Healthy Marriage

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

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

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

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

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.

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

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

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.

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 →

so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'

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 →

`Thou dost not commit adultery.

As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <FI>are<Fi> grave, as many as <FI>are<Fi> righteous, as many as <FI>are<Fi> pure, as many as <FI>are<Fi> lovely, as many as <FI>are<Fi> of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;

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

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 →

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 →

be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath, — read the full passage →

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

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.'

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,

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ;

And the Pharisees, having come near, questioned him, if it is lawful for a husband to put away a wife, tempting him, — read the full passage →

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

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

and all the things reproved by the light are manifested, for everything that is manifested is light;

`Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.

See life with the wife whom thou hast loved, all the days of the life of thy vanity, that He hath given to thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity, for it <FI>is<Fi> thy portion in life, even of thy labour that thou art labouring at under the sun.

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

And ye have said, `Wherefore?' Because Jehovah hath testified between thee And the wife of thy youth, That thou hast dealt treacherously against her, And she thy companion, and thy covenant-wife.

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

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

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

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 →

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

`The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have <FI>it<Fi> abundantly.

Whoso is answering a matter before he heareth, Folly it is to him and shame.

A virtuous woman <FI>is<Fi> a crown to her husband, And as rottenness in his bones <FI>is<Fi> one causing shame.

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

I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,

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

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

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

but and if she may separate, let her remain unmarried, or to the husband let her be reconciled, and let not a husband send away a wife.

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

and having found a certain Jew, by name Aquilas, of Pontus by birth, lately come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife--because of Claudius having directed all the Jews to depart out of Rome--he came to them,

Then Jesus was led up to the wilderness by the Spirit, to be tempted by the Devil, — read the full passage →

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

Faithful are the wounds of a lover, And abundant the kisses of an enemy.

<FI> Whoso<Fi> hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

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 →

because all that <FI>is<Fi> in the world--the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life--is not of the Father, but of the world,

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 →

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord; — read the full passage →

this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;

`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;'

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, — read the full passage →

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, — read the full passage →

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called,

Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,

And I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord; — read the full passage →

Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

who shall render to each according to his works; — read the full passage →

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

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

For <FI>I<Fi> hate sending away, said Jehovah, God of Israel, And He <FI>who<Fi> hath covered violence with his clothing, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And ye do not deal treacherously.

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

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well. — read the full passage →

`When a man doth take a wife, and hath married her, and it hath been, if she doth not find grace in his eyes (for he hath found in her nakedness of anything), and he hath written for her a writing of divorce, and given <FI>it<Fi> into her hand, and sent her out of his house, — read the full passage →

`Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

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

And the heavens and the earth are completed, and all their host; — read the full passage →

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

be humbled, then, under the powerful hand of God, that you He may exalt in good time, — read the full passage →

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

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

and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works, — read the full passage →

all things, indeed, <FI>are<Fi> pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast <FI>is<Fi> nothing pure, but of them defiled <FI>are<Fi> even the mind and the conscience;

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness, — 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;

to which He did call you through our good news, to the acquiring of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

to whom God did will to make known what <FI>is<Fi> the riches of the glory of this secret among the nations--which is Christ in you, the hope of the glory,

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

but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made,

For, let this mind be in you that <FI>is<Fi> also in Christ Jesus,

because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

`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;' — read the full passage →

`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;' — 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; — read the full passage →

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed <FI>it<Fi> with the bathing of the water in the saying,

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, — read the full passage →

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, — read the full passage →

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

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

wherefore he saith, `Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.'

Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,