Choosing A Mate

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. — read the full passage →

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

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

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

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.

Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

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

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.

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

And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. — read the full passage →

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 →

Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.

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

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.

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.

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.

A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. — read the full passage →

A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.

And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master.

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.

For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. — read the full passage →

Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man’s wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed. — read the full passage →

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth–lehem–judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.

I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

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 →

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

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

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

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. — read the full passage →

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

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.

Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

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

Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

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

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:

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, — read the full passage →

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

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

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince’s daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman. — read the full passage →

God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things. — read the full passage →

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: — read the full passage →

Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; — read the full passage →

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.