Loving Your Wife

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;

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

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

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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 →

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

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 →

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

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.

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

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

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — 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 →

If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in 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;

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

He answered, “Haven’t you 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 one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. — read the full passage →

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

But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

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.

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,

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

“There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don’t understand: — read the full passage →

For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

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?’

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine! The fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices!

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.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

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.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love;

He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them. — read the full passage →

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

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — 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.

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 one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

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 I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. — read the full passage →

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

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

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

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 →

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. — read the full passage →

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

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 →

Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh. — read the full passage →

You who love Yahweh, hate evil. He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →

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.”

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

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. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

Now on the third day, Esther put on her royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, next to the king’s house. The king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, next to the entrance of the house. — read the full passage →

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

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.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. — 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.