Helpmeet

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

Who can find a virtuous woman? 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 fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

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.

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

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. — read the full passage →

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

The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.

Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.

That they may teach the young women to be sober, 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 are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:

Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

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

And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.

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.

Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, 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 the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:

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;

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.

Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints’ feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.

For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

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

And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

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

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 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.

Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, 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 cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:

Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.

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

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.

So 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 fowl of the air, 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 heaven and the earth. — read the full passage →

And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. — read the full passage →

Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

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

Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellowsoldier, and to the church in thy house:

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

Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,

And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

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

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

Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: — read the full passage →

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

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

For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.

For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

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

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of 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 because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not 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 →

Pride goeth before destruction, and an 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 pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

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 →

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