Honor Your Wife

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.

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

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

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

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

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife--himself he doth love;

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, — read the full passage →

but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

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

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

and to the married I announce--not I, but the Lord--let not a wife separate from a husband: — read the full passage →

<FI> Whoso<Fi> hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

but I--I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband; — read the full passage →

And ye have said, `Wherefore?' Because Jehovah hath testified between thee And the wife of thy youth, That thou hast dealt treacherously against her, And she thy companion, and thy covenant-wife.

By wisdom is a house builded, And by understanding it establisheth itself.

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

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

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men. — read the full passage →

we--we love him, because He--He first loved us;

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

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,

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,

And I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord; — read the full passage →

and to the married I announce--not I, but the Lord--let not a wife separate from a husband:

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth, — read the full passage →

For ye--to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

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, — read the full passage →

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

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed <FI>it<Fi> with the bathing of the water in the saying,

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

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

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

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

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

When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;

Her sons have risen up, and pronounce her happy, Her husband, and he praiseth her,

A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies <FI>is<Fi> her price.

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 shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh;'

Whoso is answering a matter before he heareth, Folly it is to him and shame.

Every wise woman hath builded her house, And the foolish with her hands breaketh it down.

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

`Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <FI>are<Fi> grave, as many as <FI>are<Fi> righteous, as many as <FI>are<Fi> pure, as many as <FI>are<Fi> lovely, as many as <FI>are<Fi> of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;

because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;

for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;

and Thou hast given to Thy servant an understanding heart, to judge Thy people, to discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this Thy great people?'

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, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

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 be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

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

giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men.

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

wherefore, we faint not, but if also our outward man doth decay, yet the inward is renewed day by day;

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.

House and wealth <FI>are<Fi> the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> an understanding wife.

greater than these things I have no joy, that I may hear of my children in truth walking.

but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted--Christ's--

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

and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise--to salvation, through faith that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus;

and the peace of God, that is surpassing all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife--himself he doth love; — read the full passage →

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, — read the full passage →

ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,

and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings; — read the full passage →

`And it was said, That whoever may put away his wife, let him give to her a writing of divorce;

Whoso is turning his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer <FI>is<Fi> an abomination.

Better to sit on a corner of the roof, Than <FI>with<Fi> a woman of contentions and a house of company.

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love--these three; and the greatest of these <FI>is<Fi> love.

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

According as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love;

With cords of man I do draw them, With thick cords of love, And I am to them as a raiser up of a yoke on their jaws, And I incline unto him--I feed <FI>him<Fi> .

Withhold not good from its owners, When thy hand <FI>is<Fi> toward God to do <FI>it<Fi> .

Iniquity, if I have seen in my heart, The Lord doth not hear.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

And before all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, and let your Yes be Yes, and the No, No; that under judgment ye may not fall.

The well-leading elders of double honour let them be counted worthy, especially those labouring in word and teaching,

and above all these things, <FI>have<Fi> love, which is a bond of the perfection,

honour thy father and mother,

for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord--the assembly,

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love, — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,