Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
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.
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.
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.
You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
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.
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;
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
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.
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →
“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their 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,
But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →
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.
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 →
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
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 said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
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?’
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — 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.
He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them. — read the full passage →
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
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 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 →
He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,
Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
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.”
He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →
Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to 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 →
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 →
But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — 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 →
and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; — read the full passage →
seeing your pure behavior in fear.
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. — read the full passage →
Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,
Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
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 →
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.
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →
Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. — read the full passage →
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;
And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands: — read the full passage →
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. — 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.
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.
“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:
For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.
Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.
and the two will become one flesh,so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.
Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.
Who, when he was cursed, didn’t curse back. When he suffered, didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;
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