Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. — read the full passage →
Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently:
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.
And behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was threescore furlongs from Jerusalem. — read the full passage →
Be not deceived: Evil companionships corrupt good morals.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.
But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
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.
Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →
And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Beroea: who when they were come thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. — read the full passage →
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread and the prayers. — read the full passage →
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.
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.
For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?
And Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
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;
and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works; — read the full passage →
Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.
I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.
who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things unto himself.
But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye have now taken. — read the full passage →
Sanctify them in the truth: thy word is truth.
Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me;
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time; — read the full passage →
Be ye free from the love of money; content with such things as ye have: for himself hath said, I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee.
who would have all men to be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth.
But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully, — read the full passage →
whatsoever ye do, work heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto men;
being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ:
Be not ye therefore partakers with them;
Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; — read the full passage →
We being Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband
The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife. — read the full passage →
Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ. — read the full passage →
Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged.
And this is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us:
that which we have seen and heard declare we unto you also, that ye also may have fellowship with us: yea, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ:
In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.
Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness: — read the full passage →
Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness:
So then, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;
who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped, — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; — read the full passage →
in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
and the scripture was fulfilled which saith, And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness; and he was called the friend of God.
Having then a great high priest, who hath passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. — read the full passage →
and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.
Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: ASV.