Honor Your Wife

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.

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

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

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

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; — read the full passage →

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

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

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: — read the full passage →

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. — read the full passage →

Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. — read the full passage →

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. — read the full passage →

We love him, because he first loved us.

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

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;

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

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

Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: — read the full passage →

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

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

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

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; — read the full passage →

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

That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

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

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

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

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

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

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.

Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; — read the full passage →

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, 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 did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

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 be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

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

Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

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

Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the 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.

House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

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

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

And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, 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 keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. — read the full passage →

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

That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. — read the full passage →

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

He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

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

As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.

If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants 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 heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.

Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.

And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)

For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord 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;