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.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:
Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.
Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:
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.
and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.
But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband — read the full passage →
Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
If then ye 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 →
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →
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.
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; — read the full passage →
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.
with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
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;
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →
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 →
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.
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →
But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.
I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
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;
for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;
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?
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.
But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →
even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:
And he arose from thence, and cometh into the borders of Judæa and beyond the Jordan: and multitudes come together unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again. — read the full passage →
There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love.
Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. — 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.
Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law.
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.
But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness.
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →
Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. — read the full passage →
And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.
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 →
Now we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. — read the full passage →
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called, — read the full passage →
Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.
A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. — read the full passage →
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 →
Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.
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.
In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;
I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men; — read the full passage →
And 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 have not love, I am nothing.
But love your enemies, and do them good, and lend, never despairing; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of the Most High: for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.
Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: ASV.