Following Your Husband

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →

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

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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

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

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.

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

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.”

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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.

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

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?’

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;

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

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction 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, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →

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 →

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.

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.

How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

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.

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

For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

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

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have 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 →

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

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

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

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

This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

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

proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

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

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →

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.

seeing your pure behavior in fear.

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

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

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,

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.

for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband

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

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

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 →

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

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

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

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, — read the full passage →

Now who is he who will harm you, if you become imitators of that which is good?

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.

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 →

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

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

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

Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”

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

For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

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

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

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.

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

She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp doesn’t go out by night.

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

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

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

Happy shall he be, who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock.

Thus says Yahweh of Armies, ‘I have marked that which Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way, when he came up out of Egypt.

You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you.

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.

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

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 →

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 husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. — read the full passage →

Therefore don’t be partakers with them.

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. — read the full passage →

I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

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 →

Samaria will bear her guilt; for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.”

We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. We left no one remaining.