Honor Your Wife

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.

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

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

Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

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; — read the full passage →

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband — read the full passage →

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

but I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. — read the full passage →

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice:

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Render to no man evil for evil. Take thought for things honorable in the sight of all men. — read the full passage →

We love, because he first loved us.

In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

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;

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

My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

Finally, be ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:

But I would have you to be free from cares. He that is unmarried is careful for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord: — read the full passage →

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband

And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.

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; — read the full passage →

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.

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

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.

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

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; — read the full passage →

Ye knowthis, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren:

For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

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 be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;

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

Render to no man evil for evil. Take thought for things honorable in the sight of all men.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

casting all your anxiety upon him, because he careth for you.

for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

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.

Greater joy have I none than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth.

but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, even the blood of Christ:

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

and that from a babe thou hast known the sacred writings which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself: — read the full passage →

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

And 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 have not love, I am nothing.

But him that is weak in faith receive ye, yet not for decision of scruples. — read the full passage →

It was said also, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my love.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay; that ye fall not under judgment.

Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.

Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise),

for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;