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NASB | Hebrews 13:4 Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Hebrews 13:4 Marriage is to be held in honor among all [that is, regarded as something of great value], and the marriage bed undefiled [by immorality or by any sexual sin]; for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. |
Bible Question: Where in the Bible does it state that u must be married and not live together. |
Bible Answer: Liefie I have been following this branch for a while and been trying to see exactly what you originaly meant by your question here. The thread got interesting. But it seems like what you are talking about is a verse that describes that you must be married and not live together? As in you must "remain married while you are not living together"? I think that perhaps that is what you were trying to ask about? 1 Corinthians 7:10, 11 But to the married I give instructions, not I, but the Lord, that the wife should not leave her husband (but if she does leave, she must remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband should not divorce his wife. This is the only verse I know of that fits how you phrased your question, "where in the Bible does it state that you must be married and not live together". I think some confussion came in there because of the last half of your question as, "and not live together" in light of being married. As everyone in the thread keeps discussing everyone who is married is supposed to live together, they are not suppossed to be apart. What these verses in 1 Corinthians 7:10, 11 is talking about is if the marriage goes south the wife should not leave, and the husband should not divorce his wife. But if for some undisclosed reason that Paul doesn't give us, the wife leaves then, "she must be married and not live together", or to put it another way, "she must remain "un"married (that is separate from the husband and not married to another man)". Then the verses say that she must remain in that "single but married, unmarried but married" state or go back to her husband. This is instructions for believers. There are some a reasons why she, or he, has to stay married but "single". 1) They are believers. 2) In verse 39 it says the wife is bound to her husband as long as her husband is alive, but she is free once he is dead. There are a lot of reasons why people split up, but that is because God's plans, marriage God style, gets messed up by sin. If there is anything the devil would like to be doing it is to mess up all of God's plans and marriage is one of God's plans. In Mathew 19 and Mark 10 Jesus talks about God's plans for marriage and how people mess it up. Jesus also talks about true grounds for divorce. And in 1 Corinthians 7 it talks about no longer being bound if the unbeliever leaves you. But I am not going to touch the ins and outs of that with a ten foot poll because people get very upset by it and not many can agree about whether or not a person who had grounds for divorce have the Biblical right to get remarried. blessings abound, bowler |