Following Your Husband

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: — read the full passage →

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

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

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

Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; — read the full passage →

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; 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 father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

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

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

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, — read the full passage →

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

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

But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

Wives, submit yourselves 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 give thee light.

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

Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling 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.

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

That he might present it 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 for it; — read the full passage →

Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.

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

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

Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.

While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.

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

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, — read the full passage →

That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.

(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

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

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

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

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants 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 followers of that which is good?

But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; — read the full passage →

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

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

But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

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

For with God nothing shall be impossible.

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

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; — read the full passage →

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. — read the full passage →

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. — read the full passage →

Be not ye therefore partakers with them.

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

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.