Healthy Relationships

for all the law in one word is fulfilled--in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;'

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 →

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

At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.

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

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

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.

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

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 →

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

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Whoso is walking with wise men is wise, And a companion of fools suffereth evil.

wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do.

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;

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

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

`And with a male thou dost not lie as one lieth with a woman; abomination it <FI>is<Fi> .

`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

Dare any one of you, having a matter with the other, go to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

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

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

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.

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

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

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

but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing. — read the full passage →

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

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.

And Jehovah appeareth unto him among the oaks of Mamre, and he is sitting at the opening of the tent, about the heat of the day; — read the full passage →

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

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

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please--Christ's servant I should not be.

Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend.

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

A man with friends <FI>is<Fi> to show himself friendly, And there is a lover adhering more than a brother!

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

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

The two <FI>are<Fi> better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labour.

and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works,

and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh?

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

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

Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it <FI>are<Fi> the outgoings of life.

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness? — read the full passage →

Do two walk together if they have not met?

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

and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

For ye--to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger.

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

The two <FI>are<Fi> better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labour. — read the full passage →

and all, whatever ye may do--out of soul work--as to the Lord, and not to men,

the things above mind ye, not the things upon the earth,

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

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — read the full passage →

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

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart, And the sweetness of one's friend--from counsel of the soul.

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

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

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

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 →

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.

for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom, — read the full passage →

If possible--so far as in you--with all men being in peace;

Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

honour thy father and mother, and, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.'

For if they fall, the one raiseth up his companion, but woe to the one who falleth and there is not a second to raise him up!

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things. — read the full passage →

and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.

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,

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead, — read the full passage →

for where zeal and rivalry <FI>are<Fi> , there is insurrection and every evil matter;

the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering,

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

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

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

Jesus, therefore, having seen <FI>his<Fi> mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he was loving, he saith to his mother, `Woman, lo, thy son;' — read the full passage →

Be not therefore anxious for the morrow, for the morrow shall be anxious for its own things; sufficient for the day <FI>is<Fi> the evil of it.

Her sons have risen up, and pronounce her happy, Her husband, and he praiseth her, — read the full passage →

Let another praise thee, and not thine own mouth, A stranger, and not thine own lips.

Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who <FI>are<Fi> spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself--lest thou also may be tempted;

take up my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and humble in heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls,

Be not afraid, for with thee I <FI>am<Fi> , Look not around, for I <FI>am<Fi> thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

`Honour thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee, so that thy days are prolonged, and so that it is well with thee, on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

not giving back evil for evil, or railing for railing, and on the contrary, blessing, having known that to this ye were called, that a blessing ye may inherit;

Whoso is loving silver is not satisfied <FI>with<Fi> silver, nor he who is in love with stores <FI>with<Fi> increase. Even this <FI>is<Fi> vanity.

`Each his mother and his father ye do fear, and My sabbaths ye do keep; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God.

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'