Finding A Good Husband

every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;

the things above mind ye, not the things upon the earth,

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

Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness? — read the full passage →

and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

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.

and to the married I announce--not I, but the Lord--let not a wife separate from a husband: — read the full passage →

all things prove; that which is good hold fast;

for other foundation no one is able to lay except that which is laid, which is Jesus the Christ; — read the full passage →

`If ye love me, my commands keep,

`Him it behoveth to increase, and me to become less;

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.

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

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

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.

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

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 Jesus said to him, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding-- — read the full passage →

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

A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will--only in the Lord;

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

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

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

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.

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.

`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;'

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.

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →

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

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

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,

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

for this is my blood of the new covenant, that for many is being poured out--to remission of sins;

and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.

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?

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 →

And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, `Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?' — 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.

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,

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, — read the full passage →

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

and to the married I announce--not I, but the Lord--let not a wife separate from a husband:

Because of this I say to you, all whatever--praying--ye do ask, believe that ye receive, and it shall be to you.

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

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate--

Ministrants--let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,

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

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

for if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in his life.

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

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. — read the full passage →

`Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.

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

And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place, — read the full passage →

And one strong messenger did take up a stone as a great millstone, and did cast <FI>it<Fi> to the sea, saying, `Thus with violence shall Babylon be cast, the great city, and may not be found any more at all;

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

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed <FI>it<Fi> with the bathing of the water in the saying, — read the full passage →

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

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