Marital Fight

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

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

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.

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

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

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

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

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit to them: for they watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for this were unprofitable for you.

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; — read the full passage →

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

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we beheld, and our hands handled, concerning the Word of life

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

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

Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my love.

Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen of them: else ye have no reward with your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

Jehovah will fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

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

And if a man prevail against him that is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

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

O Timothy, guard that which is committed unto thee, turning away from the profane babblings and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.

My son, forget not my law; But let thy heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

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

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

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

For there are certain men crept in privily, even they who were of old written of beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

casting all your anxiety upon him, because he careth for you.

Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the life eternal, whereunto thou wast called, and didst confess the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

neither to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questionings, rather than a dispensation of God which is in faith; so do I now.

for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

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

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.

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

All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law and the prophets.

If therefore thou art offering thy gift at the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, — read the full passage →

The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. — read the full passage →

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.

So shall they fear the name of Jehovah from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which the breath of Jehovah driveth.

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →

Thou shalt not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people; but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am Jehovah.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God. — read the full passage →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

(and the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare unto you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us);

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith:

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

Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

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

for the things which are done by them in secret it is a shame even to speak of.

Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.

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

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

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

What then shall we say to these things? If Godisfor us, whoisagainst us?

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

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.

For no word from God shall be void of power.

But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them. — 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 →

And if thy brother sin against thee, go, show him his fault between thee and him alone: if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. — read the full passage →

Establish my footsteps in thy word; And let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not affrighted, neither be thou dismayed: for Jehovah thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

And he shall bring his trespass-offering unto Jehovah, unto the door of the tent of meeting, even a ram for a trespass-offering.

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

And 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 heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

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;

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts unto God.

Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ:

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

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.

Try your own selves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves. Or know ye not as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? unless indeed ye be reprobate.

Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.

that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

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.

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.

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 →

But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Render to no man evil for evil. Take thought for things honorable in the sight of all men.

These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

It were well for him if a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law? — read the full passage →

And Jesus looking upon them said to them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

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.

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; — read the full passage →

Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to write unto you of our common salvation, I was constrained to write unto you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints.

and their word will eat as doth a gangrene: of whom is Hymenæus and Philetus; — read the full passage →

But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better:

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

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

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

Blessedbethe God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; — read the full passage →

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