Finding A Good Husband

Look unto Jehovah--be strong, And He doth strengthen thy heart, Yea, look unto Jehovah!

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

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

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;

And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, `Look not unto his appearance, and unto the height of his stature, for I have rejected him; for <FI>it is<Fi> not as man seeth--for man looketh at the eyes, and Jehovah looketh at the heart.'

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

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.

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.

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

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 not My thoughts <FI>are<Fi> your thoughts, Nor your ways My ways, --an affirmation of Jehovah, — read the full passage →

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 I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you--an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.

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 if wrong in your eyes to serve Jehovah--choose for you to-day whom ye do serve; --whether the gods whom your fathers served, which <FI>are<Fi> beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorite in whose land ye are dwelling; and I and my house--we serve Jehovah.'

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

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> sons, A reward <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of the womb.

for I have known him, that he commandeth his children, and his house after him (and they have kept the way of Jehovah), to do righteousness and judgment, that Jehovah may bring on Abraham that which He hath spoken concerning him.'

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,

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

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 →

From Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> the steps of a man, They have been prepared, And his way he desireth.

O the happiness of a man, To whom Jehovah imputeth not iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no deceit.

And those teaching do shine as the brightness of the expanse, and those justifying the multitude as stars to the age and for ever.

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

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

My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing.

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 delight thyself on Jehovah, And He giveth to thee the petitions of thy heart.

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.

I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness.

Without counsels do a people fall, And deliverance <FI>is<Fi> in a multitude of counsellors.

In a day of my distress the Lord I sought, My hand by night hath been spread out, And it doth not cease, My soul hath refused to be comforted.

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 →

To the Overseer. --A Psalm by David. Jehovah, Thou hast searched me, and knowest. — read the full passage →

and saith, `Blessed <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah, God of my lord Abraham, who hath not left off His kindness and His truth with my lord; --I <FI>being<Fi> in the way, Jehovah hath led me to the house of my lord's brethren.'

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

The law of his God <FI>is<Fi> his heart, His steps do not slide.

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;

`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 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 →

Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth, — 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 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?

See life with the wife whom thou hast loved, all the days of the life of thy vanity, that He hath given to thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity, for it <FI>is<Fi> thy portion in life, even of thy labour that thou art labouring at under the sun.

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

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

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well.

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;

Seek ye Jehovah and His strength, Seek His face continually.

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.

Seek out of the book of Jehovah, and read, One of these hath not been lacking, None hath missed its companion, For My mouth--it hath commanded, And His spirit--He hath gathered them.

The two <FI>are<Fi> better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labour. — read the full passage →

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

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →

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 →