Bible verses about "courtship" | Murdock

¹ Wherefore, my brethren, I entreat you, and beseech you by our Lord Jesus, that, as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk, and to please God, so ye would make progress more and more. ² For ye know what command we gave you in our Lord Jesus the Messiah. ³ For this is the pleasure of God, your sanctification; and that ye be separated from all whoredom; ⁴ and that each one of you might know how to possess his vessel, in sanctity and in honor; ⁵ and not in the concupiscence of lust, like the rest of the Gentiles who know not God: ⁶ and that ye dare not to transgress and to overreach any one his brother, in this matter; because our Lord is the avenger of all these, as also we have said and testified to you in time past. ⁷ For God did not call you unto impurity, but to sanctification. ⁸ He therefore who spurneth, spurneth not man but God, who hath given his Holy Spirit in you.

¹² Here is the patience of the saints, who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

¹ Be ye imitators of me, as I am of the Messiah. ² Moreover I commend you, my Brethren, that in all things ye are mindful of me, and that ye hold fast the precepts as I delivered them to you. ³ And I would have you know, that the head of every man is the Messiah, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of the Messiah is God. ⁴ Every man, who prayeth or prophesieth with his head covered, dishonoreth his head. ⁵ And every woman, who prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered, dishonoreth her head; for she is on a level with her whose head is shaven. ⁶ For if a woman be not covered, let her also be shorn; but if it be shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered. ⁷ The man, indeed, ought not to cover his head, because he is the likeness and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. ⁸ For the man was not from the woman, but the woman from the man. ⁹ Neither was the man created for the woman's sake, but the woman for the man's sake. ¹⁰ For this cause ought the woman to have on her head the mark of authority, because of the angels. ¹¹ Nevertheless, the man is not without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in our Lord. ¹² For as the woman was from the man, so the man is by the woman; and every thing is from God. ¹³ Judge for yourselves, among yourselves; is it becoming, that a woman pray to God with her head uncovered? ¹⁴ Doth not nature teach you, that in a man, if his hair groweth long, it is a reproach to him? ¹⁵ But for a woman, if her hair is abundant, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given to her for a covering. ¹⁶ But if any one is contentious about these things, we on our part have no such custom, nor hath the church of God. ¹⁷ This which I now enjoin, is not as praising you; for ye have not made progress, but have deteriorated. ¹⁸ Because, first; when ye assemble in the church, there are, I hear, divisions among you; and I partly believe it. ¹⁹ For there are to be contentions among you, that the approved among you may be known. ²⁰ When therefore ye come together, ye eat and drink, not as is becoming on the day of our Lord. ²¹ But, one and another proceedeth to eat his own supper; and one is hungry, and another is drunken. ²² What! have ye no houses in which ye can eat and drink? Or, despise ye the church of God, and shame them who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I praise you not. ²³ For I have received from our Lord, that which I imparted to you; that our Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, ²⁴ and blessed, and brake it, and said: " Take, eat; this is my body, which is broken for your sakes: thus do ye, in remembrance of me." ²⁵ So, after they had supped, he gave also the cup, and said: " This cup is the new testament in my blood: thus do ye, as often as ye drink it, in remembrance of me." ²⁶ For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye commemorate the death of our Lord, until his advent. ²⁷ He therefore, who eateth of the bread of the Lord, and drinketh of his cup, and is not worthy of it, is guilty of the blood of the Lord, and of his body. ²⁸ For this reason, a man should examine himself, and then eat of this bread, and drink of this cup: ²⁹ for, whoever eateth and drinketh of it, while he is unworthy, eateth and drinketh condemnation on himself, by not discerning the body of the Lord. ³⁰ For this cause, many among you are diseased and sickly, and many sleep. ³¹ For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. ³² But when we are judged by our Lord, we are really chastised, that we may not be condemned with the world. ³³ Wherefore, my Brethren, when ye assemble to eat, wait ye one for another. ³⁴ And let him who is hungry, eat at home; that ye may assemble, not for condemnation. And as to other things, I will give you directions when I come.

²² Fly from all the lusts of youth; and follow after righteousness, and faith, and love, and peace, with them that invoke our Lord with a pure heart.

²⁶ For if a man sin, voluntarily, after he hath received a knowledge of the truth, there is no longer a sacrifice which may be offered for sins:

²⁷ Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt not commit adultery. ²⁸ But I say to you, That whoever gazeth on a woman with concupiscence, at once committeth adultery with her in his heart. ²⁹ If therefore thy right eye make thee offend, pluck it out, and cast it from thee; because it is better for thee that thy one member perish, than that thy whole body fall into hell. ³⁰ And if thy right hand make thee offend, cut it off, and cast it from thee; because it is better for thee that one of thy members perish, than that thy whole body fall into hell.

¹ And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me, it is praiseworthy for a man not to approach a woman.

⁵ And he said: For this reason, a man shall leave his father and his mother, and adhere to his wife; and they two shall be one flesh.

² But, on account of whoredom, let each have his own wife and let a woman have her own husband.

¹⁸ Flee whoredom. For every other sin which a man committeth, is external to his body; but he that committeth whoredom, sinneth against his own body.

¹ And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me, it is praiseworthy for a man not to approach a woman. ² But, on account of whoredom, let each have his own wife and let a woman have her own husband. ³ And let the man render to his wife the kindness which is due; and so also the woman to her husband. ⁴ The woman is not the sovereign over her body, but her husband: so also the man is not the sovereign over his body, but the wife. ⁵ Therefore, deprive not one another, except when ye both consent, at the time ye devote yourselves to fasting and prayer; and return again to the same disposition, that Satan tempt you not because of the concupiscence of your body. ⁶ But this I say, as to weak persons, not of positive precept. ⁷ For I would that all men might be like me in purity. But every man is endowed with his gift of God; one thus, and another so. ⁸ And I say to them who have no wives, and to widows, that it is advantageous to them to remain as I am. ⁹ But if they cannot endure it, let them marry: for it is more profitable to take a wife, than to burn with concupiscence. ¹⁰ And on them who have wives, I enjoin,-not I, but my Lord,-that the woman separate not from her husband. ¹¹ And if she separate, let her remain without a husband, or be reconciled to her husband; and let not the man put away his wife. ¹² And to the rest, say I,- I, not my Lord,-that if there be a brother, who hath a wife that believeth not, and she is disposed to dwell with him, let him not put her away. ¹³ And that woman, who hath a husband that believeth not, and he is disposed to dwell with her let her not forsake her husband. ¹⁴ For the husband who believeth not, is sanctified by the wife that believeth; and the wife who believeth not, is sanctified by the husband that believeth: otherwise their children would be impure; but now are they pure. ¹⁵ But if the unbeliever separateth, let him separate: A brother or sister is not in bondage in such cases: it is to peace, God hath called us. ¹⁶ For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou wilt procure life to thy husband? Or, thou husband, knowest thou, whether thou wilt procure life to thy wife? ¹⁷ Every one, however, as the Lord hath distributed to him, and every one as God hath called him, so let him walk. And also thus I enjoin upon all the churches. ¹⁸ Is a circumcised person called, let him not revert to uncircumcision: and if one uncircumcised be called, let him not become circumcised. ¹⁹ For circumcision is nothing, neither is uncircumcision; but the keeping of God's commands. ²⁰ Let every one continue in the vocation, in which he was called. ²¹ If thou wert called, being a servant; let it not trouble thee. But if thou canst be made free, choose it rather than to serve. ²² For he that is called by our Lord, being a servant, is God's freedman: likewise, he that is called, being a free man, is the Messiah's servant. ²³ Ye are bought with a price; become not the servants of men. ²⁴ Let every one, my Brethren, continue with God, in whatever state he was called. ²⁵ And concerning virginity, I have no precept from God; but I give counsels as a man who hath obtained mercy from God to be a believer. ²⁶ And I think this is suitable, on account of the necessity of the times; it is advantageous for a man to remain as he is. ²⁷ Art thou bound to a wife? Seek not a release. Art thou free from a wife? Seek not a wife. ²⁸ But if thou takest a wife, thou sinnest not. And if a maiden is given to a husband, she sinneth not. But they who are such, will have trouble in the body: but I am forbearing to you. ²⁹ And this I say, my Brethren, that the time to come is short; so that they who have wives, should be as if they had none; ³⁰ and they who weep, as if they wept not; and they who rejoice, as if they rejoiced not; and they who buy, as if they acquired not; ³¹ and those occupied with this world, not going beyond the just using: for the fashion of this world is passing away. ³² And therefore I wish you to be without solicitude. For he who hath not a wife, considereth the thing of his Lord, how he may please his Lord. ³³ And he who hath a wife, is anxious about the world, how he may please his wife. ³⁴ There is a difference also between a wife and a maiden. She who is without a husband, thinketh of things pertaining to her Lord, that she may be holy in her body and in her spirit. But she who hath a husband, thinketh of things pertaining to the world, how she may please her husband. ³⁵ And this I say for your advantage; I am not laying a snare for you; but that ye may be faithful towards your Lord, in a suitable manner, while not minding worldly things. ³⁶ But if any one thinketh that there is reproach, on account of his maiden daughter, because she hath passed her time, and he hath not presented her to a husband, and it be fitting that he present her; let him do what he desireth, he sinneth not; let her be married. ³⁷ But he who hath firmly determined in his own mind, and nothing compelleth him, and he can act his own pleasure, and he so judgeth in his heart, that he keep his maiden daughter, he doeth commendably. ³⁸ And therefore, he who presenteth his maiden daughter, doeth commendably; and he who presenteth not his maiden daughter, doeth very commendably. ³⁹ A woman, while her husband liveth, is bound by the law; but if her husband sleepeth in death, she is free to marry whom she pleaseth, yet only in the Lord. ⁴⁰ But she is happier, in my opinion, if she remain so: and I think also, that I have the Spirit of God.

¹² And let no one despise thy youth; but be thou a pattern for the believers, in speech, and in behavior, and in love, and in faith, and in purity.