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Honor Your Husband
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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; — read the full passage →
A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →
It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
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.
Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing; — read the full passage →
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands: — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
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; — read the full passage →
The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →
When the king’s decree which he shall make is published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give their husbands honor, both great and small.”
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.
Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.
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; — read the full passage →
She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.
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;
But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,
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.
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
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.
Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →
In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →
The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain.
Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.
“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:
And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →
Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’
Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.” — read the full passage →
God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →
She rises also while it is yet night, gives food to her household, and portions for her servant girls.
But say the things which fit sound doctrine, — read the full passage →
We love him, because he first loved us.
Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.
Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →
The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
Her husband is respected in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.
She seeks wool and flax, and works eagerly with her hands.
The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.
A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.
Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”
and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.
Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.
doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”
For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. — read the full passage →
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;
Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.
For man is not from woman, but woman from man;
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. — read the full passage →
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.
Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. — 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.
Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you, — read the full passage →
Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:
Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.
If the latter husband hates her, and write her a bill of divorce, and puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;
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