Marital Fight

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

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.

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

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

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

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

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers 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 saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life

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

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

Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still.”

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

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

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

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

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 assembly, and gave himself up for it;

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

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

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

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

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

neither to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith—

For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

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

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

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

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you, — 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, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

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

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →

“‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. — read the full passage →

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

(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

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

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

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

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

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

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

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

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

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

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.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. — 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 →

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →

Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

He shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, even a ram for a trespass offering.

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

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.”

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;

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

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements 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 assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

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.

Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

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

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.

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

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

But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

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

It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around 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 greatest commandment in the law?” — read the full passage →

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

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.”

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, — read the full passage →

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

and those words will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus; — read the full passage →

But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

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

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

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

who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

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

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