Abusive Marriages

the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

of no one to speak evil, not to be quarrelsome--gentle, showing all meekness to all men,

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife--himself he doth love;

And, if the unbelieving doth separate himself--let him separate himself: the brother or the sister is not under servitude in such <FI>cases<Fi> , and in peace hath God called us;

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

he who is saying, `I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;

And to the rest I speak--not the Lord--if any brother hath a wife unbelieving, and she is pleased to dwell with him, let him not send her away; — read the full passage →

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger.

For <FI>I<Fi> hate sending away, said Jehovah, God of Israel, And He <FI>who<Fi> hath covered violence with his clothing, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And ye do not deal treacherously.

And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, `Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?' — read the full passage →

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

`But, if thy right eye doth cause thee to stumble, pluck it out and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna.

And the Pharisees, having come near, questioned him, if it is lawful for a husband to put away a wife, tempting him, — read the full passage →

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

`Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not commit adultery; — read the full passage →

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife--himself he doth love; — read the full passage →

but I--I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

Better to sit on a corner of the roof, Than <FI>with<Fi> a woman of contentions and a house of company.

but and if she may separate, let her remain unmarried, or to the husband let her be reconciled, and let not a husband send away a wife.

`Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.

`And it was said, That whoever may put away his wife, let him give to her a writing of divorce; — read the full passage →

Better to sit on a corner of a roof, Than <FI>with<Fi> a woman of contentions, and a house of company.

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won, — read the full passage →

A continual dropping in a day of rain, And a woman of contentions are alike,

A virtuous woman <FI>is<Fi> a crown to her husband, And as rottenness in his bones <FI>is<Fi> one causing shame.

If thou dost return unto the Mighty Thou art built up, Thou puttest iniquity far from thy tents. — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus: — read the full passage →

Jehovah the righteous doth try. And the wicked and the lover of violence, Hath His soul hated,

And Samuel dieth, and all Israel are gathered, and mourn for him, and bury him in his house, in Ramah; and David riseth and goeth down unto the wilderness of Paran. — read the full passage →

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won, — read the full passage →

out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

and to the married I announce--not I, but the Lord--let not a wife separate from a husband: — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

`And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother; — read the full passage →

`And it was said, That whoever may put away his wife, let him give to her a writing of divorce;

And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,

but--the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible thing of the meek and quiet spirit, which is, before God, of great price,

having beheld your pure behaviour in fear,

Brethren, if any among you may go astray from the truth, and any one may turn him back, — read the full passage →

If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain <FI>is<Fi> the religion;

So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger, — read the full passage →

be mindful of those in bonds, as having been bound with them, of those maltreated, as also yourselves being in the body;

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother disorderly walking, and not after the deliverance that ye received from us,

all things prove; that which is good hold fast;

and we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the infirm, be patient unto all;

this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;

Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

also filthiness, and foolish talking, or jesting, --the things not fit--but rather thanksgiving;

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice,

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who <FI>are<Fi> spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself--lest thou also may be tempted;

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

for the unbelieving husband hath been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife hath been sanctified in the husband; otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

and to the married I announce--not I, but the Lord--let not a wife separate from a husband:

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

and now, I did write to you not to keep company with <FI>him<Fi> , if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner--with such a one not even to eat together;

`The Spirit of the Lord <FI>is<Fi> upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance, — read the full passage →

and he saith to them, `Whoever may put away his wife, and may marry another, doth commit adultery against her;

And he said to them, `All do not receive this word, but those to whom it hath been given;

`And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'

And it came to pass, when Jesus finished these words, he removed from Galilee, and did come to the borders of Judea, beyond the Jordan, — read the full passage →

`Happy those hungering and thirsting for righteousness--because they shall be filled.

And I see when (for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery) I have sent her away, and I give the bill of her divorce unto her, that treacherous Judah her sister hath not feared, and goeth and committeth fornication--she also.

And now, thus said Jehovah, Thy Creator, O Jacob, and thy Fashioner, O Israel, Be not afraid, for I have redeemed thee, I have called on thy name--thou <FI>art<Fi> Mine. — read the full passage →

Jehovah into judgment doth enter With elders of His people, and its heads: `And ye, ye have consumed the vineyard, Plunder of the poor <FI>is<Fi> in your houses.

Shew not thyself friendly with an angry man, And with a man of fury go not in, — read the full passage →

A man of great wrath is bearing punishment, For, if thou dost deliver, yet again thou dost add.

Death and life <FI>are<Fi> in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.

There is a way right before a man, And its latter end--ways of death.

A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger. — read the full passage →

A fountain of life <FI>is<Fi> the mouth of the righteous, And the mouth of the wicked cover doth violence.

Blessings <FI>are<Fi> for the head of the righteous, And the mouth of the wicked cover doth violence.

I have known that Jehovah doth execute The judgment of the afflicted, The judgment of the needy.

Near <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah to the broken of heart, And the bruised of spirit He saveth.