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Husbands Love Your Wife
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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, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.
Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; — 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 →
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.
Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. — read the full passage →
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →
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;
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.
But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — 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 →
Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit to them: for they watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for this were unprofitable for you.
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.
For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:
Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: — read the full passage →
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.
Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:
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.
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.
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?
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.
to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:
But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise.
Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.
Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.
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,
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, — read the full passage →
Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God.
The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →
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;
above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:
For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;
But let each man prove his own work, and then shall he have his glorying in regard of himself alone, and not of his neighbor.
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
who is on the right hand of God, having gone into heaven; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;
Put them in mind to be in subjection to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready unto every good work,
no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money; — read the full passage →
But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness.
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 →
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 →
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. — read the full passage →
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.
which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes? — read the full passage →
Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
For to this end we labor and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of them that believe.
Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. — read the full passage →
For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father,
even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved),
So then, as we have opportunity, let us work that which is good toward all men, and especially toward them that are of the household of the faith.
For, He put all things in subjection under his feet. But when he saith, All things are put in subjection, it is evident that he is excepted who did subject all things unto him.
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.
A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
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 →
But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
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.
Iron sharpeneth iron; So a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.
When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets; — read the full passage →
And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.
And I heard a great voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, Go ye, and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God into the earth. — read the full passage →
And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and one said, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. — read the full passage →
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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.
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 →
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 →
not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day drawing nigh.
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →
But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
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 →
Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →
Yet if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us in peace.
But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her. — read the full passage →
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