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Husband And Wife
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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.
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 the husband render unto the wife her due: 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 up for it;
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →
Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him. — read the full passage →
Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own 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.
But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
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.
If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.
There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness.
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →
Or 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 men, — 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;
But Peter and the apostles answered and said, We must obey God rather than men.
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:
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.
Let not your heart be troubled: believe in God, believe also in me. — read the full passage →
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
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;
Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →
And thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness. — read the full passage →
A worthy woman who can find? 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 come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings: — read the full passage →
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting 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, Have ye not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →
But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →
A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:
that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →
Nevertheless, neither is the woman without the man, nor the man without the woman, 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 neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. — read the full passage →
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →
Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Every one that committeth sin is the bondservant of sin.
But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them. — read the full passage →
to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:
Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; — read the full passage →
Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →
but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible apparel of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
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 →
For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as angels in heaven.
but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away 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 fornicators, for abusers of themselves with men, for menstealers, for liars, for false swearers, and if there be any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born unto them, — read the full passage →
And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a 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 →
But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:
as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye now are, if ye do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;
and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
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 →
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh — read the full passage →
For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: — read the full passage →
But of that day and hour knoweth no one, not even the angels of heaven, neither the Son, but the Father only.
And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
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. — 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 neighbor as thyself.
And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.
Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen of them: else ye have no reward with your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →
A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →
and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Jehovah drove out before the children of Israel.
And a great sign was seen in heaven: a woman arrayed 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 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;
beholding your chaste behaviorcoupledwith fear.
who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →
giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father; — 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 in you lieth, be at peace with all men.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →
and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
And the man 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, they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
And Jesus answered and spake again in parables unto them, saying, — read the full passage →
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. — read the full passage →
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