Helpmeet

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

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

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

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.'

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.

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

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, — read the full passage →

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

The heart of her husband hath trusted in her, And spoil he lacketh not.

as Sarah was obedient to Abraham, calling him `sir,' of whom ye did become daughters, doing good, and not fearing any terror.

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of <FI>their<Fi> husbands, lovers of <FI>their<Fi> children,

For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee;

and she shall be saved through the child-bearing, if they remain in faith, and love, and sanctification, with sobriety.

Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection,

the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;

and not holding the head, from which all the body--through the joints and bands gathering supply, and being knit together--may increase with the increase of God.

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;

Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith;

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.

Known in the gates is her husband, In his sitting with elders of the land.

for not by will of man did ever prophecy come, but by the Holy Spirit borne on holy men of God spake.

for thus once also the holy women who did hope on God, were adorning themselves, being subject to their own husbands,

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,

and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

sober, pure, keepers of <FI>their own<Fi> houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,

if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate--

in good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;

for Adam was first formed, then Eve,

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

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

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

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 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.

Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith; — read the full passage →

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

for a man, indeed, ought not to cover the head, being the image and glory of God, and a woman is the glory of a man,

And I commend you to Phebe our sister--being a ministrant of the assembly that <FI>is<Fi> in Cenchrea--

so that he who is setting himself against the authority, against God's ordinance hath resisted; and those resisting, to themselves shall receive judgment.

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

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 God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

And God saith, `Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.'

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

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

who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might--through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,

aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers, — read the full passage →

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;

Ministrants--let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,

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

and a woman I do not suffer to teach, nor to rule a husband, but to be in quietness, — read the full passage →

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

each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others.

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him--head over all things to the assembly,

for God is not <FI>a God<Fi> of tumult, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

And concerning the spiritual things, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant; — read the full passage →

for as the woman <FI>is<Fi> of the man, so also the man <FI>is<Fi> through the woman, and the all things <FI>are<Fi> of God.

Followers of me become ye, as I also <FI>am<Fi> of Christ. — read the full passage →

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

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

And the heavens and the earth are completed, and all their host; — read the full passage →

and Apphia the beloved, and Archippus our fellow-soldier, and the assembly in thy house:

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

A widow--let her not be enrolled under sixty years of age, having been a wife of one husband,

and Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, into transgression came,

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

I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men: — read the full passage →

who is the image of the invisible God, first-born of all creation,

who, being in the form of God, thought <FI>it<Fi> not robbery to be equal to God, — read the full passage →

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves--

but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also <FI>are<Fi> the wives to their own husbands in everything.

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ;

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

because of this the woman ought to have <FI>a token of<Fi> authority upon the head, because of the messengers;

for if a woman is not covered--then let her be shorn, and if <FI>it is<Fi> a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven--let her be covered;

and every woman praying or prophesying with the head uncovered, doth dishonour her own head, for it is one and the same thing with her being shaven,

because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin;

While Peter is yet speaking these sayings, the Holy spirit fell upon all those hearing the word, — read the full passage →

And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a 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 to them--`Moses for your stiffness of heart did suffer you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it hath not been so.

Nebuchadnezzar the king hath made an image of gold, its height sixty cubits, its breadth six cubits; he hath raised it up in the valley of Dura, in the province of Babylon; — read the full passage →

Before destruction <FI>is<Fi> pride, And before stumbling--a haughty spirit.'

There is a way--right before a man, And its latter end <FI>are<Fi> ways of death.

and the eyes of them both are opened, and they know that they <FI>are<Fi> naked, and they sew fig-leaves, and make to themselves girdles.

And the woman seeth that the tree <FI>is<Fi> good for food, and that it <FI>is<Fi> pleasant to the eyes, and the tree is desirable to make <FI>one<Fi> wise, and she taketh of its fruit and eateth, and giveth also to her husband with her, and he doth eat;

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 of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou dost not eat of it, for in the day of thine eating of it--dying thou dost die.'

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