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Husbands Loving Their Wives
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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, and don’t be bitter against them.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →
Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.
“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”
Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
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;
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 →
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 →
Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.
but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.
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.
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
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.”
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — 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,
Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.
but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits 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 assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
But, because of sexual immoralities, 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 to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
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?’
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.
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.
Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. — read the full passage →
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →
Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
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 →
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 I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.
A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.
But say the things which fit sound doctrine, — read the full passage →
but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain.
For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;
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 →
But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — 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 →
I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”
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.
For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.
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 →
He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love;
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 →
He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →
Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.
This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — read the full passage →
God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
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 →
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.
He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
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 →
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 →
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.
This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.
because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one 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 living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith 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 pleases the Lord.
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. — read the full passage →
Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;
but he who is married is concerned about 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 languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — 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 →
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — 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. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. — 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 assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
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