Love Wife

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.

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

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

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

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

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

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 →

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

And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

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.

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 →

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

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

Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children 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 the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.

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.

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

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

But God commendeth his 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.

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;

Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:

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

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. — read the full passage →

Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;

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; — read the full passage →

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. — read the full passage →

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

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 →

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.

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)

This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

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.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; — read the full passage →

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; — read the full passage →

Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

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

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

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

There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: — read the full passage →

When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.

So 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 ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. — read the full passage →

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find? — read the full passage →

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →

Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: — read the full passage →

And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife.

And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

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: — read the full passage →

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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

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

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;

And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

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

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.