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Love Wife
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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, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.
A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →
Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; — read the full passage →
A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — 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 →
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.
and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.
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.
to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
And if a man prevail against him that is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.
with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; — 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.
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
beholding your chaste behaviorcoupledwith fear.
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.
with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God 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;
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church;
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →
But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
and the rib, which Jehovah God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. — read the full passage →
Whoseadorninglet it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel;
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 →
But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge. — read the full passage →
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; — read the full passage →
But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.
Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise),
This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — 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 →
But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.
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.
but speaking truth in love, may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, even Christ;
And 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 have not love, I am nothing.
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →
But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them. — read the full passage →
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.
The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →
There are three things which are too wonderful for me, Yea, four which I know not: — read the full passage →
When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath taken.
And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. — read the full passage →
If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →
But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.
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?
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God. — read the full passage →
Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law.
Most men will proclaim every one his own kindness; But a faithful man who can find? — read the full passage →
Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →
Let not kindness and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart: — read the full passage →
And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were laden with the seven last plagues; and he spake with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb.
And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.
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; — read the full passage →
And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →
Women in like manner must be grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
Put on therefore, as God’s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;
and have put on the new man, that is being renewed unto knowledge after the image of him that created him:
Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth.
If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →
For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;
and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.
that ye were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
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.
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — 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 →
A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife.
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →
For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
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