Christian Marriage

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

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

<FI> Whoso<Fi> hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

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.

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

`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.'

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord; — read the full passage →

And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper--as his counterpart.'

The two <FI>are<Fi> better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labour. — read the full passage →

House and wealth <FI>are<Fi> the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> an understanding wife.

let all your things be done in love.

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

and they shall be--the two--for one flesh; so that they are no more two, but one flesh; — read the full passage →

A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies <FI>is<Fi> her price.

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

`When a man taketh a new wife, he doth not go out into the host, and <FI>one<Fi> doth not pass over unto him for anything; free he is at his own house one year, and hath rejoiced his wife whom he hath taken.

And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made <FI>them<Fi> , from the beginning a male and a female made them, — read the full passage →

And Jehovah God buildeth up the rib which He hath taken out of the man into a woman, and bringeth her in unto the man; — read the full passage →

and above all these things, <FI>have<Fi> love, which is a bond of the perfection,

`for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh;'

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love--these three; and the greatest of these <FI>is<Fi> love.

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another; — 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.

what therefore God did join together, let not man put asunder.'

For a young man doth marry a virgin, Thy Builders do marry thee, With the joy of a bridegroom over a bride, Rejoice over thee doth thy God.

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

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

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, — read the full passage →

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 →

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 →

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 the one strengthen himself, the two stand against him; and the threefold cord is not hastily broken.

Kindness and truth have met, Righteousness and peace have kissed,

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God; — 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 →

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, — read the full passage →

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love, — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

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 →

A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will--only in the Lord;

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them; — read the full passage →

and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there. — 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.

And this a second time ye do, Covering with tears the altar of Jehovah, With weeping and groaning, Because there is no more turning unto the present, Or receiving of a pleasing thing from your hand. — read the full passage →

But a little I passed on from them, Till I found him whom my soul hath loved! I seized him, and let him not go, Till I brought him in unto the house of my mother--And the chamber of her that conceived me.

The two <FI>are<Fi> better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labour.

A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies <FI>is<Fi> her price. — read the full passage →

A multitude of men proclaim each his kindness, And a man of stedfastness who doth find? — read the full passage →

Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.

Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth, — read the full passage →

And Joash doth that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah all the days of Jehoiada the priest. — read the full passage →

And the man calleth names to all the cattle, and to fowl of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; and to man hath not been found an helper--as his counterpart. — read the full passage →

and God completeth by the seventh day His work which He hath made, and ceaseth by the seventh day from all His work which He hath made.

Jesus answered and said to him, `That which I do thou hast not known now, but thou shalt know after these things;'

Let brotherly love remain; — read the full passage →

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

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.

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

`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.' — read the full passage →

See life with the wife whom thou hast loved, all the days of the life of thy vanity, that He hath given to thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity, for it <FI>is<Fi> thy portion in life, even of thy labour that thou art labouring at under the sun.

Words of Lemuel a king, a declaration that his mother taught him: — read the full passage →

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

`And thou dost not join in marriage with them; thy daughter thou dost not give to his son, and his daughter thou dost not take to thy son, — read the full passage →

A Song of the Ascents, by Solomon. If Jehovah doth not build the house, In vain have its builders laboured at it, If Jehovah doth not watch a city, In vain hath a watchman waked.

Give ye thanks to Jehovah--call ye in His name, Make known among the peoples His acts. — read the full passage →

And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made <FI>them<Fi> , from the beginning a male and a female made them,