Loving Your Husband

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

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

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

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 →

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 →

The heart of her husband hath trusted in her, And spoil he lacketh not. — read the full passage →

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

God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us;

And thou--be speaking what doth become the sound teaching; — 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 →

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

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

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

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

`When a man doth take a wife, and hath married her, and it hath been, if she doth not find grace in his eyes (for he hath found in her nakedness of anything), and he hath written for her a writing of divorce, and given <FI>it<Fi> into her hand, and sent her out of his house, — read the full passage →

Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature; — read the full passage →

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.

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

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

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

for in part we know, and in part we prophecy;

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.

And the serpent hath been subtile above every beast of the field which Jehovah God hath made, and he saith unto the woman, `Is it true that God hath said, Ye do not eat of every tree of the garden?' — read the full passage →

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 →

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

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

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

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

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,

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

`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;'

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

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

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

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

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. — read the full passage →

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

Thou dost rule them with a sceptre of iron, As a vessel of a potter Thou dost crush them.'

Unto the woman He said, `Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband <FI>is<Fi> thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'

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,

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,

Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called, — read the full passage →

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 →

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

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

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

but I--I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

Better to sit on a corner of the roof, Than <FI>with<Fi> a woman of contentions and a house of company.

for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord--the assembly,

So that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more;

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.

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband; — read the full passage →

`And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'

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?

but I--I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

Do two walk together if they have not met?

and every one who is having this hope on him, doth purify himself, even as he is pure.

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

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

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

And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

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 →

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

The heart of her husband hath trusted in her, And spoil he lacketh not.

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

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

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

and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

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

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 having opened his mouth, he was teaching them, saying: