Finding Your Mate

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

Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

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

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. — read the full passage →

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

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read: no one of these shall fail, 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 labour.

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

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

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

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

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.

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

But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

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.

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

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

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

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

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

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

The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.

For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.

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

And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: — read the full passage →

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

Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.

And the Lord, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.

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

He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord.

For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

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.

Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. — read the full passage →

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

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

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. — 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 it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.

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.

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 →

Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

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

To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.

I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. — read the full passage →

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 →

Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi–bah, and thy land Beulah: for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. — read the full passage →

Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: — read the full passage →

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

And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.

For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.

Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: — read the full passage →

The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, — read the full passage →

The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.

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

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

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

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

No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.

It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: — read the full passage →

The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; — read the full passage →

And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. — read the full passage →

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

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. — read the full passage →

Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. — read the full passage →

And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The Lord make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Beth–lehem: — read the full passage →

Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. — read the full passage →

And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace. — read the full passage →

So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David. — 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 a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle. — read the full passage →

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

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 →

Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out. — read the full passage →

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. — read the full passage →

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

And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. — read the full passage →

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

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 →

But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: — 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.