Finding A Good Husband

Wait for Jehovah: Be strong, and let thy heart take courage; Yea, wait thou for Jehovah.

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.

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

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning.

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

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

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.

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness? — read the full passage →

and without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing unto him; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.

A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.

But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not 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 Jehovah. — read the full passage →

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

If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

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.

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.

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.

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

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

Lo, children are a heritage of Jehovah; Andthe fruit of the womb ishisreward.

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

And he 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 →

A man’s goings are established of Jehovah; And he delighteth in his way.

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

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

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

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

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

A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

Delight thyself also in Jehovah; And he will give thee the desires of thy heart.

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.

but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.

I turned about, and my heart was set to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason of things, and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness.

Where no wise guidance is, the people falleth; But in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: My hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; My soul refused to be comforted.

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall 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 in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

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

O Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and knownme. — read the full passage →

And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, who hath not forsaken his lovingkindness and his truth toward my master: as for me, Jehovah hath led me in the way to the house of my master’s brethren.

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

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

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;

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

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

When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath taken.

But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law cometh the knowledge of sin.

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

And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →

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

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

but I say unto you, that every one that 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 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;

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?

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

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

A worthy woman who can find? 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 Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband

Therefore I say unto you, All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

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

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

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

Seek ye Jehovah and his strength; Seek his face evermore.

if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.

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

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice:

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that 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, shall we be saved by his life;

But God commendeth 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 only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth one that is put away from a husband committeth adultery.

Seek ye out of the book of Jehovah, and read: no one of these shall be missing, 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 labor. — read the full passage →

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

And a strong angel took up a stone as it were a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with a mighty fall shall Babylon, the great city, be cast down, and shall be found no more at all.

Women in like manner must be grave, 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 ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; — read the full passage →

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