Duties Of A Wife

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 →

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 →

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

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.

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,

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 wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

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.

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection, — read the full passage →

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

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

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

Unto the woman He said, `Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband <FI>is<Fi> thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'

`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.'

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

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

for a man, indeed, ought not to cover the head, being the image and glory of God, and a woman is the glory of a man, — read the full passage →

aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers, — read the full passage →

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of <FI>their<Fi> husbands, lovers of <FI>their<Fi> children,

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

and a woman who hath a husband unbelieving, and he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not send him away; — read the full passage →

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband; — read the full passage →

Her mouth she hath opened in wisdom, And the law of kindness <FI>is<Fi> on her tongue.

She hath done him good, and not evil, All days of her life.

The grace <FI>is<Fi> false, and the beauty <FI>is<Fi> vain, A woman fearing Jehovah, she may boast herself.

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

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

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

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

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

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of <FI>their<Fi> husbands, lovers of <FI>their<Fi> children, — read the full passage →

I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

sober, pure, keepers of <FI>their own<Fi> houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

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

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

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

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

because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ <FI>is<Fi> head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

Every wise woman hath builded her house, And the foolish with her hands breaketh it down.

but--the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible thing of the meek and quiet spirit, which is, before God, of great price,

as Sarah was obedient to Abraham, calling him `sir,' of whom ye did become daughters, doing good, and not fearing any terror.

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

Better to dwell in a wilderness land, Than <FI>with<Fi> a woman of contentions and anger.

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 heart of her husband hath trusted in her, And spoil he lacketh not.

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

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,

for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;

She <FI>is<Fi> watching the ways of her household, And bread of sloth she eateth not.

for a man is not of a woman, but a woman <FI>is<Fi> of a man,

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

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband; — read the full passage →

Her sons have risen up, and pronounce her happy, Her husband, and he praiseth her,

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

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

and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh?

but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also <FI>are<Fi> the wives to their own husbands in everything.

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

She hath girded with might her loins, And doth strengthen her arms.

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

so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'

Her hand she hath spread forth to the poor, Yea, her hands she sent forth to the needy.

`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 →

Yea, she riseth while yet night, And giveth food to her household, And a portion to her damsels.

`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;' — read the full passage →

`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;'

My people--its exactors <FI>are<Fi> sucklings, And women have ruled over it. My people--thy eulogists are causing to err, And the way of thy paths swallowed up.

And the heavens and the earth are completed, and all their host; — read the full passage →

But and if thou mayest marry, thou didst not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you.

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

And God saith, `Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.'

Linen garments she hath made, and selleth, And a girdle she hath given to the merchant.

Women--in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.

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 virgins, a command of the Lord I have not; and I give judgment as having obtained kindness from the Lord to be faithful: — 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 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,

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.

She is not afraid of her household from snow, For all her household are clothed <FI>with<Fi> scarlet.

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 →

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.

And he saith unto her, `As one of the foolish women speaketh, thou speakest; yea, the good we receive from God, and the evil we do not receive.' In all this Job hath not sinned with his lips.

`And a man who lieth with a sick woman, and hath uncovered her nakedness, her fountain he hath made bare, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood, --even both of them have been cut off from the midst of their people.

and the man saith, `This <FI>is<Fi> the <FI>proper<Fi> step! bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh!' for this it is called Woman, for from a man hath this been taken;

whose adorning--let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments,

And thou--be speaking what doth become the sound teaching; — read the full passage →

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

for a man also was not created because of the woman, but a woman because of the man;

and Abraham and Sarah <FI>are<Fi> aged, entering into days--the way of women hath ceased to be to Sarah;

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

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

Followers of me become ye, as I also <FI>am<Fi> of Christ. — read the full passage →

but I--I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.