Communication In Marriage

So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

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

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

and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

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

Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ;

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

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.

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

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

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, `Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?' — read the full passage →

your word always in grace--with salt being seasoned--to know how it behoveth you to answer each one.

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

As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <FI>are<Fi> grave, as many as <FI>are<Fi> righteous, as many as <FI>are<Fi> pure, as many as <FI>are<Fi> lovely, as many as <FI>are<Fi> of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;

of no one to speak evil, not to be quarrelsome--gentle, showing all meekness to all men,

but now put off, even ye, the whole--anger, wrath, malice, evil-speaking, filthy talking--out of your mouth.

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one, — read the full passage →

and all, whatever ye may do--out of soul work--as to the Lord, and not to men,

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

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

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

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

wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do.

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed <FI>it<Fi> with the bathing of the water in the saying,

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

`Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed, and shaken, and running over, they shall give into your bosom; for with that measure with which ye measure, it shall be measured to you again.'

If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain <FI>is<Fi> the religion;

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God;

and the profane vain talkings stand aloof from, for to more impiety they will advance,

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

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 →

for from thy words thou shalt be declared righteous, and from thy words thou shalt be declared unrighteous.'

And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ; — read the full passage →

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 →

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

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

So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another;

`And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment;

not giving back evil for evil, or railing for railing, and on the contrary, blessing, having known that to this ye were called, that a blessing ye may inherit;

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

If possible--so far as in you--with all men being in peace;

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.

`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works, — read the full passage →

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

`Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that is killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto her, how often did I will to gather together thy children, as a hen her brood under the wings, and ye did not will.

for thus once also the holy women who did hope on God, were adorning themselves, being subject to their own husbands,

let your forbearance be known to all men; the Lord <FI>is<Fi> near;

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

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

for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that ye might be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you.

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 →

Be not therefore anxious for the morrow, for the morrow shall be anxious for its own things; sufficient for the day <FI>is<Fi> the evil of it.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

always rejoice ye; — read the full passage →

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

Jesus wept.

but exhort ye one another every day, while the To-day is called, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of the sin,