Husbands Love

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

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 wives, and be not bitter with them;

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.

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

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

`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;'

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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.'

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

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

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

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

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

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love--these three; and the greatest of these <FI>is<Fi> love.

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.

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

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 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 →

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

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.

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

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

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

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

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.

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

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

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.

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, — read the full passage →

fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

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

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.

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

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 →

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 →

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.

what therefore God did join together, let not man put asunder.'

but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them; — 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 God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;

let all your things be done in love.

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 if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

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?'

Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.

`When a man taketh a new wife, he doth not go out into the host, and <FI>one<Fi> doth not pass over unto him for anything; free he is at his own house one year, and hath rejoiced his wife whom he hath taken.

See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

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

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

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

and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love, — read the full passage →

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 to the married I announce--not I, but the Lord--let not a wife separate from a husband: — read the full passage →

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

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

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled,

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

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 thy Maker <FI>is<Fi> thy husband, Jehovah of Hosts <FI>is<Fi> His name, And thy Redeemer <FI>is<Fi> the Holy One of Israel, `God of all the earth,' He is called.

And if the one strengthen himself, the two stand against him; and the threefold cord is not hastily broken.

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

Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, Bind them on thy neck, Write them on the tablet of thy heart, — read the full passage →

and Isaac bringeth her in unto the tent of Sarah his mother, and he taketh Rebekah, and she becometh his wife, and he loveth her, and Isaac is comforted after <FI>the death of<Fi> his mother.

And Jehovah God causeth a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he sleepeth, and He taketh one of his ribs, and closeth up flesh in its stead. — 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. — read the full passage →

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God; — read the full passage →

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

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

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

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

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

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 →

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

Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called, — read the full passage →

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

according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, — 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;

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

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 →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

`But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil;

`And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'

Set me as a seal on thy heart, as a seal on thine arm, For strong as death is love, Sharp as Sheol is jealousy, Its burnings <FI>are<Fi> burnings of fire, a flame of Jah! — read the full passage →