Love Wife

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife--himself he doth love;

<FI> Whoso<Fi> hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper--as his counterpart.'

A virtuous woman <FI>is<Fi> a crown to her husband, And as rottenness in his bones <FI>is<Fi> one causing shame.

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord; — read the full passage →

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies <FI>is<Fi> her price.

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made <FI>them<Fi> , from the beginning a male and a female made them, — read the full passage →

House and wealth <FI>are<Fi> the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> an understanding wife.

and above all these things, <FI>have<Fi> love, which is a bond of the perfection,

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

sober, pure, keepers of <FI>their own<Fi> houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

And if the one strengthen himself, the two stand against him; and the threefold cord is not hastily broken.

Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love, — read the full passage →

and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

what therefore God did join together, let not man put asunder.'

See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

having beheld your pure behaviour in fear,

because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ <FI>is<Fi> head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love--these three; and the greatest of these <FI>is<Fi> love.

And Jehovah God buildeth up the rib which He hath taken out of the man into a woman, and bringeth her in unto the man; — read the full passage →

whose adorning--let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments,

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won, — read the full passage →

and ye <FI>are<Fi> a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge. — read the full passage →

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of <FI>their<Fi> husbands, lovers of <FI>their<Fi> children,

aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers, — read the full passage →

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

honour thy father and mother,

this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;

`for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh;'

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, — read the full passage →

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, — read the full passage →

but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also <FI>are<Fi> the wives to their own husbands in everything.

and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ;

and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them; — read the full passage →

For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you--an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.

Words of Lemuel a king, a declaration that his mother taught him: — read the full passage →

Three things have been too wonderful for me, Yea, four that I have not known: — read the full passage →

`When a man taketh a new wife, he doth not go out into the host, and <FI>one<Fi> doth not pass over unto him for anything; free he is at his own house one year, and hath rejoiced his wife whom he hath taken.

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them. — read the full passage →

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, — read the full passage →

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? `for they shall be--saith He--the two for one flesh.'

and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh?

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God; — read the full passage →

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled,

A multitude of men proclaim each his kindness, And a man of stedfastness who doth find? — read the full passage →

Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth, — read the full passage →

Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, Bind them on thy neck, Write them on the tablet of thy heart, — read the full passage →

And there came unto me one of the seven messengers, who have the seven vials that are full of the seven last plagues, and he spake with me, saying, `Come, I will shew thee the bride of the Lamb--the wife,'

and I, John, saw the holy city--new Jerusalem--coming down from God out of the heaven, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband;

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

and we--we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of <FI>their<Fi> husbands, lovers of <FI>their<Fi> children, — read the full passage →

Women--in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.

for this <FI>is<Fi> right and acceptable before God our Saviour,

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering,

and having put on the new, which is renewed in regard to knowledge, after the image of Him who did create him;

the things above mind ye, not the things upon the earth,

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, — read the full passage →

for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God.

and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world;

which is his body, the fulness of Him who is filling the all in all,

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will--only in the Lord;

the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife.

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;