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Husbands And Wives

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1 Peter 3:7

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.

Ephesians 5:25

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

1 Corinthians 7:1–40

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 →

Colossians 3:19

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

Ephesians 5:22–33

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

Ephesians 5:22

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

Ephesians 5:28

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

Proverbs 31:10–31

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:31

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

Hebrews 13:4

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

1 Peter 3:1–6

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 →

Proverbs 18:22

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

1 Timothy 3:1–7

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:25–29

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

Colossians 3:14

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

Ephesians 5:33

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

Ephesians 5:23

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.

Genesis 2:24

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

Ephesians 5:21

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Ecclesiastes 4:9–11

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

1 Peter 3:1

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;

1 Timothy 5:8

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.

Proverbs 5:18–19

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

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 languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Matthew 5:28

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

Genesis 3:16

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.”

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Titus 2:5

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

1 Timothy 2:12

But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.

Matthew 5:32

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.

1 Peter 3:6

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.

Matthew 19:4–6

He answered, “Haven’t you 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 sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

1 Corinthians 11:9

for neither was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.

Titus 2:1–15

But say the things which fit sound doctrine, — read the full passage →

Ecclesiastes 9:9

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.

Ephesians 5:24

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

Proverbs 14:1

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

Ephesians 5:22–23

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

Genesis 1:27

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

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

James 4:1–17

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? — read the full passage →

Mark 10:6–9

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

Proverbs 1:8

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

1 Timothy 5:1–25

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — 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 your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

Song of Solomon 7:7–12

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

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 assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

1 Timothy 2:15

but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.

Ephesians 5:1–33

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

Matthew 7:1–29

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 12:4

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

Colossians 3:17

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.

Ephesians 6:4

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

1 Corinthians 13:4–8

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

Ephesians 4:32

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

Genesis 2:18–24

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

Galatians 3:28

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.

Proverbs 31:1–31

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

Ephesians 5:25–33

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

Proverbs 19:14

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

1 Corinthians 7:3–5

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

1 Peter 4:8

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers 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. Cling to that which is good. — read the full passage →

Song of Solomon 4:9–10

You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 10:13

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.

Malachi 2:14

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.

Ephesians 5:28–33

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 →

Matthew 19:5

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?’

Philippians 4:13

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Psalms 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

1 Peter 3:2

seeing your pure behavior in fear.

1 Corinthians 6:13

“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

Acts 5:29

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

Colossians 3:21

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

1 Corinthians 7:3

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

Ephesians 1:22

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

Proverbs 31:10

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

Exodus 21:22–25

“If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman’s husband demands and the judges allow. — read the full passage →

1 Peter 3:4

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.

Colossians 3:20

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

Psalms 91:1–16

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →

Matthew 19:3–9

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” — read the full passage →

Genesis 2:23

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.”

1 Peter 2:23

Who, when he was cursed, didn’t curse back. When he suffered, didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;

Ephesians 5:28–29

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 →

1 Corinthians 6:16

Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”

Luke 2:51

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

Luke 16:1–31

He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions. — read the full passage →

Psalms 51:1–19

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. — read the full passage →

Revelation 1:1

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,

1 Peter 2:18

Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.

Titus 2:9

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

Jeremiah 29:11

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.

Song of Solomon 1:2–4

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine. — read the full passage →

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