Help Mate

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

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

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

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

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. — read the full passage →

Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.

And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

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

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

That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; — read the full passage →

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. — read the full passage →

And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

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

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.

For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? — read the full passage →

And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

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

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, — read the full passage →

Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellowprisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband’s, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz. — read the full passage →

Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy. — read the full passage →

Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

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

And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; — read the full passage →

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: — read the full passage →

And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way. — read the full passage →

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: — read the full passage →

And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia: — read the full passage →

When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, — read the full passage →

I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me.

And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that. — read the full passage →

And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: — read the full passage →

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

And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?

For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.

Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.