Marital Problems

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

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.”

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

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;

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

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

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

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

But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her. — read the full passage →

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. — 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 →

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

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

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

There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.

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.

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

“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.

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

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

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

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.

Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

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

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — 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.

For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.

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.

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

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

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

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,

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” — read the full passage →

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him.

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

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

Let brotherly love continue. — read the full passage →

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, — read the full passage →

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

Rejoice always. — read the full passage →

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

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

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?

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 if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry.

Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.

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

For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons shall marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

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

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

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.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; — read the full passage →

This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.

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 →

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

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

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

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

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

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; — 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.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men:

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

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

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

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

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

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

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

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice. — read the full passage →

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

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

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

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

The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. — read the full passage →

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;