Jobs Wife

Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. — read the full passage →

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, — read the full passage →

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.

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

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:

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; — read the full passage →

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.

House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.

But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

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 unto the Lord.

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

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.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

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

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.

And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; — read the full passage →

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 →

And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

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.

Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. — read the full passage →

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.

Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. — read the full passage →

But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.

Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

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.

Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?

His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

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.

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. — read the full passage →

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

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.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

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. — read the full passage →

For with God nothing shall be impossible.

Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? — read the full passage →

Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. — read the full passage →

And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.

Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them.

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. — read the full passage →

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

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, — read the full passage →

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; — read the full passage →

Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. — read the full passage →

Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.

But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

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

In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, — read the full passage →

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all. — read the full passage →

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.

For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. — read the full passage →

Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

And certain men which came down from Judea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. — read the full passage →

And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. — read the full passage →

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. — read the full passage →

Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. — read the full passage →

Then came to him the mother of Zebedee’s children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him. — read the full passage →

Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. — read the full passage →

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

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