Helpmeet

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

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

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper comparable to him.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

for neither was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.

The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain.

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you 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,

I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you;

but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says.

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 respected in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.

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

For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

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

if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has 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 you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;

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

For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

If they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a woman to chatter in the assembly.

let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says. — read the full passage →

For man is not from woman, but woman from man;

For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the assembly that is at Cenchreae,

Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.

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

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

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 sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

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

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 →

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, 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, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

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

But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.

But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority 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 →

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

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,

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

Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant. — read the full passage →

For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.

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

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →

to the beloved Apphia, to Archippus, our fellow soldier, and to the assembly in your house:

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

Adam wasn’t deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;

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

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, 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, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, — read the full passage →

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

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

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

Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.

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

For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the word. — read the full passage →

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son 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 said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

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

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.

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 some of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” — read the full passage →

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

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