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Husbands Love Your Wife
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Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence 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 be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; — read the full passage →
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. — read the full passage →
Wives, submit yourselves 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 the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. — read the full passage →
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Wives, submit yourselves 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 for it; — read the full passage →
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: — read the full passage →
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is 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 father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, — read the full passage →
And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him. — read the full passage →
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; — read the full passage →
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
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 gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; — read the full passage →
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. — read the full passage →
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. — read the full passage →
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. — read the full passage →
And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: 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 babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? — read the full passage →
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. — read the full passage →
For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: — read the full passage →
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.
When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for 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 fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. — read the full passage →
And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, 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 just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; — read the full passage →
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; — read the full passage →
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. — read the full passage →
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. — read the full passage →
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →
But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. — read the full passage →
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