Christian Relationships

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

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; — read the full passage →

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

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

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

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

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

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.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? — read the full passage →

Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. — 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? — read the full passage →

God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.

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

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

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

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

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

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

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

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, — read the full passage →

If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

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.

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?

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

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

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

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: — read the full passage →

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. — read the full passage →

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

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.

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

Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. — read the full passage →

Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; — 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.

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;

Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

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

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.

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.

And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! — read the full passage →

And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

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

He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.

I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. — read the full passage →

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

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

Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight.

A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

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

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. — read the full passage →

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

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 →

Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

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 →

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

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

Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

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

Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. — read the full passage →

Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

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

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.