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Loving Your Husband

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1 Peter 3:1–22

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 →

1 Peter 4:8

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

Ephesians 5:22–24

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

Genesis 2:24

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

1 Corinthians 7:1–40

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

Titus 2:4–5

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →

Proverbs 31:11–31

The heart of her husband trusteth in her, And he shall have no lack of gain. — read the full passage →

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

1 John 4:12

No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us:

Titus 2:1–15

But speak thou the things which befit the sound doctrine: — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 13:1–13

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 →

Titus 2:4

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Ephesians 5:22–25

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 10:13

There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.

1 Corinthians 13:13

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Deuteronomy 24:1–4

When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →

Romans 1:26–2:1

For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:33

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

Proverbs 31:1–31

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:25

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

Ephesians 5:22

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

1 Corinthians 13:9

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;

1 Peter 3:7

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.

Genesis 3:1–18:33

Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden? — read the full passage →

1 Peter 3:1–6

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 →

Colossians 3:18

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Colossians 3:14

and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.

Proverbs 18:22

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.

Colossians 3:19

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

Revelation 1:1

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;

Colossians 3:18–19

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:31

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.

Ephesians 5:28

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

Ephesians 5:22–33

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:1–33

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; — read the full passage →

Ephesians 4:2

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

John 3:16–17

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. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 19:14

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

Psalms 2:9

Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.

Genesis 3:16

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

1 Peter 3:1

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;

Ephesians 5:23

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.

Ephesians 4:1–32

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called, — read the full passage →

2 Corinthians 6:14

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?

1 Corinthians 13:4–7

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

1 Corinthians 7:3

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

John 3:16

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.

Proverbs 5:18–19

Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →

Genesis 2:18

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

1 John 4:8

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

1 Timothy 5:8

But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Ephesians 6:4

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

Ephesians 6:1–24

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:28–33

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself: — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:25–29

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

Ephesians 4:32

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

Matthew 5:32

but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.

Proverbs 21:9

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

Ephesians 5:29

for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;

2 Corinthians 5:16

Wherefore we henceforth know no man after the flesh: even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

1 Corinthians 11:3

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.

1 Corinthians 7:3–5

Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. — read the full passage →

Matthew 19:9

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.

Matthew 19:5

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?

Matthew 5:28

but I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Amos 3:3

Shall two walk together, except they have agreed?

1 John 3:3

And every one that hath this hope set on him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

Ephesians 5:21

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

1 Corinthians 7:2

But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Romans 5:8

But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Acts 5:29

But Peter and the apostles answered and said, We must obey God rather than men.

John 13:34

A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

Matthew 19:4–6

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 →

Matthew 19:2

and great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there.

Proverbs 31:11

The heart of her husband trusteth in her, And he shall have no lack of gain.

Proverbs 31:10

A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.

Proverbs 12:4

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

Ephesians 5:21–33

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:18

And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;

Ephesians 5:3

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

Ephesians 5:2

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.

Matthew 5:2

and he opened his mouth and taught them, saying,

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