Marital Fight

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <FI>are<Fi> grave, as many as <FI>are<Fi> righteous, as many as <FI>are<Fi> pure, as many as <FI>are<Fi> lovely, as many as <FI>are<Fi> of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;

<FI> Whoso<Fi> hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this <FI>is<Fi> unprofitable to you.

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love, — read the full passage →

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover 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 did behold, and our hands did handle, concerning the Word of the Life--

A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies <FI>is<Fi> her price.

And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper--as his counterpart.'

According as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love;

`Take heed your kindness not to do before men, to be seen by them, and if not--reward ye have not from your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens; — read the full passage →

Jehovah doth fight for you, and ye keep silent.'

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

And if the one strengthen himself, the two stand against him; and the threefold cord is not hastily broken.

A virtuous woman <FI>is<Fi> a crown to her husband, And as rottenness in his bones <FI>is<Fi> one causing shame.

O Timotheus, the thing entrusted guard thou, avoiding the profane vain-words and opposition of the falsely-named knowledge,

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep, — read the full passage →

so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'

Words of Lemuel a king, a declaration that his mother taught him: — read the full passage →

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

what therefore God did join together, let not man put asunder.'

and thou hast loved Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might,

And God seeth all that He hath done, and lo, very good; and there is an evening, and there is a morning--day the sixth.

for there did come in unobserved certain men, long ago having been written beforehand to this judgment, impious, the grace of our God perverting to lasciviousness, and our only Master, God, and Lord--Jesus Christ--denying,

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses.

nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, that cause questions rather than the building up of God that is in faith: --

because in him doth tabernacle all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called, — read the full passage →

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

`If, therefore, thou mayest bring thy gift to the altar, and there mayest remember that thy brother hath anything against thee, — read the full passage →

Words of Amos--who hath been among herdsmen of Tekoa--that he hath seen concerning Israel, in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the shaking; — read the full passage →

For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you--an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.

And they fear from the west the name of Jehovah, And from the rising of the sun--His honour, When come in as a flood doth an adversary, The Spirit of Jehovah hath raised an ensign against him.

He who is dwelling In the secret place of the Most High, In the shade of the Mighty lodgeth habitually, — read the full passage →

`Thou dost not take vengeance, nor watch the sons of thy people; and thou hast had love to thy neighbour as thyself; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God; — read the full passage →

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

and the Life was manifested, and we have seen, and do testify, and declare to you the Life, the age-during, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us--

the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,

and above all these things, <FI>have<Fi> love, which is a bond of the perfection,

For, let this mind be in you that <FI>is<Fi> also in Christ Jesus,

`for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh;'

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

Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

What, then, shall we say unto these things? if God <FI>is<Fi> for us, who <FI>is<Fi> against us?

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them; — read the full passage →

And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made <FI>them<Fi> , from the beginning a male and a female made them, — read the full passage →

`And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother; — read the full passage →

My steps establish by Thy saying, And any iniquity doth not rule over me.

`Have not I commanded thee? be strong and courageous; be not terrified nor affrighted, for with thee <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah thy God in every <FI>place<Fi> whither thou goest.'

`And he hath brought in his guilt-offering to Jehovah, unto the opening of the tent of meeting, a ram <FI>for<Fi> a guilt-offering,

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

And God saith, `Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.'

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;

See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, — read the full passage →

and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

Your own selves try ye, if ye are in the faith; your own selves prove ye; do ye not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if ye be not in some respect disapproved of?

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

that we may not be over-reached by the Adversary, for of his devices we are not ignorant.

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up;

and to the married I announce--not I, but the Lord--let not a wife separate from a husband: — read the full passage →

and if they have not continence--let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;

giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men.

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage--I have overcome the world.'

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

it is more profitable to him if a weighty millstone is put round about his neck, and he hath been cast into the sea, than that he may cause one of these little ones to stumble.

`Teacher, which <FI>is<Fi> the great command in the Law?' — read the full passage →

And Jesus having earnestly beheld, said to them, `With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.'

`And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

Beloved, all diligence using to write to you concerning the common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, exhorting to agonize for the faith once delivered to the saints,

and their word as a gangrene will have pasture, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus, — read the full passage →

for I am pressed by the two, having the desire to depart, and to be with Christ, for it is far better,

because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife--himself he doth love;

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed <FI>it<Fi> with the bathing of the water in the saying,

who, having ceased to feel, themselves did give up to the lasciviousness, for the working of all uncleanness in greediness;

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the mercies, and God of all comfort, — read the full passage →

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love--these three; and the greatest of these <FI>is<Fi> love.