Healthy Marriage

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

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

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

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

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.

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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

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

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

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

“You shall not commit adultery.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

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

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 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.

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 →

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath, — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

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 the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

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

Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” — read the full passage →

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

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

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

Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

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.

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

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

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

He who gives answer before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife 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 assembly;

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

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

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →

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

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

He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,

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

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

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

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

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. — read the full passage →

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

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 →

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

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

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

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

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, 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 building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; — read the full passage →

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

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

who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:” — read the full passage →

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.

If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well. — read the full passage →

When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

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

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

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

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

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, — read the full passage →

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. — read the full passage →

to whom God was pleased to make known what are 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 you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, 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 in your mind, 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’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

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

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

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

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 assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

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