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Bible quotes about children

- "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth"

- "Children are a heritage from the Lord."— Psalm 127:3

Bible quotes about marriage

- "That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh." (Genesis 2:24)

- "Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her." (Ephesians 5:25)

- "Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate." Mark 10:9

- "Marriage should be honoured by all." Hebrews 13:4

Bible quotes against fornication

- "Flee fornication." (1 Corinthians 6:18)

- "Marriage should be honoured by all, and the marriage bed kept pure." Hebrews 13:4

- But fornicators and adulterers, God will judge

Bible quotes for fonication

"God is love." (1 John 4:8)

Bible quotes about adultery

- "You shall not commit adultery." (Exodus 20:14)

- "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery'; but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart." (Matthew 5:27-8)

Bible quotes against homosexuality

- "Go forth and multiply." (Genesis 1:28)

- "Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a women; that is detestable." (Leviticus 18:22)

Bible quotes for homosexuality

- "God is love." (1 John 4:8)

- love thy neighbour

- "Do to others as you would have them do to you."

Quran quotes about homosexuality

- "Must you, unlike [other] people, lust after males and abandon the wives that God has created for you? You are exceeding all bounds." (Qur'an 26:165-166)

- "How can you commit this outrage with your eyes wide open? How can you lust after men instead of women? What fools you are!" (Qur'an 27:54-5)

Bible quotes about divorce

- "Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery." (Mark 10:11-12)

- "So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate." (Matthew 19:6)

- "And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery." (Matthew 19:9)

- "Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate."— Mark 10:9

- "God hates divorce." Malachi 2:16

Hadith quotes about divorce

"Divorce is the worst thing that Allah permits." (Hadith)

Bible quotes about respecting elders

"honour your father and mother" (Exodus 20:12).

Bible quotes against polygamy

"Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach." (1 Timothy 3:2)

Quran quotes about polygamy

"[M]arry the women that seem good to you: two, or three, or four. If you fear that you will not be able to treat them justly, then marry (only) one." (Qur'an 4:3)

Bible quotes about children

- "He who spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them." (Proverbs 13:24)

- "After all, children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children." (2 Corinthians 12:14)

- "Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it." (Proverbs 22:6)

Bible quotes about the role of children

-"Honour your father and mother." (Exodus 20:12)

-"Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right." (Ephesians 6:1)

-"Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old." (Proverbs 23:22)

Bible quotes for gender equality

- "God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them." (Genesis 1:27)

- "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman,' for she was taken out of man." (Genesis 2:23)

- "There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." (Galatians 3:28)

Bible quotes against gender equality

- "The Lord God said, 'It is not good for man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him'." (Genesis 2:18)

- "Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you." (Genesis 3:16)

- "I do not permit a woman to teach or have authority over a man; she must be quiet." (1 Timothy 2:12)

- "Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord." (Ephesians 5:22)

Bible quotes about families

- "Children, obey your parents in the Lord." Ephesians 6:1

- "Fathers, do not exasperate your children." Ephesians 6:4

Bible quotes about sexual relationships

- "The body is a temple of the Holy Spirit." 1 Corinthians 6:19

- "Flee from sexual immorality." 1 Corinthians 6:18

Bible quotes about love

- "Love is patient, love is kind." (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)

- "Above all, love each other deeply." (1 Peter 4:8)

Quran quotes about marriage

- "And among His signs is this, that He created for you mates... that you may find tranquillity in them." (Qur'an 30:21)

- "They are clothing for you and you are clothing for them." (Qur'an 2:187)

Quran quotes about family

- "Your Lord has commanded that you be kind to parents." (Qur'an 17:23)

- "We have enjoined on man kindness to parents." (Qur'an 31:14)

Quran quotes about contraception

"Do not kill your children for fear of poverty." Qur'an 17:31

Quran quotes about the roles of the family

- "Men are the protectors and maintainers of women." (Qur'an 4:34)

- "The mothers shall breastfeed their children for two whole years." (Qur'an 2:233)

Quran quotes about divorce

- "When you divorce women, divorce them for their prescribed period and count it accurately." (Qur'an 65:1)

- "If you fear a breach between them, appoint arbitrators from his people and her people." (Qur'an 4:35)