Finding Your Wife

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — 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,

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 →

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

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

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

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.

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 →

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

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

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

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

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

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — 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.

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

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

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

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

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

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

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →

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

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

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

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.

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — 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?’

If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

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

Her husband is respected in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.

She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.

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.”

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 →

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;

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 →

The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain. — read the full passage →

The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, the oracle: the man says to Ithiel, to Ithiel and Ucal: — read the full passage →

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

Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

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.

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 →

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

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.

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

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

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

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. — read the full passage →

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; — read the full passage →

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — read the full passage →

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 →

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

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