Husbands

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;

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

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

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

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

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;

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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.

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

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

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

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

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. — read the full passage →

but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. — read the full passage →

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

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

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

and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

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

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 →

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

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

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

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

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

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

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

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

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

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

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 →

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 →

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

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

I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

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,

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

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

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.

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, — read the full passage →

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 →

But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. — read the full passage →

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. — read the full passage →

He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,

For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

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

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.

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

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

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

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

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

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

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. — read the full passage →

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

The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. — read the full passage →

For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.

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

Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

This, your stature, is like a palm tree, your breasts like its fruit. — read the full passage →

If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper comparable to him. — read the full passage →

seeing your pure behavior in fear.

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

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

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.

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.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

“You shall not commit adultery.

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

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

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.