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 →

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.

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 →

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.

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

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?

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.

`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.

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.

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 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?

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

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

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,

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

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.

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;

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.'

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.

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,

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;

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'