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Husband And Wife
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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.
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
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.
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. — read the full passage →
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
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.
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: — read the full passage →
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, — read the full passage →
He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. — read the full passage →
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
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;
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →
Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness. — read the full passage →
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: — read the full passage →
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
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.
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →
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.
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. — 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.
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →
Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. — read the full passage →
And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. — read the full passage →
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →
Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. — read the full passage →
To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; — read the full passage →
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; — read the full passage →
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →
But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
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 →
For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →
For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, — read the full passage →
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: — read the full passage →
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; — read the full passage →
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. — read the full passage →
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: — read the full passage →
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: — read the full passage →
But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
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. — read the full passage →
And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. — read the full passage →
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →
And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: — read the full passage →
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:
While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →
Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. — read the full passage →
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
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.
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said, — 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. — read the full passage →
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