Christian Relationships

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

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

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.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

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.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good. — read the full passage →

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? — read the full passage →

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

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

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 →

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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

Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

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.

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?’

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, — read the full passage →

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new. — read the full passage →

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. — read the full passage →

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

Don’t you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment; — read the full passage →

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

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

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

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

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

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.

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold your son!” — read the full passage →

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

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

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

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 →

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

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

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.