Good 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 →

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

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

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

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 →

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

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

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.

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 →

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

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

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 →

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

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband; — read the full passage →

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

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> sons, A reward <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of the womb.

for thus once also the holy women who did hope on God, were adorning themselves, being subject to their own husbands,

The grace <FI>is<Fi> false, and the beauty <FI>is<Fi> vain, A woman fearing Jehovah, she may boast herself.

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 →

but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also <FI>are<Fi> the wives to their own husbands in everything.

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

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.'

She hath done him good, and not evil, All days of her life.

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

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

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,

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

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

but--the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible thing of the meek and quiet spirit, which is, before God, of great price,

And thou--be speaking what doth become the sound teaching; — read the full passage →

She hath considered a field, and taketh it, From the fruit of her hands she hath planted a vineyard.

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

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,

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves--

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

`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;'

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

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

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

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

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;

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

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

and to the married I announce--not I, but the Lord--let not a wife separate from a husband: — 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,

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

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

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.

whose adorning--let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments,

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

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

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

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;

for a man also was not created because of the woman, but a woman because of the man;

having beheld your pure behaviour in fear,

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

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

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 →

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

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

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

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

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

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

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

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

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 →

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;

She <FI>is<Fi> watching the ways of her household, And bread of sloth she eateth not.

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 →

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

Be not overcome by the evil, but overcome, in the good, the evil.

Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection,

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

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 →

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 →

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 →

Ornamental coverings she hath made for herself, Silk and purple <FI>are<Fi> her clothing.

Give ye to her of the fruit of her hands, And her works do praise her in the gates!

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,