Helpmeet

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

A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

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

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 birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

And the man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but for man there was not found a help meet for him.

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

for neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man:

The heart of her husband trusteth in her, And he shall have no lack of gain.

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye now are, if ye do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that were wanting, and appoint elders in every city, as I gave thee charge;

but she shall be saved through her child-bearing, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

and not holding fast the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, increaseth with the increase of God.

There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.

let the women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as also saith the law.

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.

Her husband is known in the gates, When he sitteth among the elders of the land.

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;

and without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing unto him; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.

to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:

that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.

well reported of for good works; if she hath brought up children, if she hath used hospitality to strangers, if she hath washed the saints’ feet, if she hath relieved the afflicted, if she hath diligently followed every good work.

For Adam was first formed, then Eve;

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. — read the full passage →

and in him ye are made full, who is the head of all principality and power:

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

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

And if they would learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home: for it is shameful for a woman to speak in the church.

let the women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as also saith the law. — read the full passage →

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

For a man indeed ought not to have his head veiled, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

I commend unto you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the church that is at Cenchreæ:

Therefore he that resisteth the power, withstandeth the ordinance of God: and they that withstand shall receive to themselves judgment.

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

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

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

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

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

And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. — read the full passage →

who being the effulgence of his glory, and the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; — read the full passage →

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, give no occasion to the adversary for reviling:

Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness.

But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness. — read the full passage →

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. — read the full passage →

not looking each of you to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church,

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

Now concerning spiritualgifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. — read the full passage →

For as the woman is of the man, so is the man also by the woman; but all things are of God.

Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

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

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

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

and to Apphia our sister, and to Archippus our fellow-soldier, and to the church in thy house:

Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness:

Let none be enrolled as a widow under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,

and Adam was not beguiled, but the woman being beguiled hath fallen into transgression:

For Adam was first formed, then Eve; — read the full passage →

I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men; — read the full passage →

who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation;

who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped, — read the full passage →

doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;

But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.

but speaking truth in love, may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, even Christ;

Nevertheless, neither is the woman without the man, nor the man without the woman, in the Lord.

for this cause ought the woman to have a sign of authority on her head, because of the angels.

For if a woman is not veiled, let her also be shorn: but if it is a shame to a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be veiled.

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonoreth her head; for it is one and the same thing as if she were shaven.

Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned:—

While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all them that heard the word. — read the full passage →

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

He saith unto them, Moses for your hardness of heart suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it hath not been so.

Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. — read the full passage →

Pridegoethbefore destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; But the end thereof are the ways of death.

And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.

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

but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

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