Finding A Good Husband

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? — read the full passage →

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

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

If you love me, keep my commandments.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

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

For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ — read the full passage →

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become 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.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” — read the full passage →

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

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

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

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband

Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

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

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

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

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

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

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

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

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

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

Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, — read the full passage →

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

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