Healthy Marriage

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

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

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

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

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.

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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

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

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

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 →

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

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

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 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.

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 →

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

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

but speaking truth in love, may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, even Christ;

And there came unto him Pharisees, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? trying him. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth one that is put away from a husband committeth adultery.

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity: for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor wherein thou laborest under the sun.

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

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.

Every wise woman buildeth her house; But the foolish plucketh it down with her own hands.

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

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

The thief cometh not, but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

He that giveth answer before he heareth, It is folly and shame unto him.

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

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

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church;

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

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

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; — read the full passage →

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

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 →

And he found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome: and he came unto them;

Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. — read the full passage →

A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; But the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

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

And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. — read the full passage →

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vainglory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

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 →

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

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

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

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

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

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called,

So then ye are no more strangers and sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

But I would have you to be free from cares. He that is unmarried is careful for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord: — read the full passage →

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

who will render to every man according to his works: — read the full passage →

A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

For I hate putting away, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith Jehovah of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

And if a man prevail against him that is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well. — read the full passage →

When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →

Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

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

And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. — read the full passage →

And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

casting all your anxiety upon him, because he careth for you.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time; — read the full passage →

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

Ye knowthis, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works; — read the full passage →

To the pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness: — read the full passage →

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, give no occasion to the adversary for reviling:

whereunto he called you through our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. — read the full passage →

to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

So then, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; — read the full passage →

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men;

Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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