Following Your Husband

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband — read the full passage →

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

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

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

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.

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

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.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

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

and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?

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;

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

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called, — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.

How art thou fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, that didst lay low the nations!

But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

because we are members of his body.

for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

Wherefore he saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.

for ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks.

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

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.

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

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

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

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

to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:

This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.

that he might present the church to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

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

proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord;

For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →

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

beholding your chaste behaviorcoupledwith fear.

Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, — read the full passage →

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

Wherefore be ye not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

But all things when they are reproved are made manifest by the light: for everything that is made manifest is light.

(for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.

and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church,

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband

Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

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

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

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

And Jehovah said unto Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up unto Jehovah before the sun, that the fierce anger of Jehovah may turn away from Israel. — read the full passage →

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

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John; — read the full passage →

And who is he that will harm you, if ye be zealous of that which is good?

but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible apparel of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

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 →

Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.

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

(but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.

Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.

But Peter and the apostles answered and said, We must obey God rather than men.

For behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the breasts that never gave suck.

For no word from God shall be void of power.

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 →

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.

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.

Her children rise up, and call her blessed; Her husbandalso, and he praiseth her, saying:

She perceiveth that her merchandise is profitable; Her lamp goeth not out by night.

She girdeth her loins with strength, And maketh strong her arms.

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

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones Against the rock.

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, I have marked that which Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him in the way, when he came up out of Egypt.

And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, whom Jehovah thy God hath given thee, in the siege and in the distress wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee.

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 Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

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 →

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

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

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself: — read the full passage →

Be not ye therefore partakers with them;

Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. — read the full passage →

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.

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 →

Samaria shall bear her guilt; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword; their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining: