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Finding Your Mate

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Psalms 37:4

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

Mark 11:24

Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.

Genesis 2:18

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

Matthew 7:7

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

Jeremiah 29:11–13

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 18:22

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

Matthew 6:33

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Isaiah 34:16

Search in the book of Yahweh, and read: not one of these will be missing. none will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.

Ecclesiastes 4:9

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

Genesis 2:24

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

Hebrews 11:1

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

Hebrews 13:4

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

Proverbs 3:5

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

James 1:5

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.

1 Corinthians 7:2

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

Isaiah 40:31

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

James 1:17

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.

Galatians 5:16

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Ecclesiastes 4:9–12

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

Isaiah 41:10

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Psalms 128:3

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

Hebrews 11:6

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

Proverbs 31:10–12

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

Psalms 37:23

A man’s goings are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

Psalms 107:9

For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.

1 Corinthians 6:18

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

1 John 5:14

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

1 Thessalonians 4:3–5

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 7:9

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

Proverbs 31:29

“Many women do noble things, but you excel them all.”

Deuteronomy 31:8

Yahweh himself is who goes before you. He will be with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be discouraged.”

Ephesians 5:25

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

Psalms 113:9

He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!

Habakkuk 2:3

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

Psalms 84:11

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

1 Peter 3:7

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.

Malachi 2:14–16

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 19:14

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

Proverbs 12:4

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

James 1:1–27

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 →

1 Corinthians 7:39

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.

Exodus 1:21

Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.

Romans 8:28

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

1 Peter 3:1–5

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 →

Psalms 27:14

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

Ephesians 3:20

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

Luke 16:18

Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

Psalms 68:6

God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

Proverbs 13:12

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

Proverbs 31:26

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

Isaiah 61:3

to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to 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 Yahweh, that he may be glorified.

Psalms 27:13

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

Proverbs 5:19

A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.

Proverbs 3:5–6

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

Matthew 19:3–9

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 →

Isaiah 62:4–5

You shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall your land any more be termed Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land shall be married. — read the full passage →

Psalms 46:10

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

1 John 2:1–29

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:3

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

Matthew 21:22

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

1 Corinthians 11:12

For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.

Deuteronomy 7:14

You shall be blessed above all peoples. There shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.

1 Thessalonians 4:3–8

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →

Ezekiel 37:1–28

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

Proverbs 10:24

What the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

1 Peter 4:8

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Genesis 24:1–67

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

John 1:1–51

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

Proverbs 31:10

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

Colossians 1:1–29

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

2 Corinthians 6:14

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

1 Peter 5:10

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Song of Solomon 3:4

I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Matthew 5:28

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

Isaiah 54:17

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of Yahweh, and their righteousness which is of me,” says Yahweh.

Matthew 5:31–32

“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’ — read the full passage →

Psalms 20:1–21:13

May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high, — read the full passage →

Genesis 2:23

The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”

Song of Solomon 3:1–5

By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him. — read the full passage →

Colossians 3:18–19

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

2 Corinthians 4:16–5:7

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. — read the full passage →

John 1:13

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

Mark 10:6–11:27

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

Ruth 4:11–12

All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 7:27–9:8

Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife. — read the full passage →

Jeremiah 29:7–16

Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to Yahweh for it; for in its peace you shall have peace. — read the full passage →

1 Samuel 17:50–18:27

So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine, and killed him; but there was no sword in the hand of David. — read the full passage →

Deuteronomy 24:5

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.

Exodus 12:38–13:11

A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock. — read the full passage →

Genesis 3:17

To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.

Matthew 19:4–6

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

Proverbs 20:5–9

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

Psalms 1:1–6

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:22–33

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

Luke 14:20–35

“Another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I can’t come.’ — read the full passage →

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Deuteronomy 21:11–13

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 →

1 Corinthians 7:32–35

But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; — read the full passage →

Matthew 19:12

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.”

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