Topic
Love And Marriage
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And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
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.
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
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.
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
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.
Let all that you do be done in love.
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — 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 →
Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.
Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. — 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.
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →
If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. — 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?
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. — 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 →
He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.
God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. — read the full passage →
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. — read the full passage →
Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. — 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.”
Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. — read the full passage →
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous, — 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;
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
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.
For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons shall marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.
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,
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.
But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
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 →
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →
Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; — 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.” — read the full passage →
For this cause the woman ought to have authority on her head, because of the angels.
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. — read the full passage →
My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →
See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.
And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.
A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.
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 →
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love. — 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 →
You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.
God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →
If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →
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 →
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →
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 →
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 →
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →
For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. — read the full passage →
Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh. — read the full passage →
Let us rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let us give the glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.” — read the full passage →
Let brotherly love continue. — read the full passage →
Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — 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 had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me.
A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.
Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, — read the full passage →
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →
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 if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.
In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good. — read the full passage →
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