Bad Husbands

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.

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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

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.

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;

Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you. — 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.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

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;

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.

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 fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

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.

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.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

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

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.

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

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.

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

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

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.”

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.

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

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,

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

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.

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.”

He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

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

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

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

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 →

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

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.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

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.

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 →

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 →

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

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, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.

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

For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. — read the full passage →

The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper comparable to him. — read the full passage →

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” — 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 →

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 →

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

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

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

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

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; — 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 →

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

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.

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

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?’

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. — read the full passage →

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

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.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

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 →

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.