Finding A Good Husband

Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

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

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

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

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.

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 →

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

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

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: — read the full passage →

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. — read the full passage →

For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. — read the full passage →

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

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.

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

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

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.

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 if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

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

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. — read the full passage →

The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.

Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

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

My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

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.

Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

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

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

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

But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: — read the full passage →

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

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

O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. — read the full passage →

And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the Lord led me to the house of my master’s brethren.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

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?

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 →

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? — read the full passage →

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

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

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; — read the full passage →

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

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, — read the full passage →

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually.

If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.

Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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 →

Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.

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

The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. — read the full passage →

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. — read the full passage →

And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, — read the full passage →

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; — read the full passage →

Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →