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Love Wife
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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.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.
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 in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →
Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — 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 →
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
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.
to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with 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 has joined together, let no man separate.”
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.
seeing your pure behavior in fear.
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.
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;
Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
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;
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 assembly;
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. — read the full passage →
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;
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 →
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers. — read the full passage →
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
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 →
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.
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:
This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.
“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — 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 →
But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
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.
but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;
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.
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 →
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, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →
“There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don’t understand: — read the full passage →
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.
God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. — read the full passage →
If then you 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 sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”
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?’
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 →
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man? — read the full passage →
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →
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 →
One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the wife, the Lamb’s bride.”
I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.
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, — read the full passage →
We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the 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 →
Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;
Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
If then you 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 →
Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
that you 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 fullness of him who fills all in all.
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — 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 →
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.
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.
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 →
For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
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