Finding A Wife

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

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

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

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

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.

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

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

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

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

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

Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. — read the full passage →

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.

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

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

Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom. — read the full passage →

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?

For with God nothing shall be impossible.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. — read the full passage →

And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things. — read the full passage →

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

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

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

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

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.

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 →

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

And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

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

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

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

Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: — read the full passage →

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

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

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

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

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.

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

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.

A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.

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.

I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

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.

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; — read the full passage →

Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.

And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines. — read the full passage →

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

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; — read the full passage →

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

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

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

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

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. — 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.

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.

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: — read the full passage →

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

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

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

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

And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; — read the full passage →

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

There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: — read the full passage →

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

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? — read the full passage →

For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.

But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger, — read the full passage →

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.

And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. — read the full passage →

And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →

For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.

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.

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. — read the full passage →

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:

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night.

She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.

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

Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

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 →

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.

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 →