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Man And Wife
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Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →
Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.
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.
Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”
Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
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.
But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”
But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →
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.”
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →
He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →
God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
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 →
but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh. — read the full passage →
If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery.”
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.
“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
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;
A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →
Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband
What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
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. — read the full passage →
Because, knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened. — read the full passage →
When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. — read the full passage →
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
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.
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →
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.
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →
Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. — read the full passage →
but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →
The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — 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 →
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.
For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.
Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
“‘You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. — read the full passage →
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 →
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →
But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.
(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.
as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.
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 →
to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →
and the two will become one flesh,so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.
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?’
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ — read the full passage →
Let us rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let us give the glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”
Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →
“There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don’t understand: — read the full passage →
My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:
Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name. — read the full passage →
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →
For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
“‘You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it; neither shall any woman give herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it is a perversion.
Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things. — read the full passage →
Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds, — read the full passage →
Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.
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.
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — 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.
The man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.
Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. — read the full passage →
But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. — read the full passage →
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