Help Mate

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

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

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

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 I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

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

And Jehovah God buildeth up the rib which He hath taken out of the man into a woman, and bringeth her in unto the man;

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

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

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

for a man is not of a woman, but a woman <FI>is<Fi> of a man, — read the full passage →

Better <FI>is<Fi> a dry morsel, and rest with it, Than a house full of the sacrifices of strife.

And the man calleth names to all the cattle, and to fowl of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; and to man hath not been found an helper--as his counterpart.

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

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.

that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same anxiety for one another,

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.'

And Jehovah God causeth a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he sleepeth, and He taketh one of his ribs, and closeth up flesh in its stead.

And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'

for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord--the assembly,

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,

and the man saith, `This <FI>is<Fi> the <FI>proper<Fi> step! bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh!' for this it is called Woman, for from a man hath this been taken;

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 →

and a woman I do not suffer to teach, nor to rule a husband, but to be in quietness,

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. — read the full passage →

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth-- — read the full passage →

and whether one member doth suffer, suffer with <FI>it<Fi> do all the members, or one member is glorified, rejoice with <FI>it<Fi> do all the members;

and an eye is not able to say to the hand, `I have no need of thee;' nor again the head to the feet, `I have no need of you.'

but neither <FI>is<Fi> a man apart from a woman, nor a woman apart from a man, in the Lord,

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

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

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

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

for a man also was not created because of the woman, but a woman because of the man;

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 as ye wish that men may do to you, do ye also to them in like manner;

And God calleth to the dry land `Earth,' and to the collection of the waters He hath called `Seas;' and God seeth that <FI>it is<Fi> good.

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;

for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

And the serpent hath been subtile above every beast of the field which Jehovah God hath made, and he saith unto the woman, `Is it true that God hath said, Ye do not eat of every tree of the garden?' — read the full passage →

And Jehovah God formeth from the ground every beast of the field, and every fowl of the heavens, and bringeth in unto the man, to see what he doth call it; and whatever the man calleth a living creature, that <FI>is<Fi> its name.

and if they wish to learn anything, at home their own husbands let them question, for it is a shame to women to speak in an assembly.

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

And Jehovah God formeth the man--dust from the ground, and breatheth into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becometh a living creature.

and God calleth to the light `Day,' and to the darkness He hath called `Night;' and there is an evening, and there is a morning--day one.

and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him--how doth the love of God remain in him?

willing to be teachers of law, not understanding either the things they say, nor concerning what they asseverate,

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

salute Andronicus and Junias, my kindred, and my fellow-captives, who are of note among the apostles, who also have been in Christ before me.

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

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.

Words of Lemuel a king, a declaration that his mother taught him: — read the full passage →

And Naomi hath an acquaintance of her husband's, a man mighty in wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name <FI>is<Fi> Boaz. — read the full passage →

`And this <FI>is<Fi> a law of the guilt-offering: it <FI>is<Fi> most holy; — read the full passage →

a male and a female He hath prepared them, and He blesseth them, and calleth their name Man, in the day of their being prepared.

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 name of the second river <FI>is<Fi> Gibon, it <FI>is<Fi> that which is surrounding the whole land of Cush;

and no shrub of the field is yet in the earth, and no herb of the field yet sprouteth, for Jehovah God hath not rained upon the earth, and a man there is not to serve the ground,

And the earth bringeth forth tender grass, herb sowing seed after its kind, and tree making fruit (whose seed <FI>is<Fi> in itself) after its kind; and God seeth that <FI>it is<Fi> good;

And God seeth the light that <FI>it is<Fi> good, and God separateth between the light and the darkness,

whose adorning--let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments, — read the full passage →

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

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection,

and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

and He gave some <FI>as<Fi> apostles, and some <FI>as<Fi> prophets, and some <FI>as<Fi> proclaimers of good news, and some <FI>as<Fi> shepherds and teachers,

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

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,

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 →

and having been divinely warned in a dream not to turn back unto Herod, through another way they withdrew to their own region. — read the full passage →

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

`And this <FI>is<Fi> the command, the statutes and the judgments which Jehovah your God hath commanded to teach you, to do in the land which ye are passing over thither to possess it, — read the full passage →

And Jehovah God saith to the woman, `What <FI>is<Fi> this thou hast done?' and the woman saith, `The serpent hath caused me to forget--and I do eat.'

for Adam was first formed, then Eve,

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

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia: — read the full passage →

When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus more disciples doth make and baptize than John, — read the full passage →

I <FI>am<Fi> my beloved's, and on me <FI>is<Fi> his desire.

And God prepareth the great monsters, and every living creature that is creeping, which the waters have teemed with, after their kind, and every fowl with wing, after its kind, and God seeth that <FI>it is<Fi> good.

And God calleth to the expanse `Heavens;' and there is an evening, and there is a morning--day second.

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,

and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

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

also filthiness, and foolish talking, or jesting, --the things not fit--but rather thanksgiving;

A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will--only in the Lord;

for I wish all men to be even as I myself <FI>am<Fi> ; but each his own gift hath of God, one indeed thus, and one thus. — read the full passage →

And Jehovah God taketh the man, and causeth him to rest in the garden of Eden, to serve it, and to keep it.

These <FI>are<Fi> births of the heavens and of the earth in their being prepared, in the day of Jehovah God's making earth and heavens;

And God blesseth the seventh day, and sanctifieth it, for in it He hath ceased from all His work which God had prepared for making.

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, — read the full passage →

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

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,

one body and one Spirit, according as also ye were 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 indeed have long hair, a dishonour it is to him?

for a man is not of a woman, but a woman <FI>is<Fi> of a man,

who for my life their own neck did lay down, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the nations--

Not for kings, O Lemuel, Not for kings, to drink wine, And for princes a desire of strong drink.

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