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Husbands And Wives

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1 Peter 3:7

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.

Ephesians 5:25

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

1 Corinthians 7:1–40

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Colossians 3:19

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Ephesians 5:22–33

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:22

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Ephesians 5:28

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

Ephesians 5:31

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

1 Peter 3:1–6

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 →

1 Timothy 3:1–7

Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:25–29

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

Colossians 3:14

and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.

Ephesians 5:33

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

Ephesians 5:23

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.

Ephesians 5:21

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

1 Peter 3:1

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;

1 Timothy 5:8

But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Colossians 3:18

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

1 Corinthians 13:1–8

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Matthew 5:28

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.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Titus 2:5

to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:

1 Timothy 2:12

But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness.

Matthew 5:32

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.

1 Peter 3:6

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.

Matthew 19:4–6

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 →

1 Corinthians 7:2

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

1 Corinthians 11:9

for neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man:

Titus 2:1–15

But speak thou the things which befit the sound doctrine: — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:24

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

Ephesians 5:22–23

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 11:3

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.

Ephesians 5:22–24

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

James 4:1–17

Whence comewars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members? — read the full passage →

Mark 10:6–9

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

1 Timothy 5:1–25

Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brethren: — read the full passage →

Colossians 3:18–19

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

Ephesians 6:2

Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise),

Ephesians 5:26

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

Ephesians 5:25–27

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

1 Timothy 2:15

but she shall be saved through her child-bearing, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.

Ephesians 5:1–33

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

Matthew 7:1–29

Judge not, that ye be not judged. — read the full passage →

Colossians 3:17

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

Ephesians 6:4

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

1 Corinthians 13:4–8

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

Ephesians 4:32

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

Galatians 3:28

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.

Ephesians 5:25–33

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

1 Corinthians 7:3–5

Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. — read the full passage →

1 Peter 4:8

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

Titus 2:4–5

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →

Romans 12:9–18

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 10:13

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.

Ephesians 5:28–33

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 →

Matthew 19:5

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?

Philippians 4:13

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

1 Peter 3:2

beholding your chaste behaviorcoupledwith fear.

1 Corinthians 6:13

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:

Acts 5:29

But Peter and the apostles answered and said, We must obey God rather than men.

Colossians 3:21

Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.

1 Corinthians 7:3

Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

Ephesians 1:22

and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church,

1 Peter 3:4

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.

Colossians 3:20

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.

Matthew 19:3–9

And there came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? — read the full passage →

1 Peter 2:23

who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:

Ephesians 5:28–29

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 →

1 Corinthians 6:16

Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.

Luke 2:51

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth; and he was subject unto them: and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

Luke 16:1–31

And he said also unto the disciples, There was a certain rich man, who had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he was wasting his goods. — read the full passage →

Revelation 1:1

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;

1 Peter 2:18

Servants, bein subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

Titus 2:9

Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing to them in all things; not gainsaying;

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