Husbands And Wives

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife--himself he doth love;

A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies <FI>is<Fi> her price. — read the full passage →

`for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh;'

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won, — read the full passage →

<FI> Whoso<Fi> hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth; — read the full passage →

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, — read the full passage →

and above all these things, <FI>have<Fi> love, which is a bond of the perfection,

but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.

because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ <FI>is<Fi> head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

The two <FI>are<Fi> better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labour. — read the full passage →

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth, — read the full passage →

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

but I--I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

Unto the woman He said, `Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband <FI>is<Fi> thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

sober, pure, keepers of <FI>their own<Fi> houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

and a woman I do not suffer to teach, nor to rule a husband, but to be in quietness,

but I--I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

as Sarah was obedient to Abraham, calling him `sir,' of whom ye did become daughters, doing good, and not fearing any terror.

And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made <FI>them<Fi> , from the beginning a male and a female made them, — read the full passage →

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

for a man also was not created because of the woman, but a woman because of the man;

And thou--be speaking what doth become the sound teaching; — read the full passage →

See life with the wife whom thou hast loved, all the days of the life of thy vanity, that He hath given to thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity, for it <FI>is<Fi> thy portion in life, even of thy labour that thou art labouring at under the sun.

but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also <FI>are<Fi> the wives to their own husbands in everything.

Every wise woman hath builded her house, And the foolish with her hands breaketh it down.

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

Whence <FI>are<Fi> wars and fightings among you? not thence--out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members? — read the full passage →

but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them; — read the full passage →

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,

An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren; — read the full passage →

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord; — read the full passage →

honour thy father and mother,

This thy stature hath been like to a palm, And thy breasts to clusters. — read the full passage →

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed <FI>it<Fi> with the bathing of the water in the saying,

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, — read the full passage →

and she shall be saved through the child-bearing, if they remain in faith, and love, and sanctification, with sobriety.

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

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

A virtuous woman <FI>is<Fi> a crown to her husband, And as rottenness in his bones <FI>is<Fi> one causing shame.

and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, <FI>do<Fi> all things in the name of the Lord Jesus--giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper--as his counterpart.' — read the full passage →

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

Words of Lemuel a king, a declaration that his mother taught him: — read the full passage →

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, — read the full passage →

House and wealth <FI>are<Fi> the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> an understanding wife.

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband; — read the full passage →

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of <FI>their<Fi> husbands, lovers of <FI>their<Fi> children, — read the full passage →

The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good; — read the full passage →

Thou hast emboldened me, my sister-spouse, Emboldened me with one of thine eyes, With one chain of thy neck. — read the full passage →

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

And ye have said, `Wherefore?' Because Jehovah hath testified between thee And the wife of thy youth, That thou hast dealt treacherously against her, And she thy companion, and thy covenant-wife.

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife--himself he doth love; — read the full passage →

and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh?

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

A clean heart prepare for me, O God, And a right spirit renew within me.

having beheld your pure behaviour in fear,

the meats <FI>are<Fi> for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body <FI>is<Fi> not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;

the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him--head over all things to the assembly,

A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies <FI>is<Fi> her price.

`And when men strive, and have smitten a pregnant woman, and her children have come out, and there is no mischief, he is certainly fined, as the husband of the woman doth lay upon him, and he hath given through the judges; — read the full passage →

but--the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible thing of the meek and quiet spirit, which is, before God, of great price,

the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;

He who is dwelling In the secret place of the Most High, In the shade of the Mighty lodgeth habitually, — read the full passage →

And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, `Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?' — read the full passage →

and the man saith, `This <FI>is<Fi> the <FI>proper<Fi> step! bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh!' for this it is called Woman, for from a man hath this been taken;

who being reviled--was not reviling again, suffering--was not threatening, and was committing himself to Him who is judging righteously,

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife--himself he doth love; — read the full passage →

have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? `for they shall be--saith He--the two for one flesh.'

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

And he said also unto his disciples, `A certain man was rich, who had a steward, and he was accused to him as scattering his goods; — read the full passage →

To the Overseer. --A Psalm of David, in the coming in unto him of Nathan the prophet, when he hath gone in unto Bath-Sheba. Favour me, O God, according to Thy kindness, According to the abundance of Thy mercies, Blot out my transgressions. — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

The domestics! be subjecting yourselves in all fear to the masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the cross;

Servants--to their own masters <FI>are<Fi> to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying,

For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you--an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.

Let him kiss me with kisses of his mouth, For better <FI>are<Fi> thy loves than wine. — read the full passage →