Topic
A Healthy Marriage
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Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →
Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →
In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →
To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.
Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well. — read the full passage →
“You shall not commit adultery.
But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; — read the full passage →
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →
In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →
“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.” — read the full passage →
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. — read the full passage →
Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →
Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant. — read the full passage →
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. — read the full passage →
If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →
Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.” — read the full passage →
Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. — read the full passage →
He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →
who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:” — read the full passage →
Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways. — read the full passage →
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. — read the full passage →
For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.
Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.
Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh. — read the full passage →
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. — read the full passage →
Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →
Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.
A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. — read the full passage →
Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” — read the full passage →
Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →
for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. — read the full passage →
Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.
casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
For everything spoken by God is possible.”
but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;
When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be to you.” — read the full passage →
If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →
So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. — read the full passage →
You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching; — read the full passage →
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. — read the full passage →
“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,
He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →
God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant. — read the full passage →
For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. — read the full passage →
For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →
He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
Don’t be envious of evil men; neither desire to be with them: — read the full passage →
Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. — read the full passage →
There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.
Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.” — read the full passage →
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it. — read the full passage →
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching; — read the full passage →
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →
The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s. Beloved — read the full passage →
So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers. — read the full passage →
Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Praise Yahweh, all you nations! Extol him, all you peoples! — read the full passage →
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
“Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,
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