A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

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.

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.

How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!

A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.

I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:

The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him.

But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?

For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?

Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.

Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon called Zelotes,

After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days.

These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.

Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever.

But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her.

And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.