Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: — read the full passage →
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; — read the full passage →
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. — read the full passage →
Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not. — read the full passage →
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee: — read the full passage →
But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; — read the full passage →
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →
Neither give place to the devil.
Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
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.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: — read the full passage →
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. — read the full passage →
There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: — read the full passage →
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; — read the full passage →
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. — read the full passage →
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope; — read the full passage →
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; — read the full passage →
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. — read the full passage →
Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; — read the full passage →
If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →
While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. — read the full passage →
Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. — read the full passage →
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, — read the full passage →
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: — read the full passage →
Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: KJV.