Finding Your Mate

Delight thyself also in Jehovah; And he will give thee the desires of thy heart.

Therefore I say unto you, All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a 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 Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end. — read the full passage →

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.

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

Seek ye out of the book of Jehovah, and read: no one of these shall be missing, 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 labor.

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 assurance ofthingshoped for, a conviction of things not seen.

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Trust in Jehovah with all thy heart, And lean not upon thine own understanding:

But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

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

but they that wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning.

But I say, Walk by 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 labor. — 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, In the innermost parts of thy house; Thy children like olive plants, Round about thy table.

and without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing unto him; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.

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

A man’s goings are established of Jehovah; And he delighteth in his way.

For he satisfieth the longing soul, And the hungry soul he filleth with good.

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 boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us:

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

But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Many daughters have done worthily, But thou excellest them all.

And Jehovah, 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 up for it;

He maketh the barren woman to keep house, And to bea joyful mother of children. Praise ye Jehovah.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hasteth toward the end, and shall not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.

For Jehovah God is a sun and a shield: Jehovah will give grace and glory; No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

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

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

A worthy woman is the crown of 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 of the Dispersion, greeting. — read the full passage →

A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free 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 households.

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives; — read the full passage →

Wait for Jehovah: Be strong, and let thy heart take courage; Yea, wait thou for Jehovah.

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,

Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth one that is put away from a husband committeth adultery.

God setteth the solitary in families: He bringeth out the prisoners into prosperity; But the rebellious dwell in a parched 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 the law of kindness is on her tongue.

to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that he may be glorified.

I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah In the land of the living.

Asa loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.

Trust in Jehovah with all thy heart, And lean not upon thine own understanding: — read the full passage →

And there came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and saying, 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 Jehovah 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 nations, I will be exalted in the earth.

My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. 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 even be 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, so is the man also by the woman; but all things are of God.

Thou shalt be blessed above all peoples: 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 abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →

The hand of Jehovah was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of Jehovah, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones. — read the full passage →

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

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and Jehovah 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 →

A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.

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

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?

And the God of all grace, who called you unto his eternal glory in Christ, after that ye have suffered a little while, shall himself perfect, establish, strengthen you.

It was but a little that I passed from them, When 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 our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

but I say unto you, that every one that 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 Jehovah, and their righteousness which is of me, saith Jehovah.

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

Jehovah answer thee in the day of trouble; The name of the God of Jacob set thee up on high; — read the full passage →

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

Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. — read the full passage →

who 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, Male and female made he them. — read the full passage →

And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. Jehovah make the woman that is come into thy house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephrathah, 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 captive, and pray unto Jehovah 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 taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom 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 toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

Counsel in the heart of man islikedeep 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 wicked, Nor standeth in the way of sinners, Nor sitteth in the seat of scoffers: — read the full passage →

Wives, be in subjection 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 in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ.

and seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and thou hast a desire unto her, and wouldest take her to thee to wife; — read the full passage →

But I would have you to be free from cares. He that is unmarried is careful for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord: — read the full passage →

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