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A Husband
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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 →
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.
But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
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.
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →
Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.
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 →
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.
Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man? — 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.”
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 →
For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — 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 →
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.”
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 →
and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →
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 →
but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →
You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
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;
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. — read the full passage →
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.
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.
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
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 →
if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — 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 →
No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
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 →
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 →
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.
When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.
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,
Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. — read the full passage →
Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →
Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →
The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.
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 →
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, — read the full passage →
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →
Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, — read the full passage →
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →
But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband
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.
I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”
The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →
that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching; — read the full passage →
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →
“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,
He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,
(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. — read the full passage →
For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife, — read the full passage →
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. — read the full passage →
My beloved is mine, and I am his. He browses among the lilies.
I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
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