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Husbands Love
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Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
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.
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.
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.
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.
above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:
Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.
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.
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.
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.
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;
And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →
Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; — read the full passage →
A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.
But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.
But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
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.
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 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 →
Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. — 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.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →
and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.
with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
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.
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity: for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor wherein thou laborest under the sun.
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
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.
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; — read the full passage →
There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love.
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.
to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →
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 →
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.
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them. — read the full passage →
A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.
Let all that ye do be done in love.
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →
And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
And there came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
Hatred stirreth up strifes; But love covereth all transgressions.
When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath taken.
Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. — read the full passage →
Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.
that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.
with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; — read the full passage →
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →
But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband — read the full passage →
Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. — read the full passage →
Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law.
In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;
This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.
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?
For thy Maker is thy husband; Jehovah of hosts is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is thy Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.
And if a man prevail against him that is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →
Let not kindness and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart: — read the full passage →
And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof: — read the full passage →
And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. — read the full passage →
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God. — read the full passage →
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
But speak thou the things which befit the sound doctrine: — read the full passage →
The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — 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 →
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called, — read the full passage →
and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church,
even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, — read the full passage →
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.
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →
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 →
But love your enemies, and do them good, and lend, never despairing; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of the Most High: for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
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.
Set me as a seal upon thy heart, As a seal upon thine arm: For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as Sheol; The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, A very flame of Jehovah. — read the full passage →
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