Finding Your Wife

<FI> Whoso<Fi> hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

A virtuous woman <FI>is<Fi> a crown to her husband, And as rottenness in his bones <FI>is<Fi> one causing shame.

House and wealth <FI>are<Fi> the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> an understanding wife.

A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies <FI>is<Fi> her price.

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper--as his counterpart.'

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies <FI>is<Fi> her price. — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

And delight thyself on Jehovah, And He giveth to thee the petitions of thy heart.

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

Women--in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.

and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made <FI>them<Fi> , from the beginning a male and a female made them, — read the full passage →

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

and above all these things, <FI>have<Fi> love, which is a bond of the perfection,

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love, — read the full passage →

A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will--only in the Lord;

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

what therefore God did join together, let not man put asunder.'

Words of Lemuel a king, a declaration that his mother taught him: — read the full passage →

Every wise woman hath builded her house, And the foolish with her hands breaketh it down.

Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not.

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of <FI>their<Fi> husbands, lovers of <FI>their<Fi> children, — read the full passage →

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

`for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh;'

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife--himself he doth love;

because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ <FI>is<Fi> head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love--these three; and the greatest of these <FI>is<Fi> love.

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh?

And if the one strengthen himself, the two stand against him; and the threefold cord is not hastily broken.

The two <FI>are<Fi> better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labour. — read the full passage →

Known in the gates is her husband, In his sitting with elders of the land.

Her hand she hath spread forth to the poor, Yea, her hands she sent forth to the needy.

Unto the woman He said, `Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband <FI>is<Fi> thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won, — read the full passage →

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

And to the rest I speak--not the Lord--if any brother hath a wife unbelieving, and she is pleased to dwell with him, let him not send her away;

and if they have not continence--let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;

And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I <FI>am<Fi> ;

for I wish all men to be even as I myself <FI>am<Fi> ; but each his own gift hath of God, one indeed thus, and one thus.

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them; — read the full passage →

And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, `Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?' — read the full passage →

The heart of her husband hath trusted in her, And spoil he lacketh not. — read the full passage →

Words of a Gatherer, son of an obedient one, the declaration, an affirmation of the man: --I have wearied myself <FI>for<Fi> God, I have wearied myself <FI>for<Fi> God, and am consumed. — read the full passage →

For <FI>an object of<Fi> desire he who is separated doth seek, With all wisdom he intermeddleth. — read the full passage →

and it cometh to pass, because the midwives have feared God, that He maketh for them households;

fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

as Sarah was obedient to Abraham, calling him `sir,' of whom ye did become daughters, doing good, and not fearing any terror.

So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;

James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail! — read the full passage →

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of <FI>their<Fi> husbands, lovers of <FI>their<Fi> children,

I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

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

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord; — read the full passage →

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled,

`Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.

but I--I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

Her sons have risen up, and pronounce her happy, Her husband, and he praiseth her,

Her mouth she hath opened in wisdom, And the law of kindness <FI>is<Fi> on her tongue.

She hath girded with might her loins, And doth strengthen her arms.

The heart of her husband hath trusted in her, And spoil he lacketh not.

A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies <FI>is<Fi> her price. — read the full passage →

Better to dwell in a wilderness land, Than <FI>with<Fi> a woman of contentions and anger.

Better to sit on a corner of the roof, Than <FI>with<Fi> a woman of contentions and a house of company.

For <FI>an object of<Fi> desire he who is separated doth seek, With all wisdom he intermeddleth.

and Isaac bringeth her in unto the tent of Sarah his mother, and he taketh Rebekah, and she becometh his wife, and he loveth her, and Isaac is comforted after <FI>the death of<Fi> his mother.

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them. — read the full passage →

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

sober, pure, keepers of <FI>their own<Fi> houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers, — read the full passage →

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth; — read the full passage →

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

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, — read the full passage →