Husbands Loving Their Wives

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.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

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.

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →

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.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become 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.

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

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;

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 →

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 →

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.

but now do ye also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth:

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.

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.

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; — 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;

A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.

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.

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.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

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?

But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

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.

Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. — read the full passage →

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →

and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

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 →

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 I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

But speak thou the things which befit the sound doctrine: — read the full passage →

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 heart of her husband trusteth in her, And he shall have no lack of gain.

for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — 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 →

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

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.

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.

For I hate putting away, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith Jehovah of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

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 →

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

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:

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 →

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 →

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called, — read the full passage →

Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.

Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. — 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.

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 →

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.

and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church,

But Peter and the apostles answered and said, We must obey God rather than men.

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 →

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 →

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.

This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.

because we are members of his body.

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.

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. — read the full passage →

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

For Adam was first formed, then Eve;

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.

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 →

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.

but speaking truth in love, may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, even Christ;

but he that is married is careful for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. — 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 →

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 →

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — 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 →

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. — read the full passage →

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth; and he was subject unto them: and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

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 →

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. — 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 →