they will kill me because of my wife.
12 Besides she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
14 Then Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and male and female slaves, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah his wife to him.
17 Then Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abimelech, and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children
18 because the LORD had closed all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
Genesis 26:9 So Abimelech called Isaac, and said: "Hey, she is your wife; how then could you say: 'She is my sister'?" Isaac replied to him: "Because I thought: 'Lest I die because of her.'"
Genesis 26:10 Abimelech said: "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us."
Genesis 26:11 So Abimelech warned all the people, proclaiming: "Whoever touches this man or his wife shall be put to death."
Proverbs 5:15 Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.
16 Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?
17 Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
18 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
19 a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight, be infatuated always with her love.
20 Why should you be infatuated, my son, with a loose woman and embrace the bosom of an adventuress?
21 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and He watches all his paths.
22 The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is caught in the labors of his sin.
23 He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great foolishness he is lost.
Song of Solomon 2:14 Oh my dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the covert of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet, and your face is attractive.
Song of Solomon 8:12 My vineyard, my very own, is for myself; you, Solomon, may have the thousand, and the keepers of the fruit two hundred.
Ezekiel 16:1 Again the word of the LORD came to me:
2 Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations,
3 and say: Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth are of the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite.
4 And as for your birth, on the day you were born your navel string was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor swathed with bands.
5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you out of compassion for you; but you were thrown out on the open field, for you were abhorred, on the day that you were born.
6 And when I passed by you, and saw you weltering in your blood, I said to you in your blood:, 'Live,
7 and grow up like a plant of the field.' And you grew up and became tall and arrived at full maidenhood; your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet you were naked and bare.
8 When I passed by you again and looked upon you, hey, you were at the age for love; and I spread my robe over you, and covered your nakedness: yes, I promised engagement to you and entered into a covenant with you," says the Lord GOD, "and you became mine."
Malachi 2:15 Has not the one God made and sustained for us the spirit of life? And what does He desire? Godly offspring. So you watch out, and let none be faithless to the wife of his youth.
First Corinthians 9:5 Do we not have the right to be accompanied by a wife, as the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?
Ephesians 5:31 For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."
B. Past, Present, and Future Permanent Female-Harem Heterosexual Polygamous Marriage
Genesis 4:19 And Lamech took two wives; the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
Genesis 22:23 Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
Genesis 22:24 Moreover, his concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
Genesis 25:6 But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living he sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the east country.
Genesis 28:9 Esau went to Ishmael and took to wife, besides the wives he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth.
Genesis 32:22 The same night [Jacob] arose and took his two wives, his two concubines, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
Deuteronomy 21:10 When you go forth to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God gives them into your hands, and you take them captive,
11 and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have desire for her and would take her for yourself as wife,
12 then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall shave her head and pare her nails.
13 And she shall put off her captive's garb, and shall remain in your house and bewail her father and her mother a full month; after that you may go in to her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
14 Then, if you have no delight in her, you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her for money, you shall not treat her as a slave, being that you have used her.
Deuteronomy 21:15 If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other disliked, and they have borne him children, both the loved and the disliked, and if the first-born son is hers that is disliked,
16 then on the day when he assigns his possessions as an inheritance to his sons, he may not treat the son of the loved as the first-born in preference to the son of the disliked, who is the first-born,
17 but he shall acknowledge the first-born, the son of the disliked, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the first issue of his strength; the right of the first-born is his.
Judges 8:30 Now Gideon had seventy sons, his own offspring, because he had many wives.
First Samuel 1:1 There was a certain man of Ramathaimzophim of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.
First Samuel 1:2 He had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
Second Samuel 2:2 So David went up there, and his two wives also, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel.
Second Samuel 5:13 And David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron; and more sons and daughters were born to David.
First Kings 11:3 [Solomon] had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
First Chronicles 2:46 Ephah also, Caleb's concubine, bore Haran, Moza, and Gazez; and Haran was the father of Gazez.
First Chronicles 2:48 Maacah, Caleb's concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah.
First Chronicles 4:5 Ashhur, the father of Tekoa, had two wives, Helah and Naarah
Second Chronicles 11:21 Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and concubines. He took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and had twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters
Second Chronicles 13:21 But Abijah grew mighty. And he took fourteen wives, and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
Second Chronicles 24:2 And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
Second Chronicles 24:3 Jehoiada got for him two wives, and he had sons and daughters.
Ecclesiastes 2:8 I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces; I got singers, both men and women, and many concubines, man's delight.
Ezekiel 23:4 Oholah was the name of the elder and Oholibah the name of her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
Daniel 5:3 Then they brought in the golden and silver vessels which had been taken out of the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.
Hosea 3:1 And the LORD said to me: "Go again, love a woman who is beloved of a paramour and is an adulteress; even as the LORD loves the people of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins."
Hosea 3:2 So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.
Hosea 3:3 And I said to her: "You must stay mine for many days; you shall not play the harlot, or belong to another man; so will I also be to you."
Romans 7:3 Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she belongs to another man while her husband is alive...
First Corinthians 7:10 To the married I give charge, not I but the Lord, that the wife should not separate from her husband
First Corinthians 7:11 but if she does, let her remain single or else be reconciled to her husband and that the husband should not divorce his wife.
First Corinthians 7:39 A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives...
First Timothy 3:2 Now a bishop must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, dignified, hospitable, an apt teacher...
First Timothy 3:12 Let deacons be the husband of one wife, and let them manage their children and their households well...
A. Virginal Chastity, and Lethal Punishment for Non-Compliance Against SuchVI CREATOR-FORBIDDEN MEANS OF ATTEMPTING TO FULFILL EROTIC HUMAN DESIRE
Leviticus 21:10 The priest who is chief among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and who has been consecrated to wear the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose, nor rend his clothes;
11 he shall not go in to any dead body, nor defile himself, even for his father or for his mother;
12 neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD.
13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
14 A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a harlot, these he shall not marry; but he shall take to wife a virgin of his own people,
15 that he may not profane his children among his people, becauser I am the LORD who sanctify him."
Deuteronomy 22:13 If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and then spurns her,
14 and charges her with shameful conduct, and brings an evil name upon her, saying: "I took this woman, and when I came near her, I did not find in her the tokens of virginity,"
15 then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring out the tokens of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate;
16 and the father of the young woman shall say to the elders: "I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he spurns her;
17 and wow, he has made shameful charges against her, stating: "I did not find in your daughter the tokens of virginity." "And yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity." And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.
18 Then the elders of that city shall take the man and whip him;
19 and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought an evil name upon a virgin of Israel; and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
20 But if the thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young woman,
21 then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has wrought folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father's house; so you shall purge the evil from among you.
Deuteronomy 22:22 If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman; so you shall purge the evil from Israel.
23 If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her,
24 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor's wife; so you shall purge the evil from the midst of you.
25 But if in the open country a man meets a young woman who is betrothed, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.
26 But to the young woman you shall do nothing; in the young woman there is no offense punishable by death, for this case is like that of a man attacking and murdering his neighbor;
27 because he came upon her in the open country, and though the betrothed young woman cried for help there was no one to rescue her.
Song of Solomon 4:12 A garden locked is my sister, my bride, a garden locked, a fountain sealed.
B. Adequate Clothing and Modesty in Public, and Lethal Punishment for Non-Compliance Against Such
Genesis 3:7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.
8 And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
9 But the LORD God called to the man, and said to him: "Where are you?"
10 And he replied: "I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."
11 [God] said: "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?"
12 The man said: "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate."
13 Then the LORD God said to the woman: "What is this that you have done?" The woman replied: "The serpent beguiled me, and I ate."
14 The LORD God said to the serpent: "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above all wild animals; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.
15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel."
16 To the woman He said: "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall birth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you."
17 And to Adam he said: "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you: 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in labor you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.
19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
20 The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
21 And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins, and clothed them.
Numbers 5:11 And the LORD said to Moses:
12 Say to the people of Israel: "If any man's wife goes astray and acts unfaithfully against him,
13 if a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, being that she was not taken in the act;
14 and if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him, and he is jealous of his wife who has defiled herself; or if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him, and he is jealous of his wife, though she has not defiled herself;
18 And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and unbind the hair of the woman's head...
Leviticus 18:8 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness.
9 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home or born abroad.
10 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son's daughter or of your daughter's daughter, for their nakedness is your own nakedness.
11 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, begotten by your father, she is your sister.
12 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister; she is your paternal aunt.
13 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for she is your maternal aunt.
14 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, that is, you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.
15 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness.
16 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; she is your brother's nakedness.
17 You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, and you shall not take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are your near kinswomen; it is wickedness.
18 And you shall not take a woman as a rival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is yet alive.
19 You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.
Deuteronomy 32:42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh...with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the long-haired heads of the enemy.
Second Samuel 13:18 Now she was wearing a full-length long-sleeved gown, because that was what the virgin daughters of the king traditionally wore. So his servant put her out, and bolted the door after her.
Second Samuel 13:19 And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent the full-length long-sleeved gown which she wore; and she laid her hand on her head, and went away, crying aloud as she went.
Song of Solomon 7:1 How graceful are your footsteps, royal maiden! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand.
2 Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with lilies.
3 Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
4 Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rab'bim. Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon, overlooking Damascus.
5 Your head crowns you like Carmel, and your flowing locks are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses.
6 How fair and pleasant you are, oved one, delectable maiden!
7 You are stately as a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.
8 I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its branches. Oh, may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples,
9 and your kisses like the best wine that goes down smoothly, flowing gently over the lips of sleepers.
10 I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me.
11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the fields, and lodge in the villages;
12 let us go out early to the vineyards, and see whether the vines have budded, whether the grape blossoms have opened and the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love.
13 The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and over our doors are all choice fruits, new as well as old, which I have laid up for you, my beloved.
Isaiah 3:16 The LORD said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, jangling with their feet;
Isaiah 3:17 the Lord will smite with a scab the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will lay bare their secret parts.
Isaiah 20:3 the LORD said: "As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and a portent against Egypt and Ethiopia,
Isaiah 20:4 so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians captives and the Ethiopians exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
Isaiah 47:1 Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chalde'ans! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
Isaiah 47:2 Take the millstones and grind meal, put off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers.
Isaiah 47:3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered, and your shame shall be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will spare no person.
Jeremiah 2:20 "For long ago you broke your yoke and burst your bonds; and you bellered out: "I will not serve." Yes, upon every high hill and under every green tree you bowed down as a harlot.
21 Yet I planted you a choice vine, completely of pure seed. How then have you turned degenerate and become a wild vine?
22 Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still in front of me," says the Lord GOD.
23 How can you say: "I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Ba'als"? Look at your way in the valley; know what you have done: a restive young camel criss-crossing her tracks,
24 a wild donkey used to the desert, in her heat sniffing the wind! Who can restrain her lust? None who seek her need weary themselves; in her month they will find her.
25 Keep your feet from going unshod and your throat from thirst. But you said: "It is hopeless, for I have loved strangers, and after them I will go."
Revelation 21:8 But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion shall be in The Lake that burns with Fire and Brimstone, which is the Second Death."
Revelation 22:14 Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates. Revelation 22:15 Outside are dogs and sorcerers and fornicators and murderers and idolaters, and every one who loves and practices falsehood.
C. Courtship-Encouraging Matchmakers for Permanent Heterosexual Monogamous and Polygamous Marriage
Genesis 24:1 Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years; and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.
2 And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his house, who had charge of all that he had, "Put your hand under my thigh,
3 and I will make you promise by the LORD, the God of heaven and of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell,
4 but will go to my country and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac."
5 The servant said to him: "Perhaps the woman may not be willing to follow me to this land; must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?"
6 Abraham said to him: "See to it that you do not take my son back there.
7 The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and who spoke to me and promised me: "To your descendants I will give this land," He will send His angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
8 But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this oath of mine; only you must not take my son back there."
9 So the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and promised him concerning this matter.
10 Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and departed, taking all sorts of choice gifts from his master; and he got up, and went to Mesopota'mia, to the city of Nahor.
11 And he made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time when women go out to draw water.
12 And he said: "LORD, God of my master Abraham, grant me success today, I pray you, and show continual love to my master Abraham.
13 Hey, I am standing by the spring of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.
14 Let the maiden to whom I shall say: "Please let down your jar that I may drink," and who shall reply: "Drink, and I will water your camels" --let her be the one whom you have appointed for thy servant Isaac. By this I shall know that you have shown continual love to my master."
15 Before he was done speaking, hey, Rebekah, who was born to Bethu'el the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with her water jar upon her shoulder.
16 The maiden was very fair to look upon, a virgin, whom no man had known. She went down to the spring, and filled her jar, and came up.
17 Then the servant ran to meet her, and said: "Please give me a little water to drink from your jar."
18 She replied: "Drink, my lord"; and she quickly let down her jar upon her hand, and gave him a drink.
19 When she had finished giving him a drink, she said: "I will draw for your camels also, until they are done drinking."
20 So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran again to the well to draw, and she drew for all his camels.
21 The man gazed at her in silence to learn whether the LORD had prospered his journey or not.
22 When the camels were done drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half shekel, and two bracelets for her arms weighing ten gold shekels,
23 and said: "Tell me whose daughter you are. Is there room in your father's house for us to lodge in?"
24 She replied to him: "I am the daughter of Bethu'el the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor."
25 She added: "We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in."
26 The man bowed his head and worshiped the LORD,
27 and said: "Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not rejected His continual love and His faithfulness toward my master. As for me, the LORD has led me in the way to the house of my master's relatives."
28 Then the maiden ran and told her mother's household about these things.
29 Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban; and Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.
30 When he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister's arms, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister: "Thus the man spoke to me," he went to the man; and hey, he was standing by the camels at the spring.
31 He exclaimed: "Come in, blessed of the LORD; why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house and a place for the camels."
32 So the man came into the house; and Laban ungirded the camels, and gave him straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.
33 Then food was set before him to eat; but he said: "I will not eat until I have told my errand." Laban said: "Speak on."
34 So he said: "I am Abraham's servant.
35 The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become great; He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, menservants and maidservants, camels and donkeys.
36 And Sarah my master's wife bore a son to my master when she was old; and to him he has given all that he has.
37 My master made me promise, saying: "You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I reside;
38 but you shall go to my father's house and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son."
39 I said to my master: "Perhaps the woman will not follow me."
40 But he replied to me: "The LORD, before whom I walk, will send His angel with you and prosper your way; and you shall take a wife for my son from my relatives and from my father's house;
41 then you will be free from my oath, when you come to my relatives; and if they will not give her to you, you will be free from my oath."
42 I came today to the spring, and prayed: "LORD, God of my master Abraham, if now you will prosper the way which I go,
43 hey, I am standing by the spring of water; let the young woman who comes out to draw, to whom I shall say: "Please give me a little water from your jar to drink,"
44 and who will say to me: "Drink, and I will draw for your camels also," let her be the woman whom the LORD has appointed for my master's son."
45 Before I was done speaking in my heart, hey, Rebekah came out with her water jar on her shoulder; and she went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her: "Please let me drink."
46 She quickly let down her jar from her shoulder, and said: "Drink, and I will give your camels drink also." So I drank, and she gave the camels drink also.
47 Then I asked her: "Whose daughter are you?" She replied: "The daughter of Bethu'el, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him." So I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her arms.
48 Then I bowed my head and worshiped the LORD, and blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me by the right way to take the daughter of my master's relative for his son.
49 Now then, if you will deal loyally and truly with my master, tell me; and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand or to the left."
50 Then Laban and Bethu'el answered: "The thing comes from the LORD; we cannot speak to you bad or good.
51 Hey, Rebekah is here, take her and go, and let her be the wife of your master's son, as the LORD has spoken."
52 When Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself to the earth before the LORD.
53 And the servant brought forth jewelry of silver and of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave to her brother and to her mother costly ornaments.
54 And he and the men who were with him ate and drank, and they spent the night there. When they got up in the morning, he said: "Send me back to my master."
55 Her brother and her mother said: "Let the maiden remain with us a while, at least ten days; after that she may go."
56 But he said to them: "Do not delay me, being that the LORD has prospered my way; let me go that I may go to my master."
57 They said: "We will call the maiden, and ask her."
58 And they called Rebekah, and said to her: "Will you go with this man?" She replied: "I will go."
59 So they sent away Rebekah their sister and her nurse, and Abraham's servant and his men.
60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said to her: "Our sister, be the mother of thousands of ten thousands; and may your descendants possess the gate of those who hate them!"
61 Then Rebekah and her maids arose, and rode upon the camels and followed the man; thus the servant took Rebekah, and went his way.
62 Now Isaac had come from Beer-la'hai-roi, and was residing in the Negeb.
63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field in the evening; and he lifted up his eyes and looked, and hey, there were camels coming.
64 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she got off the camel,
65 and asked the servant: "Who is the man over there, walking in the field to meet us?" The servant replied: "It is my master." So she took her veil and covered herself.
66 And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.
67 Then Isaac brought her into the tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
Genesis 29:9 While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, because she tended them.
10 Now when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, Jacob went up and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.
11 Then Jacob kissed Rachel, and wept out loud.
12 And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's relative, and that he was Rebekah's son; and she ran and told her father.
13 When Laban heard the news of Jacob his sister's son, he ran to meet him, and embraced him and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things,
14 and Laban said to him: "Surely you are my bone and my flesh!" And he stayed with him a month.
15 Then Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?"
16 Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
17 Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful and lovely.
18 Jacob loved Rachel; and he said: "I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel."
19 Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me."
20 So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.
21 Then Jacob said to Laban: "Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is completed."
22 So Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
23 But in the evening he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob; and he went in to her.
24 Laban gave his maid Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her maid.
25 And in the morning, hey, it was Leah; and Jacob said to Laban: "What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"
26 Laban said: "It is not so done in our country, to give the younger before the first-born.
27 Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also in return for serving me another seven years."
28 Jacob did so, and completed her week; then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel for wife.
29 Laban gave his maid Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her maid.
30 So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban for another seven years.
31 When the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
32 And Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben, because she said: "Because the LORD has looked upon my affliction; surely now my husband will love me."
33 She conceived again and bore a son, and said: "Because the LORD has heard that I am hated, He has given me this son also"; and she called his name Simeon.
34 Again she conceived and bore a son, and said: "Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons"; therefore his name was called Levi.
35 And she conceived again and bore a son, and said: "This time I will praise the LORD"; therefore she called his name Judah; then she ceased bearing.
Ruth 3:1 Then Na'omi her mother-in-law said to her: "My daughter, should I not seek a home for you, that it may be well with you?
2 Now is not Bo'az our relative, with whose maidens you were? See, he is winnowing barley tonight at the threshing floor.
3 Wash therefore and anoint yourself, and put on your best clothes and go down to the threshing floor; but do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.
4 But when he lies down, observe the place where he lies; then, go and uncover his feet and lie down; and he will tell you what to do."
5 And she replied: "All that you say I will do."
6 So she went down to the threshing floor and did just as her mother-in-law had told her.
7 And when Bo'az had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. Then she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and lay down.
8 At midnight the man was startled, and turned over, and hey, a woman lay at his feet!
9 He said: "Who are you?" And she answered: "I am Ruth, your maidservant; spread your robe over your maidservant, for you are next of kin."
10 And he said: "May you be blessed by the LORD, my daughter; you have made this last kindness greater than the first, in that you have not gone after young men, whether poor or rich.
11 And now, my daughter, do not fear, I will do for you all that you ask, for all my fellow townsmen know that you are a woman of worth.
12 And now it is true that I am a near relative, yet there is a relative nearer than I.
13 Remain this night, and in the morning, if he will do the part of the next of kin for you, well; let him do it; but if he is not willing to do the part of the next of kin for you, then, as the LORD lives, I will do the part of the next of kin for you. Lie down until the morning."
14 So she lay at his feet until the morning, but got up before one could recognize another; and he said: "Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor."
15 And he said: "Bring the mantle you are wearing and hold it out." So she held it, and he measured out six measures of barley, and laid it upon her; then she went into the city.
16 And when she came to her mother-in-law, she said: "How did you fare, my daughter?" Then she told her all that the man had done for her,
17 saying: "These six measures of barley he gave to me, because he said: 'You must not go back empty-handed to your mother-in-law.'"
18 She replied: "Wait, my daughter, until you learn how the matter turns out, for the man will not rest, but will settle the matter today."
First Samuel 18:17 Then Saul said to David: "Here is my elder daughter Merab; I will give her to you for a wife; only be valiant for me and fight the LORD'S battles," because Saul thought: "Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him."
18 And David said to Saul: "Who am I, and who are my relatives, my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?"
19 But at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to A'driel the Meho'lathite for a wife.
20 Now Saul's daughter Michal loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
21 Saul thought: "Let me give her to him, that she may be a snare for him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him." Therefore Saul said to David a second time: "You shall now be my son-in-law."
25 Then Saul said: "Thus shall you say to David: 'The king desires no marriage present except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, that he may be avenged of the king's enemies.'" Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
26 And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law. Before the time had expired,
27 David got up and went, along with his men, and killed two hundred of the Philistines; and David brought their foreskins, which were given in full number to the king, that he might become the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him his daughter Michal for a wife.
A. Evolution Leading to Immentality of Animalistic HedonismVII PROPHESIED RECONFIGURED EROTIC HUMAN DESIRE IN ETERNAL PERPETUITY
Genesis 1:11 And God said: "Let the earth put forth vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, upon the earth." And it was so.
12 The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
13 And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.
14 And God said: "Let there be lights in the sky of the heavens to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years,
15 and let them be lights in the sky of the heavens to give light upon the earth." And it was so.
16 And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; He made the stars also.
17 And God set them in the sky of the heavens to give light upon the earth,
18 to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
19 And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
20 And God said: "Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the sky of the heavens."
21 So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
22 And God blessed them, saying: "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
23 And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
24 And God said: "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds." And it was so.
25 And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the cattle according to their kinds, and everything that creeps upon the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Leviticus 11:1 And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron:
2 Say to the people of Israel: "These are the living things which you may eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.
3 Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.
12 Everything in the waters that has not fins and scales is an abomination to you.
13 And these you shall have in abomination among the birds, they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,
14 the kite, the falcon according to its kind,
15 every raven according to its kind,
16 the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk according to its kind,
17 the owl, the cormorant, the ibis,
18 the water hen, the pelican, the carrion vulture,
19 the stork, the heron according to its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.
20 All winged insects that go upon all fours are an abomination to you.
21 Yet among the winged insects that go on all fours you may eat those which have legs above their feet, with which to leap on the earth.
22 Of them you may eat: the locust according to its kind, the bald locust according to its kind, the cricket according to its kind, and the grasshopper according to its kind.
23 But all other winged insects which have four feet are an abomination to you.
29 And these are unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm upon the earth: the weasel, the mouse, the great lizard according to its kind,
30 the gecko, the land crocodile, the lizard, the sand lizard, and the chameleon.
Job 9:1 Then Job answered:
2 "Truthfully I know that it is so: But how can a man be just before God?
3 If one wished to contend against Him, one could not answer Him once in a thousand times.
4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength -- who has hardened himself against Him, and succeeded?
9 who made the Bear and Orion, the Plei'ades and the chambers of the south;
10 who does great things beyond understanding, and marvelous things without number."
Job 11:12 But a stupid man will get understanding, when a wild donkey's colt is born a man.
Proverbs 3:19 The LORD by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding he established the heavens;
Isaiah 44:24 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: "I am the LORD, who made all things, who stretched out the heavens alone, who spread out the earth -- Who was with me? --
Isaiah 44:25 who frustrates the omens of liars, and makes fools of diviners; who turns wise men back, and makes their knowledge foolish;
Isaiah 44:26 who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem: 'She shall be inhabited,' and of the cities of Judah: 'They shall be built, and I will raise up their ruins.'
Isaiah 45:18 For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens (He is God!), who formed the earth and made it (He established it; He did not create it a chaos, He formed it to be inhabited!): "I am the LORD, and there is no other.
Amos 5:6 Seek the LORD and live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, with none to quench it for Bethel,
7 Oh you who turn justice to wormwood, and throw down righteousness to the earth!
8 He who made the Plei'ades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the surface of the earth, the LORD is His name,
12 Because I know how many are your transgressions, and how great are your sins: you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate.
13 Therefore he who is prudent will keep silent in such a time, because it is an evil time.
14 Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the LORD, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said.
15 Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the LORD, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
B. Feminist Sexism as Hostile-to-Patriarchy, Arrogantly-Insubordinate, Anti-Realistic, Confrontational, and Adversarially-Competitive Deterrent Against Heterosexual Erotic Human Desire and Marriage
Genesis 3:13 Then the LORD God said to the woman: "What is this that you have done?" The woman replied: "The serpent beguiled me, and I ate."
Genesis 3:17 And to Adam [God] said: "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you: 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in labor you shall eat of it all the days of your life
Numbers 5:31 The man shall be free from iniquity, but the woman shall bear her iniquity."
Esther 1:10 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehu'man, Biztha, Harbo'na, Bigtha and Abag'tha, Zethar and Carkas, the seven eunuchs who served King Ahasu-e'rus as chamberlains,
11 to bring Queen Vashti before the king with her royal crown, in order to show the peoples and the princes her beauty; for she was fair to view and consider.
12 But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king's command conveyed by the eunuchs. At this the king was enraged, and his anger burned within him.
13 Then the king said to the wise men who knew the times -- because this was the king's procedure toward all who were versed in law and judgment,
14 the men next to him being Carshe'na, Shethar, Adma'tha, Tarshish, Meres, Marse'na, and Memu'can, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king's face, and sat first in the kingdom --
15 "According to the law, what is to be done to Queen Vashti, because she has not performed the command of King Ahasu-e'rus conveyed by the eunuchs?"
16 Then Memu'can said in presence of the king and the princes: "Not only to the king has Queen Vashti done wrong, but also to all the princes and all the peoples who are in all the provinces of King Ahasu-e'rus.
17 For this deed of the queen will be made known to all women, causing them to look with contempt upon their husbands, being that they will say: 'King Ahasu-e'rus commanded Queen Vashti to be brought before him, and she did not come.'
18 This very day the ladies of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen's behavior will be telling it to all the king's princes, and there will be contempt and wrath in plenty.
19 If it please the king, let a royal order go forth from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes so that it may not be altered, that Vashti is to come no more before King Ahasu-e'rus; and let the king give her royal position to another who is better than she.
Proverbs 21:9 It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a contentious woman.
Proverbs 21:19 It is better to live in a desert land than with a contentious and fretful woman.
Proverbs 25:24 It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a contentious woman.
Proverbs 27:15 A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
Ecclesiastes 7:25 I turned my mind to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the sum of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness which is madness.
26 And I found more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters; he who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.
27 "Hey, this is what I found," says the Preacher, "adding one thing to another to find the sum,
28 which my mind has sought repeatedly, but I have not found. One man among a thousand I found, but a woman among all these I have not found.
29 Hey, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many devices.
Isaiah 3:12 My people: children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. Oh my people, your leaders mislead you, and confuse the course of your paths.
Micah 7:5 Put no trust in a neighbor, have no confidence in a friend; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom.
Nahum 3:12 All your fortresses are like fig trees with first-ripe figs: if shaken they fall into the mouth of the eater.
Nahum 3:13 Hey, your troops are women around you. The gates of your land are wide open to your foes; fire has devoured your fortresses.
Matthew 7:6 "Do not give dogs what is holy; and do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under foot and turn to attack you."
Matthew 15:23 But [Jesus] did not answer her a word. And His disciples came and begged Him, imploring: "Send her away, for she is crying after us."
Matthew 15:26 And He answered: "It is not fair to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."
First Corinthians 6:5 I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no man among you wise enough to decide between members of the brotherhood...?
First Corinthians 14:33 For God is not a God of confusion but of peace.
34 As in all the churches of the saints, the women must keep silence in the churches. For they are not allowed to speak, but should be subordinate, as even the law says.
35 If there is anything they desire to know, let them ask their husbands at home, because it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.
36 What? Did the word of God originate with you, or are you the only ones it has reached?
37 If any one thinks that he is a prophet, or spiritual, he should acknowledge that what I am writing to you is a command of the Lord.
38 If any one does not recognize this, they are not recognized.
First Timothy 2:11 Have a woman learn in silence with all subjection.
12 I allow no woman to teach or to have authority over men; she is to keep silent.
13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve;
14 and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.
First Peter 3:7 Likewise you husbands, live considerately with your wives, bestowing honor on the woman as the weaker vessel, being that you are joint heirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers be not hindered.
C. Same-Gender Homosexuality, and Related Transvestite/Transsexual/Transgendered Reaction-Against-Chauvinistic-Feminism Atheism/Agnosticism-Type Defiance Against Heterosexual Erotic Human Desire and Marriage
Leviticus 18:22 You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.
23 And you shall not lie with any beast and defile yourself with it, neither shall any woman give herself to a beast to lie with it: it is perversion.
24 Do not defile yourselves by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am throwing out before you defiled themselves;
25 and the land became defiled, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
26 But you shall keep my statutes and my ordinances and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who travels among you
27 for all of these abominations the men of the land did, who were before you, so that the land became defiled;
28 lest the land vomit you out, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
29 For whoever shall do any of these abominations, the persons that do them shall be cut off from among their people.
30 So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs which were practiced before you, and never to defile yourselves by them: I am the LORD your God."
Leviticus 20:13 If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them.
Deuteronomy 22:5 A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman's garment; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God.
Romans 1:18 The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all godlessness and wickedness of those who by their wickedness suppress the truth.
19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
20 Ever since the creation of the world His invisible nature, namely, His eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse;
21 for although they knew God they did not honor Him as God or give thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and their senseless minds were darkened.
22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man or birds or animals or reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever! Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural,
27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error.
First Corinthians 6:9 Do you not know that the non-righteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,
First Corinthians 6:10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God.
First Timothy 1:8 Now we know that the law is good, if any one uses it lawfully,
9 understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for godless and sinners, for non-holy and profane, for those who murder fathers and mothers, for manslayers,
10 immoral persons, sodomites, kidnappers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,
11 in accord with the glorious gospel of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.
D. Fornication, Voluntary or Involuntary - as by Massage or Escort Harlotry, Prostitution, Rape or Incest
Genesis 34:1 Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land;
2 and when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and humbled her.
3 And his soul was drawn to Dinah the daughter of Jacob; he loved the maiden and spoke tenderly to her.
4 So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying: "Get me this maiden for my wife."
5 Now Jacob heard that he had defiled his daughter Dinah; but his sons were with his cattle in the field, so Jacob held his peace until they came.
6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him.
7 The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard of it; and the men were indignant and very angry, because he had wrought folly in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, for such a thing ought not to be done.
8 But Hamor spoke with them, saying: "The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter; I implore you, give her to him in marriage.
9 Make marriages with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
10 You shall reside with us; and the land shall be open to you; live and trade in it, and get property in it."
11 Shechem also said to her father and to her brothers: "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you say to me I will give.
12 Ask of me ever so much as marriage present and gift, and I will give according as you say to me; only give me the maiden to be my wife."
13 The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully, because he had defiled their sister Dinah.
14 They said to them: "We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is non-circumcised, for that would be a disgrace to us.
15 Only on this condition will we consent to you: that you will become as we are and every male of you be circumcised.
16 Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to ourselves, and we will live with you and become one people.
17 But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter, and we will be gone."
18 Their words pleased Hamor and Hamor's son Shechem.
19 And the young man did not delay to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter. Now he was the most honored of all his family.
20 So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying:
21 "These men are friendly with us; let them live in the land and trade in it, because hey, the land is large enough for them; let us take their daughters in marriage, and let us give them our daughters.
22 Only on this condition will the men agree to reside with us, to become one people: that every male among us be circumcised as they are circumcised.
23 Will not their cattle, their property and all their beasts be ours? Only let us agree with them, and they will live with us."
24 And all who went out of the gate of his city complied with Hamor and his son Shechem; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.
25 On the third day, when they were sore, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and came upon the city unawares, and killed all the males.
26 They slew Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went away.
27 And the sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because their sister had been defiled;
28 they took their flocks and their herds, their asses, and whatever was in the city and in the field;
29 all their wealth, all their little ones and their wives, all that was in the houses, they captured and made their prey.
30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: "You have brought trouble on me by making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Per'izzites; my numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household."
31 But they replied: "Should he treat our sister as a harlot?"
Deuteronomy 22:28 If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found,
Deuteronomy 22:29 then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her; he may not put her away all his days.
Deuteronomy 23:2 No bastard shall enter the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the LORD.
Deuteronomy 23:17 There shall be no cult prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a cult prostitute of the sons of Israel.
Deuteronomy 23:18 You shall not bring the hire of a harlot, or the wages of a dog, into the house of the LORD your God in payment for any vow; for both of these are an abomination to the LORD your God.
Judges 20:4 And the Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered and said: "I came to Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night.
Judges 20:5 And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about me by night; they meant to kill me, and they raped my concubine, and she is dead.
Judges 20:6 And I took my concubine and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel, because they have committed abomination and wantonness in Israel.
Ruth 2:4 And hey, Bo'az came from Bethlehem; and he said to the reapers: "The LORD be with you!" And they answered: "The LORD bless you."
5 Then Bo'az said to his servant who was in charge of the reapers: "Whose maiden is this?"
6 And the servant who was in charge of the reapers answered: "It is the Moabite maiden, who came back with Na'omi from the country of Moab.
7 She said: "Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the reapers." So she came, and she has continued from early morning until now, without resting even for a moment."
8 Then Bo'az said to Ruth: "Now, listen, my daughter, do not go to glean in another field or leave this one, but keep close to my maidens.
9 Let your eyes be upon the field which they are reaping, and go after them. Have I not charged the young men not to molest you? And when you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drink what the young men have drawn."
10 Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground, and said to him: "Why have I found favor in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, when I am a foreigner?"
11 But Bo'az answered her: "All that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband has been fully told me, and how you left your father and mother and your native land and came to a people that you did not know before.
12 The LORD recompense you for what you have done, and a full reward be given you by the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge!"
13 Then she said: "You are most gracious to me, my lord, for you have comforted me and spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not one of your maidservants."
14 And at mealtime Bo'az said to her: "Come here, and eat some bread, and dip your morsel in the wine." So she sat beside the reapers, and he passed to her parched grain; and she ate until she was satisfied, and she had some left over.
15 When she rose to glean, Bo'az instructed his young men, saying: "Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not reproach her.
16 And also pull out some from the bundles for her, and leave it for her to glean, and do not rebuke her."
17 So she gleaned in the field until evening; then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.
18 And she took it up and went into the city; she showed her mother-in-law what she had gleaned, and she also brought out and gave her what food she had left over after being satisfied.
19 And her mother-in-law said to her: "Where did you glean today? And where have you worked? Blessed be the man who took notice of you." So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and said: "The man's name with whom I worked today is Bo'az."
20 And Na'omi said to her daughter-in-law: "Blessed be he by the LORD, whose kindness has not rejected the living or the dead!" Na'omi also said to her: "The man is a relative of ours, one of our nearest relatives.
" 21 And Ruth the Moabitess said: "Besides, he said to me: 'You shall keep close by my servants, till they have finished all my harvest.'"
22 And Na'omi replied to Ruth, her daughter-in-law: "It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidens, lest in another field you be molested."
Second Samuel 13:1 Now Ab'salom, David's son, had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and after a time Amnon, David's son, desired her.
2 And Amnon was so tormented that he made himself ill because of his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin, and it seemed impossible to Amnon to do anything to her.
3 But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jon'adab, the son of Shim'e-ah, David's brother; and Jon'adab was a very sneaky man.
4 And [Jon'adab] said to him: "Oh son of the king, why are you so haggard morning after morning? Will you not tell me?" Amnon said to him: "I crave Tamar, my brother Ab'salom's sister."
5 Jon'adab said to him: "Lie down on your bed, and pretend to be ill; and when your father comes to see you, say to him: 'Let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and prepare the food in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it from her hand.'"
6 So Amnon lay down, and pretended to be ill; and when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, "Please have my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand."
7 Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, "Go to your brother Amnon's house, and prepare food for him."
8 So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house, where he was lying down. And she took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and baked the cakes.
9 And she took the pan and emptied it out before him, but he refused to eat. And Amnon said: "Send out every one from me." So every one went out from him.
10 Then Amnon said to Tamar: "Bring the food into the chamber, that I may eat from your hand." And Tamar took the cakes she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.
11 But when she brought them near him to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her: "Come, lie with me, my sister."
12 She answered him: "No, my brother, do not force me; for such a thing is not done in Israel; do not do this wanton folly.
13 As for me, where could I carry my shame? And as for you, you would be as one of the wanton fools in Israel. Now therefore, I implore you, speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you."
14 But he would not listen to her; and being stronger than she, he forced her, and lay with her.
15 Then Amnon hated her with very great hatred; so that the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the craving with which he had desired her. And Amnon said to her, "Get up, be gone."
16 But she said to him: "No, my brother; for this wrong in sending me away is greater than the other which you did to me." But he would not listen to her.
17 He called the young man who served him and said: "Put this woman out of my presence, and bolt the door after her."
18 Now she was wearing a full-length gown with long sleeves; for thus were the virgin daughters of the king traditionally clad. So his servant put her out, and bolted the door after her.
19 And Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore the long robe which she wore; and she laid her hand on her head, and went away, crying out loud as she went.
20 And her brother Ab'salom said to her: "Has Amnon your brother been with you? Now hold your peace, my sister; he is your brother; do not take this to heart." So Tamar lived, a desolate woman, in her brother Ab'salom's house.
21 When King David heard of all these things, he was very angry.
22 But Ab'salom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Ab'salom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
23 After two full years Ab'salom had sheepshearers at Ba'al-ha'zor, which is near E'phraim, and Ab'salom invited all the king's sons.
24 And Ab'salom came to the king, and said: "Hey, your servant has sheepshearers; please have the king and his servants go with your servant."
25 But the king said to Ab'salom: "No, my son, let us not all go, lest we be burdensome to you." He pressed him, but he would not go, but gave him his blessing.
26 Then Ab'salom said: "If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us." And the king said to him: "Why should he go with you?"
27 But Ab'salom pressed him until he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him.
28 Then Ab'salom commanded his servants: "Notice when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you: 'Strike Amnon,' then kill him. Fear not; have I not commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant."
29 So the servants of Ab'salom did to Amnon as Ab'salom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and each mounted his mule and fled.
E. Adultery
Exodus 20:14 You shall not commit adultery.
Leviticus 18:20 And you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, and defile yourself with her.
Leviticus 20:10 If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
Deuteronomy 5:18 You shall not commit adultery.
Proverbs 6:29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; none who touches her will go unpunished.
Proverbs 6:32 He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself.
Proverbs 6:34 Because jealousy makes a man furious, and he will not spare when he takes revenge.
Proverbs 6:35 He will accept no compensation, nor be appeased though you multiply gifts.
Second Samuel 11:1 In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Jo'ab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they ravaged the Ammonites, and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.
2 It happened, late one afternoon, when David rose from his couch and was walking upon the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.
3 And David inquired about the woman. And one said: "Is not this Bathshe'ba, the daughter of Eli'am, the wife of Uri'ah the Hittite?"
4 So David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and he lay with her. Now she was purifying herself from her uncleanness. Then she returned to her house.
5 And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David: "I am with child."
6 So David sent word to Jo'ab: "Send me Uri'ah the Hittite." And Jo'ab sent Uri'ah to David.
7 When Uri'ah came to him, David asked how Jo'ab was doing, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.
8 Then David said to Uri'ah: "Go down to your house, and wash your feet." And Uri'ah went out of the king's house, and there followed him a present from the king.
9 But Uri'ah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.
10 When they told David: "Uri'ah did not go down to his house," David said to Uri'ah: "Have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?"
11 Uri'ah said to David: "The ark and Israel and Judah stay in booths; and my lord Jo'ab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field; shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing."
12 Then David said to Uri'ah: "Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will let you leave." So Uri'ah remained in Jerusalem that day, and the next.
13 And David invited him, and he ate in his presence and drank, so that he made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.
14 In the morning David wrote a letter to Jo'ab, and sent it by the hand of Uri'ah.
15 In the letter he wrote: "Set Uri'ah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down, and die."
16 And as Jo'ab was besieging the city, he assigned Uri'ah to the place where he knew there were valiant men.
17 And the men of the city came out and fought with Jo'ab; and some of the servants of David among the people fell. Uri'ah the Hittite was slain also.
18 Then Jo'ab sent and told David all the news about the fighting;
19 and [Jo'ab] instructed the messenger: "When you have finished telling all the news about the fighting to the king,
20 then, if the king's anger rises, and if he says to you: 'Why did you go so near the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?
21 Who killed Abim'elech the son of Jerub'besheth? Did not a woman throw an upper millstone upon him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?' then you shall say: 'Your servant Uri'ah the Hittite is dead also.'"
22 So the messenger went, and came and told David all that Jo'ab had sent him to tell.
23 The messenger said to David: "The men gained an advantage over us, and came out against us in the field; but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate.
24 Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall; some of the king's servants are dead; and your servant Uri'ah the Hittite is dead also."
25 David said to the messenger: "Thus shall you say to Jo'ab: 'Do not let this matter trouble you, for the sword devours now one and now another; strengthen your attack upon the city, and overthrow it.' And encourage him."
26 When the wife of Uri'ah heard that Uri'ah her husband was dead, she made lamentation for her husband.
27 And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.
Second Samuel 12:7 Nathan said to David: "You are the man. Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul;
8 and I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if this were too little, I would add to you as much more.
9 Why have you despised the word of the LORD, to do what is evil in his sight? You have smitten Uri'ah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.
10 Now therefore the sword shall never leave your house, because you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uri'ah the Hittite to be your wife.'
11 Thus says the LORD: 'Hey, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.
12 For you did it secretly; but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.'"
13 David said to Nathan: "I have sinned against the LORD." And Nathan said to David: "The LORD also has put away your sin; you shall not die.
14 Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the LORD, the child who is born to you shall die."
Jeremiah 5:7 How can I pardon you? Your children have rejected me and have sworn by those who are no gods. When I fed them to the full, they committed adultery and trooped to the houses of whores.
Jeremiah 7:9 Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known?
Jeremiah 23:14 But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from his evil; all of them have become like Sodom to me, and its inhabitants like Gomorrah."
Jeremiah 29:23 "...they have done an outrageous thing in Israel, they have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and they have spoken in my name lying words that I did not command them. I am the one who knows, and I am witness," declares the LORD.
Ezekiel 16:15 "But you trusted in your beauty, and played the harlot because of your renown, and lavished your harlotries on any passer-by.
16 You took some of your garments, and made for yourself gaily decked shrines, and on them played the harlot; the like has never been, nor ever shall be.
17 You also took your fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and with them played the harlot;
18 and you took your embroidered garments to cover them, and set my oil and my incense before them.
19 Also my bread which I gave you -I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey - you set before them for a pleasing aroma," says the Lord GOD.
20 "And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your harlotries so small a matter
21 that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them?
22 And in all your abominations and your harlotries you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, weltering in your blood.
23 And after all your wickedness - woe, woe to you!" says the Lord GOD,
24 "you built yourself a vaulted chamber, and made yourself a lofty place in every square;
25 at the head of every street you built your lofty place and prostituted your beauty, spreading your legs to any passer-by, and multiplying your harlotry.
26 You also played the harlot with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, multiplying your harlotry, to provoke me to anger.
27 Hey, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you, and diminished your allotted portion, and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.
28 You played the harlot also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you played the harlot with them, and yet you were not satisfied.
29 You multiplied your harlotry also with the trading land of Chalde'a; and even with this you were not satisfied.
30 How lovesick is your heart," says the Lord GOD, "seeing you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen harlot;
31 building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a harlot, because you scorned hire.
32 Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!
33 Men give gifts to all harlots; but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side for your harlotries.
34 So you were different from other women in your harlotries: none solicited you to play the harlot; and you gave hire, while no hire was given to you; therefore you were different."
35 Wherefore, harlot, hear the word of the LORD:
36 Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because your shame was laid bare and your nakedness uncovered in your harlotries with your lovers, and because of all your idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them,
37 therefore, hey, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and all those you loathed; I will gather them against you from every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
38 And I will judge you as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
39 And I will give you into the hand of your lovers, and they shall throw down your vaulted chamber and break down your lofty places; they shall strip you of your clothes and take your fair jewels, and leave you naked and bare.
40 They shall bring up a host against you, and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.
41 And they shall burn your houses and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women; I will make you stop playing the harlot, and you shall also give hire no more.
42 So will I satisfy my fury on you, and my jealousy shall leave you; I will be calm, and will no more be angry.
Ezekiel 23:1 The word of the LORD came to me:
2 "Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother;
3 they played the harlot in Egypt; they played the harlot in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin nipples fondled.
4 Oho'lah was the name of the elder and Ohol'ibah the name of her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oho'lah is Sama'ria, and Ohol'ibah is Jerusalem.
5 Oho'lah played the harlot while she was mine; and she doted on her lovers the Assyrians,
6 warriors clothed in purple, governors and commanders, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.
7 She bestowed her harlotries upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them; and she defiled herself with all the idols of every one on whom she doted.
8 She did not give up her harlotry which she had practiced since her days in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her and handled her virgin bosom and poured out their lust upon her.
9 Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
10 These uncovered her nakedness; they seized her sons and her daughters; and her they slew with the sword; and she became a byword among women, when judgment had been executed upon her.
11 Her sister Ohol'ibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt than she in her doting and in her harlotry, which was worse than that of her sister.
12 She doted upon the Assyrians, governors and commanders, warriors clothed in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.
13 And I saw that she was defiled; they both took the same way.
14 But she carried her harlotry further; she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chalde'ans portrayed in vermilion,
15 girded with belts on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, a picture of Babylonians whose native land was Chalde'a.
16 When she saw them she doted upon them, and sent messengers to them in Chalde'a.
17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of lust, and they defiled her with their sinful passion; and after she was polluted by them, she turned from them in disgust.
18 When she carried on her harlotry so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned from her sister.
19 Yet she increased her harlotry, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the harlot in the land of Egypt
20 and doted upon her paramours there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses.
21 Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians squeezed your nipples and pressed your young breasts."
22 Therefore, O Ohol'ibah, thus says the Lord GOD: "Hey, I will rouse against you your lovers from whom you turned in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side:
23 the Babylonians and all the Chalde'ans, Pekod and Sho'a and Ko'a, and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, governors and commanders all of them, officers and warriors, all of them riding on horses.
24 And they shall come against you from the north with chariots and wagons and a host of peoples; they shall set themselves against you on every side with buckler, shield, and helmet, and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.
25 And I will direct my indignation against you, that they may deal with you in fury. They shall cut off your nose and your ears, and your survivors shall fall by the sword. They shall seize your sons and your daughters, and your survivors shall be devoured by fire.
26 They shall also strip you of your clothes and take away your fine jewels.
27 Thus I will put an end to your lewdness and your harlotry brought from the land of Egypt; so that you shall not lift up your eyes to the Egyptians or remember them any more."
28 For thus says the Lord GOD: "Hey, I will deliver you into the hands of those whom you hate, into the hands of those from whom you turned in disgust;
29 and they shall deal with you in hatred, and take away all the fruit of your labor, and leave you naked and bare, and the nakedness of your harlotry shall be uncovered. Your lewdness and your harlotry
30 have brought this upon you, because you played the harlot with the nations, and polluted yourself with their idols.
40 You even sent for men to come from far, to whom a messenger was sent, and wow, they came. For them you bathed yourself, painted your eyes, and decked yourself with ornaments;
41 you sat upon a stately couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed my incense and my oil.
42 The sound of a carefree multitude was with her; and with men of the common sort drunkards were brought from the wilderness; and they put bracelets upon the hands of the women, and beautiful crowns upon their heads."
43 Then I said: "Do not men now commit adultery when they practice harlotry with her?
44 For they have gone in to her, as men go in to a harlot. Thus they went in to Oho'lah and to Ohol'ibah to commit lewdness.
45 But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is upon their hands."
46 Thus says the Lord GOD: "Bring up a host against them, and make them an object of terror and bounty.
47 And the host shall stone them and slice them apart with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses.
48 Thus will I put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not commit lewdness as you have done.
49 And your lewdness shall be requited upon you, and you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry; and you shall know that I am the Lord GOD."
Ezekiel 24:15 Also the word of the LORD came to me:
16 "Son of man, hey, I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you at a stroke; yet you shall not mourn or weep nor shall your tears run down.
17 Sigh, but not out loud; make no mourning for the dead. Bind on your turban, and put your shoes on your feet; do not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of mourners."
18 So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died. And on the next morning I did as I was commanded.
19 And the people said to me: "Will you not tell us what these things mean for us, that you are acting thus?"
20 Then I said to them: "The word of the LORD came to me:
21 Say to the house of Israel: "Thus says the Lord GOD: Hey, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the desire of your soul; and your sons and your daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.
22 And you shall do as I have done; you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of mourners.
23 Your turbans shall be on your heads and your shoes on your feet; you shall not mourn or weep, but you shall pine away in your iniquities and groan to one another.
24 Thus shall Ezekiel be to you a sign; according to all that he has done you shall do. When this comes, then you will know that I am the Lord GOD."
25 "And you, son of man, on the day when I take from them their stronghold, their joy and glory, the delight of their eyes and their heart's desire, and also their sons and daughters,
26 on that day a fugitive will come to you to report to you the news.
27 On that day your mouth will be opened to the fugitive, and you shall speak and be no longer dumb. So you will be a sign to them; and they will know that I am the LORD."
Hosea 2:2 Plead with your mother, plead....because she is not my wife, and I am not her husband....that she put away her whoring from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts
Hosea 4:2 ...there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
Hosea 4:13 They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the whore, and your brides commit adultery.
Hosea 4:14 I will not punish your daughters when they play the whore, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go aside with prostitutes and sacrifice with cult prostitutes, and a people without understanding shall come to ruin.
Matthew 5:27 You have heard that it was said: "You shall not commit adultery."
Matthew 5:28 But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Matthew 5:32 But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Matthew 15:19 "Out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander."
Matthew 19:9 "And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery."
Mark 7:21 "From within, out of the heart of humans, come evil thoughts, fornication, theft, murder, adultery..."
Mark 10:11 And He said to them: "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her
Mark 10:12 and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery."
Mark 10:19 You know the commandments: "Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother."
Luke 16:18 "Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery."
Luke 18:20 You know the commandments: "Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother."
Romans 2:22 You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
Romans 13:9 The commandments:, "You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet," and any other commandment, are motivated by: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
First Corinthians 7:1 Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
2 But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.
4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
5 Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a while, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you for lack of self-control.
James 2:11 He who said: "Do not commit adultery," also said: "Do not murder." If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor against the law.
Second Peter 2:12 But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed, reviling in matters of which they are ignorant, will be destroyed in the same destruction with them,
Second Peter 2:13 suffering wrong for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their dissipation, carousing with you.
Second Peter 2:14 They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!
F. Sodomy - whether Homosexual, Bestiality, or Self-Sodomizing Masturbation
Genesis 19:4 But before they laid down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house;
5 and they called to Lot: "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them."
6 Lot went out of the door to the men, shut the door after him,
7 and said: "I beg you, my brothers, do not act so wickedly.
8 Hey, I have two daughters who have not known man; let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please; only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof."
9 But they said: "Stand back!" And they said: "This fellow came to travel, and he would play the judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them." Then they pressed hard against the man Lot, and drew near to break the door.
10 But the angels put out their hands and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.
11 And they struck with blindness the men who were at the door of the house, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves groping for the door.
12 Then the angels said to Lot: "Have you any one else here? Sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or any one you have in the city, bring them out of the place;
13 because we are about to destroy this place, because the outcry against its people has become great before the LORD, and the LORD has sent us to destroy it."
14 So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters: "Up, get out of this place; for the LORD is about to destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting.
15 When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying: "Get up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city."
16 But he lingered; so the angels seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the LORD being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.
17 And when they had brought them forth, [the angels] said: "Flee for your life; do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley; run to the hills, so that you are not consumed."
24 Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
25 and He overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
27 And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood with the LORD;
28 and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley, and observed, and wow, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.
Genesis 38:9 But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so when he went in to his brother's wife he spilled the semen on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother.
Genesis 38:10 And what he did was displeasing in the sight of the LORD, and he slew him also.
Leviticus 18:22 You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.
Leviticus 20:13 If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them.
Romans 1:18 The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all godlessness and wickedness of those who by their wickedness suppress the truth.
19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
20 Ever since the creation of the world His invisible nature, namely, His eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse;
21 for although they knew God they did not honor Him as God or give thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and their senseless minds were darkened.
22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal humans or birds or animals or reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever! Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural,
27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men shamelessly committing shameful acts with men and receiving in their own bodies the appropriate penalty for their error.
First Corinthians 6:9 Do you not know that the non-righteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,
First Corinthians 6:10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God.
Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong to the LORD our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this Law.
Isaiah 40:31 ...but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.
Isaiah 66:24 And they shall go out and look on the dead bodies of those who have rebelled against me, because their worm shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.
Mark 9:48 ...where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.
Song of Solomon 8:6 Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave; the flashes thereof are flashes of fire, a vehement flame of the LORD.
Mark 2:22 No one puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and so are the skins; but new wine is for fresh skins."
Mark 9:47 If your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into Hell
Matthew 22:30 In the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
Mark 12:25 When they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
Matthew 19:6 "So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not humans pull apart."
First Corinthians 6:16 Do you not know that he who joins himself to a prostitute becomes one body with her? Because it is written: "The two shall become one flesh."
Ephesians 5:28 Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Ephesians 5:29 for no man ever hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ does the church,
Ephesians 5:30 because we are members of His body.
Ephesians 5:31 "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."
John 4:13 Jesus said to her: "Every one who drinks of this water will thirst again,
John 4:14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give them will never thirst; the water that I shall give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
John 4:15 The woman said to Him: "Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw."
John 17:11 And now I am no more in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.
John 17:12 While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me; I have guarded them, and none of them is lost but the son of perdition, that the Scripture be fulfilled.
John 17:22 The glory which you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one.
First Timothy 5:11 But refuse to enroll younger-women widows, because when they grow wanton against Christ they desire to re-marry,
First Timothy 5:12 and so they incur condemnation for having violated their first pledge.
Hebrews 4:13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.
Genesis 3:16 To the woman [God] said: "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you."
First Corinthians 15:53 For this perishable nature must put on the imperishable, and this mortal nature must put on immortality.
Luke 24:39 "See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself; handle me, and see; for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see that I have."
Revelation 21:5 He who sat upon the throne said: "Hey, I make all things new." Also He said: "Write this, for these words are trustworthy and true."My Life Philosophy
I do not have to disobey God.
I should obey God.
I want to obey God. REFERENCES:
http://confrontation.faithweb.com/2bworthy.htm
http://confrontation.faithweb.com/justdoit.htm
http://confrontation.faithweb.com/man2ape.htm
http://confrontation.faithweb.com/manygods.htm
http://confrontation.faithweb.com/pay4yrsn.htm
http://confrontation.faithweb.com/reaction.htm
http://confrontation.faithweb.com/trapped.htm