Finding A Wife

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

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

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

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 →

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

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

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

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

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.

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

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

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

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

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness. — read the full passage →

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.

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

An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment. — read the full passage →

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?’

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

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

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

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

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

Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding: — read the full passage →

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

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

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

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

But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

She opens her mouth with wisdom. Faithful instruction is on her tongue.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to 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 has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

“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 say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.

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.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →

An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

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

A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city; and disputes are like the bars of a castle.

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

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; — read the full passage →

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

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

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

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 →

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. — read the full passage →

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

He who gives answer before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.

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, — read the full passage →

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

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

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

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

and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire to her, and desire to take her as your wife; — read the full passage →

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

“There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don’t understand: — read the full passage →

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

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” — read the full passage →

For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.”

But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.

It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger; — read the full passage →

When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. — read the full passage →

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived, and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

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

Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

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

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised. — read the full passage →

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,

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp doesn’t go out by night.

She arms her waist with strength, and makes her arms strong.

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

Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:

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 →

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.

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 →