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Husbands Love Your Wife
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You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. — read the full passage →
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — read the full passage →
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.
For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:
Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →
You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior 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 a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’
To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.
But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.
Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →
He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →
Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.
The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor.
Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.
Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;
Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,
not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous; — read the full passage →
But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. — read the full passage →
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. — read the full passage →
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. — read the full passage →
Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes? — read the full passage →
Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.
Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. — read the full passage →
For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.
For, “He put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when he says, “All things are put in subjection”, it is evident that he is excepted who subjected all things to him.
No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.
But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →
But, because of sexual immoralities, 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 one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
When men strive against each other, and the wife of one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts out her hand, and takes him by his private parts, — read the full passage →
God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.
I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth!” — read the full passage →
A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →
Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.
In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →
In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — 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 you see the Day approaching.
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 servants 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 faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →
Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →
Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.
But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her. — read the full passage →
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