Honor Your Wife

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.

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

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

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

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

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

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 →

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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

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.

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

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.

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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

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.

Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established;

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 →

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

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

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men. — read the full passage →

We love him, because he first loved us.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

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;

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

My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,

But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; — read the full passage →

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

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

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

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

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

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

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

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

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

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

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

He who gives answer before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved 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.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

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.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

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.

Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this your great people?”

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

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

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.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

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

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

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

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

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

Therefore we don’t faint, 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.

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

I have no greater joy than this, to hear about my children walking in truth.

but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, the blood of Christ;

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

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

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

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 →

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

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

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.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’

He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

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

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love; and I was to them like those who lift up the yoke on their necks; and I bent down to him and I fed him.

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

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 above all things, my brothers, don’t swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”; so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.

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

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;