Choosing A Mate

In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. — read the full passage →

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

A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; Buta woman that feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised.

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

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

Walk with wise men, and thou shalt be wise; But the companion of fools shall smart for it.

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

because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:

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.

Shall two walk together, except they have agreed?

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

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;

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

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

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

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

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Where there is no 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.

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

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

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

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

Except Jehovah build the house, They labor in vain that build it: Except Jehovah keep the city, The watchman waketh but in vain.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

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

Prepare thy work without, And make it ready for thee in the field; And afterwards build thy house.

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye now are, if ye do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

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

Where no wise guidance is, the people falleth; But in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.

A scoffer seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not; But knowledge is easy unto him that hath understanding.

A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

Agree with thine adversary quickly, while thou art with him in the way; lest haply 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 might.

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 showed kindness unto my master.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in thy sight, O Jehovah, my rock, and my redeemer.

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

Every purpose is established by counsel; And by wise guidance make thou war.

For the law having a shadow of the goodthingsto come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect them that draw nigh. — 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 hardness of his face is changed. — read the full passage →

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

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

And it came to pass in the days when the judges judged, 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 Jehovah, and read: no one of these shall be missing, none shall want her mate; for my mouth, it hath commanded, and his Spirit, it hath gathered them.

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

But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each 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:

A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.

Delight thyself also in Jehovah; And he will give thee the desires of thy heart.

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

And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:

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

but they that wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.

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; — read the full passage →

Ye knowthis, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all 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 of the Dispersion, greeting. — 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 →

In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

Wives, be in subjection 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 were bought with a price; become not bondservants of men.

But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

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

Therefore I say unto you, All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

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 →

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;

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

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

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

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

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.

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband

Yet I would that all men were even as I myself. Howbeit each man hath his own gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are 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 every one that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

How beautiful are thy feet in sandals, O prince’s daughter! Thy rounded thighs are like jewels, The work of the hands of a skilful workman. — read the full passage →

God setteth the solitary in families: He bringeth out the prisoners into prosperity; But the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

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

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning.

For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and 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 goings.

and without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing unto him; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.

Now faith is assurance ofthingshoped for, a conviction of things not seen.

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

Masters, render unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven. — 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 →

For I would have you know how greatly I strive 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 imitators of God, as beloved children; — read the full passage →

But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

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

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.

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