INTRODUCTION:

(Deuteronomy 4:2 [KJV])
Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

(Proverbs 30:5, 6 [KJV])
Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

(Isaiah 28:10 [KJV])
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

(Isaiah 28:13 [KJV])
But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

(2 Peter 1:20 [KJV])
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

All of the studies found here, whether book studies or topical studies, are done with research with mainly two things: The KING JAMES BIBLE and a plain old, 1828 Webster's Dictionary. Why? Outside of actually studying secular and Jewish history, archaeology, one needs nothing more. You do not need foreign, dead languages that no one speaks, nor lexicons, nor concordances, nor commentaries, because they differ not only with one another and with the KING JAMES BIBLE, they create division, confusion, debate, and unbelief, apostasy, and a falling away from God Himself. We do not need them. That Word of God written and preserved for us in our own language is supposed to be enough, like the Old Testament was for the Jews, and as the New Testament was for the early Christians in Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, German, etc.

There are studies within as tangents on words, subjects found within the two testaments, as to broaden the scope of the study, to learn more, deeper truths. This is not an intellectual site with PhDs, theologians, and no worldly wisdom.. Check everything out, everything. Not just here, but with everything you read and see and hear. Be Bereans:

(Acts 17:11 [KJV])
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

(1 Thessalonians 2:13 [KJV])
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

Always research for yourself, use all of the context, and never privately interpret!

Start of study

"Treat your wife better than you treat anything or anyone. That's your covenant with God.That's your first ministry. To love her the way Christ loves the church is a high calling. If you fail at that, you have failed at your calling."
-Paul Washer, false teacher of another Gospel

"Treat your husband better than you treat anything or anyone. That's your covenant with God.That's your first ministry. To love him the way Christ loves the church is a high calling. If you fail at that, you have failed at your calling."

He utterly FAILED to include that part. That is also in Scripture. That false doctrine quoted by him above is manmade, not from God, and prevalent in America. It was only one side of the whole story, making him a heretic, because that is all he says on that subject. I wonder if he would ever quote the other side of that...hmmmmm........
That quote of his is commonly called "a verse taken out of context" (Ephesians 6, "Husbands love your wives"), and this clearly shows why God never wanted us to follow man, but only Him. In these last days, in the apostasy, Christians base their doctrines, their teachings, on famous men and women who fleece the flock, not on God's Word. Sad, but that is also why the divorce rate among Christians in America is the same as that among unbelievers.

Not to mention that this false teacher also has a "works salvation" gospel, which the Bible calls "another Gospel which is not another" (Galatians 1).

(Titus 2:3-5 [KJV])
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

(Proverbs 25:8-10 [KJV])
Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame. Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another: Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away.

(1 Corinthians 14:34 [KJV])
Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

This is including "women's... 'prayer'... groups", which are really "women's 'open air' groups". Their job is to teach other women, plus children, but never men. This is utterly ignored today, and why we have powerful women in all places ruling over men, running the marriage, divorcing men with women lawyers, women judges. They call it "being progressive". God calls it wickedness, a curse, destruction of His sacred creation in the Garden, marriage. It is not their place to air dirty laundry on their husbands in order to sway everyone to their side, playing the victim, making him "GUILTY AS CHARGED UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT!".

In that vein, women RUNNING the marriages is why we also have women RUINING them daily in the churches throughout America, because the difference between "RUN" and "RUIN" is the "I" problem, as in "I want......" "I will........." "If YOU do NOT, I will".... This is spiritually an "I" problem, or spiritual blindness, from not reading the Word, but reading into it, taking words, verses out of context, privately interpreting them in the light of some mainstream, famous author, radio personality, TV personality, according to Hollywood, according the the latest American tradition, fad, part of culture as it relates to God's Word and placing it above God's Word, because they do not read, study, heed God's Word. They are too smart for that, having a college degree, a high highfalutin job, etc. In other words, my husband has no right to tell ME what to do at all. ***I*** TELL HIM what to do. ***I*** am WOMAN, hear me ROAR!! All against the Word of God they make believe that they believe, but will not follow.

(1 Samuel 15:23 [AKJV/PCE])
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

Christian Marriage and Divorce

(Proverbs 18:13 [KJV])
He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.

Proverbs 18:17 [(KJV)]
He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; But his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.

(Matthew 22:29 [KJV])
Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

(2 Peter 3:16 [KJV])
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

THE MOST PAINFUL SIN: GOSSIP

No place in America can one find more pain, suffering, deliberately inflicted than in America's churches, even worse than the secular world. Women especially, but not exclusively, like to start "Women's Prayer Group", in which one or more will come in and back-stab their husband(s). That is only part of the issue. The other part is that not a single leader, not a single other woman will stop them and tell them that this is evil, and that this is a private matter, not to be aired in public, and this woman will play the victim, while the husband is completely unaware this is even going on, because not a single woman in that group will have the decency, the moral fortitude, the guts, to tell that man that this is going on. By the time they somehow, maybe, wind up in some sort of counseling, then he is already at a complete disadvantage, as everyone now, even the counselor (male or female), believes the wife, not the husband. He finds out about all of this talk behind his back, gets angry, is supposed to "be nice and take it" or this only justifies her victim-hood. The lawyer might be a feminist woman, the judge also, so it is now three against one, in a post 1960s time when the "E.R.A." and "women's rights" (superiority over men, outlawing of marriage as slavery of women) is prevalent in society. This utterly ruins marriages and men both. The divorce rate among Christians is the same as the secular world. Shame on the church, and pastors literally either ignore this, are too afraid to speak on this out of fear, or agree with it, letting their wives run and eventually ruin the church, which is eventual, inevitable.

This is how it all works to destroy God's holy institution of marriage. Chuck Missler once said,

"I do not want to talk about so and so but, in order for you to pray specifically, let me just tell you the latest dirt on what they did!"

Then not a single soul will go and talk to the other side, to get both sides of the story, including the leadership there. Marriage? Over. Who wins?

(Exodus 20:16 [AKJV/PCE])
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

(Deuteronomy 20:16-21 [AKJV/PCE])
ΒΆ If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong; Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days; And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother; Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you. And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

(Leviticus 19:16,17 [KJV])
Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD. Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.

(Proverbs 11:13 [AKJV/PCE])
A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.

(Proverbs 18:8 [AKJV/PCE])
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

(Proverbs 20:19 [AKJV/PCE])
He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

(Proverbs 26:20 [AKJV/PCE])
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.

(Proverbs 26:22 [AKJV/PCE])
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

(Exodus 23:1 [KJV])
Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

(James 1:26 [KJV])
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

(James 4:11 [KJV])
Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

There is no "going to counsel", week after week, to "fix the marriage", without airing a ton of dirty laundry, speaking evil of the other spouse. Talking about in public "prayer groups" that which happens in the home? Is not allowed, because it causes strife, not peace; division, not unity; wounds, not healing; anger and not joy; divorce and not reconciliation. You cannot speak evil of someone in a public setting "for a prayer request" without airing dirty laundry, heaping mud on your spouse and backstabbing them with a fiery tongue. That is pure evil. Most who go to this are not interested in fixing any marriage, nor is that found in Scripture, but rather to justify ending it.

Last night my friend--he says he is my friend--
Came in and questioned me. "I hear it said
You have done this and that. I come to ask
Are these things true?" A glint was in his eye
Of small distrust. His words were crisp and hot.
He measured me with anger, and flung down
A little heap of facts had come to him.
"I hear it said you have done this and that."

Suppose I have? And are you not my friend?
And are you not my friend enough to say,
"If it were true, there would be reason in it.
And if I cannot know the how and why,
Still I can trust you, waiting for a word.
Or for no word, if no word ever come!"

Is friendship just a thing of afternoons,
Of pleasuring one's friend and one's dear self--
Greed for sedate approval of his pace,
Suspicion if he take one little turn

Upon the rod, one flight into the air,
And has not sought you for your Yea or Nay!

No. Friendship is not so. I am my own.
And howsoever near my friend may draw
Unto my sould, there is a legend hung
Above a certain straight and narrow way
Says, "Dear my friend, ye may not enter here!"

I would the time has come--as it has not--
When men shall rise and say, "He is my friend.
He has done this? And what is that to me!
Think you have a check upon his head,
Or cast a guiding rein across his neck?
I am his friend. And for that cause I walk
Not overclose beside him, leaving still
Space for his silences, and space for mine."
--Barbara Young

This is a poem included in an article entitled, The Most Painful Sin, which was first published in the April 1996 edition of Personal Update.

(2 Timothy 2:15 [KJV])
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

YES, BUT......BUT-YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT HE/SHE DID TO ME!

(Matthew 18:21, 22 [KJV])
Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.

Seven times seventy is four hundred and ninety times!

(Hebrews 3:7 [AKJV/PCE])
Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

Are you grumbling like the Old Testament Jews over what your spouse is like, and relating that to those who you have no business speaking to-EVER-about your spouse? You will not get any rest doing that, God assures you.

THE ORIGIN OF MARRIAGE

This careful study is based upon Scripture, with verses in context, not privately interpreted, without consideration for any church denomination, church sect, personalities, experiences, hurt feelings, past history, opinions, famous Christian authors, radio personalities, TV hosts, Hollywood, people in your church, specifically "prayer groups", consultations with them, consultations with psychologists, doctors, consultations with pastors, consultations with "marriage counselors", not based upon any personal situations, cultures or any other influences such as "current day Christianity in America" because, quite frankly, God is not interested in these factors as the Creator of marriage, being the Head, sought by both spouses as the solution. Not to mention America is now Laodicea and Sodom and Gomorrah in her attitudes on marriage. Marriages were just fine until the radical 1950s to 1970s feminist invasion of America and her churches

(Genesis 2:21-24)
And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

(Matthew 19:6 [KJV])
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

(Mark 10:9 [KJV])
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

(Malachi 2:14,16 [KJV])
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

God hates putting away, as in divorce. He hated when men did it. Somehow, in America, it is now acceptable to go against God's Word if you are a woman, and your woman friends in your "prayer group" will even support you in every way! YIPPEE!! WE ARE WOMAN!! Except that...

When God hates something, it is a command to us not to EVER do it!

THE COMMAND TO ADAM, THEN LATER COMMUNICATED TO EVE, BY ADAM

(Genesis 2:15-17 [KJV])
And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

GENESIS THREE: THE FALL OF MANKIND, AND THE FALL OF THE MARRIAGE

 (Genesis Chapter 3 [KJV]):
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them. And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

(Mark 10:7,8 [KJV])
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

(Matthew 19:3-9)
The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

(Ephesians 5:22-31 [KJV])
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

Verse twenty two is very much all across AMERICA ignored for the next part ("husbands love your wives"), much preferred by American Christian women, the only part they care about, quote to the husband, often when she does not get her way, and is so popular among pastors as well, especially women "pastors". It comes with an "I demand that you love me or else!" threat of public airing, divorce, etc. Being one flesh means that, spiritually, emotionally, the spouse literally has their flesh ripped from their body, always causing intense pain, long term suffering when divorce happens. What she means by "love your wives" in America is,

"I want things my way and do not question it!"

(1 Peter 3:1-7 [KJV])
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: Even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement. Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

"Be in SUBJECTION?? WHAT IS THIS?? "Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord?", what in the world was wrong with that woman!?! We are not her daughters, so who cares what some old fashioned woman did in the Old Testament!"

IN LIFE, THERE ARE HIERARCHAL AUTHORITIES, CRADLE TO GRAVE:

The only one above at issue, under attack, hated, maligned, etc. Is the marital one, since the radical feminist 1960s, the hippy generation, out to destroy marriage. Women today only like part about the husband giving the wife the honor and loving her; but they hate the "weaker vessel" part, the part about being submissive (Ew, Yucky, Ugh) but it is accurate, timely as well. Got a problem with that? Seek God's Word and ask Him to show you

(1 Corinthians 11:3-15 [KJV])
But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head. But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels. Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord. For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God. Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered? Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.

Here are your reasons Paul says this. (1 Timothy 2:9-15 [KJV])
In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

If anything about Christian women in America is accurate, this is. No modesty, jewelry like crazy, makeup, liposuction, facelifts, fancy clothes. Nothing wrong with all of makeup, as, Kent Hovind would say, "Every old barn needs a coat of paint once in a while" except if that is all that they are adorned with, because their mouth, behavior and attitude belie this outward beauty, because of their arrogance, pride, tattling, busybodying, being pushy, being overly brazen, being overbearing, being controlling, wanting to be pastors and teachers of men, senators, surgeons, CEOs, presidents, lawyers, judges, openly, orating with open mics, belittling their husbands and publicly airing dirty laundry, etc.-JUST NOT WIVES, anything but that!

(1 Corinthians 7:10-16 [KJV])
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife. But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

(2 Corinthians 1:12 [KJV])
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

THE WORLD SYSTEM

(1 John 2:15, 16 [KJV])
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

(Genesis 3:6 [KJV])
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

The two different verses, in two different testaments in God's Word, nearly parallel each other, thousands of years apart (1 Corinthians 6:1 [KJV])
Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

(1 Corinthians 6:6, 7 [KJV])
But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

Divorce in America is done before the unjust, the unbelievers. Paul says, "How DARE YOU?"

(1 Corinthians 6:7 [KJV])
Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

We were never as Christians told in any way to adopt the ways of this evil, wicked, sinfully cursed world. NEVER. We were told not to love the ways of this world, avoid, shun anyone in the church who did adopt those worldly ways, because they are carnal.
The marriage and divorce in America goes something like this, typically: (Isaiah 3:12 [KJV])
As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

There was a judgment, a curse on Israel herself because they walked away from God, because they would let their rulers be women and children. It is a principle, not necessarily a prophecy to the church, but to Israel. And yet, look at America. Men are degraded, abased, mocked, denigrated, ridiculed, belittled, etc. because that is the fruit of that poisonous, feminist tree. Look at tell-a-vision, movies, magazines, any type of media. Who is the smart one? The wife, nearly always. Who is the idiot, the problem? The husband, nearly always now.

(2 Corinthians 11:3 [KJV])
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

(2 Corinthians 13:1 [KJV])
This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.

(Numbers 35:30 [KJV])
Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.

(Deuteronomy 17:6 [KJV])
At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

(Deuteronomy 19:15 [KJV])
One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.

(John 8:17 [KJV])
It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true. I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me. Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.

(Hebrews 10:28 [KJV])
He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:

(Hebrews 13:4 [AKJV/PCE])
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

(Matthew 18:15-17 [KJV)]
Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.

Does anyone see "bring it to a public prayer group" first here? How about second? Maybe third? Is the victim spouse present? Ever? or is the first witness a group?

(Matthew 4:8, 9 [KJV])
Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.

(Galatians 6:1 [KJV])
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

(1 Timothy 5:13 [KJV])
And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

Widows are not to be left alone and without someone to care for them, as this would be the result. Not good. What do divorced/separate women do when they go to "prayer groups" to air the dirty laundry on their husband? The exact same thing, wander house to house, as tattlers and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not!

(Proverbs 20:19 [KJV])
He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

Secrets revealed to a group always contain, at some point, untrue things. Half truths are lies. Remember that serpent in the Garden? Over time, the talebearer is trusted, and no one checks to see if there is another side or, when they do check, they do not believe that side, but still believe the person they prefer to believe, because of their worldview of liberalism.

(James 3:5-8 [KJV])
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Airing dirty laundry in a public setting about one's marriage is about as guaranteed as one can get to starting a fire (originating from hell) that cannot be put out easily!

(Ephesians 5:33 [KJV])
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

CLUE: You cannot reverence someone who you are backstabbing, talking about behind their back. That is evil in and of itself. Then expect to be loved while violating this verse. The loving the wife part is fine..........the reverence for the husband is completely ignored.

HOW TO DIVORCE IN AMERICA

  1. Bring your cause publicly behind the spouse's back to a public "prayer group" to prepare
  2. Pray out loud, sound spiritual like you are a victim and "seek God's Will" (ask God to violate His Word and allow this to happen by opening doors
  3. Part one done, part two is to demand that the spouse now go to "marriage counseling" and, if they refuse? That is all the excuse you need to depart! That is all the excuse you need to sue! YIPPEE!! FREEDOM FROM THE CHAINS OF MARRIAGE!!!
  4. Prepare for the "legal separation (not found in Scripture) to get your a$$et$ separated to keep lots or all of your money or take lost or all of theirs
  5. Do all according to ___________________ (insert U.S. state) law
  6. Claim the victim and poison the jury pool
  7. Make threats of full exposure if you do not get what you want
  8. Get a lawyer, if necessary. If you are the wife, get a woman lawyer
  9. Ask the "prayer" group to pray for a woman judge if you are a woman suing in a worldly, secular court
  10. Continue to play the victim
  11. Get what you want, rinse, repeat as necessary
Since the radical feminist movement in the 1960s, this is especially helpful for the wife, usually bad for the husbands. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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