Scripture teaches that God values the well-being and care of all children, regardless of their birth circumstances. In Deuteronomy, there are guidelines for those born outside of marriage, highlighting the importance of community and family support. The New Testament emphasizes the responsibility of families to care for their own, as seen in 1 Timothy, and warns against willful sin, as in Hebrews. Additionally, Jesus' teaching in Matthew and Paul's guidance in 1 Corinthians underscore the importance of marital fidelity and responsibility, providing a foundation for caring for children in all situations.
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No one of illegitimate birth may enter the assembly of the LORD, nor may any of his descendants, even to the tenth generation.
If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,
So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations. But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband. The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife. Do not deprive each other, except by mutual consent and for a time, so you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan will not tempt you through your lack of self-control. I say this as a concession, not as a command. I wish that all men were as I am. But each man has his own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that. Now to the unmarried and widows I say this: It is good for them to remain unmarried, as I am.
Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.
Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me. Surely You desire truth in the inmost being; You teach me wisdom in the inmost place. Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.
If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.
Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
Jesus replied, “Even if I testify about Myself, My testimony is valid, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you do not know where I came from or where I am going.
I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.
Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.