Abusing My Wife

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered. — read the full passage →

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

For I hate putting away, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith Jehovah of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

A soft answer turneth away wrath; But a grievous word stirreth up anger.

to speak evil of no man, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all meekness toward all men.

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself: — read the full passage →

There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Yet if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us in peace.

Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out; Yea, strife and ignominy will cease.

Arise, O Jehovah; O God, lift up thy hand: Forget not the poor. — read the full passage →

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth one that is put away from a husband committeth adultery.

Ye knowthis, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: — read the full passage →

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband — read the full passage →

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her. — read the full passage →

(but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.

Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

And this again ye do: ye cover the altar of Jehovah with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, neither receiveth it with good will at your hand. — read the full passage →

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.

Jehovah trieth the righteous; But the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which they received of us.

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; — read the full passage →

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

And there came unto him Pharisees, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? trying him. — read the full passage →

He saith unto them, Moses for your hardness of heart suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it hath not been so.

but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.

The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life; But violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives; — read the full passage →

If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man’s religion is vain.

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; them that are ill-treated, as being yourselves also in the body.

But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come. — read the full passage →

If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

Wherefore he saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice:

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

and in your godliness brotherly kindness; and in your brotherly kindness love.

Finally, be ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:

but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible apparel of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

My brethren, if any among you err from the truth, and one convert him; — read the full passage →

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy.

Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees;

and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works;

And yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Wherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do.

Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

but now do ye also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth:

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

not looking each of you to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear.

If it be possible, as much as in you lieth, be at peace with all men.

And whosoever shall cause one of these little ones that believe on me to stumble, it were better for him if a great millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.

and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greeting. — read the full passage →

and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works; — read the full passage →

Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. — read the full passage →

Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. — read the full passage →

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. — read the full passage →

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.

But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own; — read the full passage →

I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators; — read the full passage →

This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.

And there came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? — read the full passage →

And if thy brother sin against thee, go, show him his fault between thee and him alone: if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. — read the full passage →