Marriage And Children

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

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

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

but I--I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

if ye may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you.

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.

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 wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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,

`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.'

the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;

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 →

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled,

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

`Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.

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

`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;'

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

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God. — read the full passage →

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

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

for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;

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.

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,

Ministrants--let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord; — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;

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. — read the full passage →

on this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife,

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

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,

And Jesus having come forth thence, withdrew to the parts of Tyre and Sidon, — read the full passage →

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;

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,

I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;

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

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

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

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

but neither <FI>is<Fi> a man apart from a woman, nor a woman apart from a man, in the Lord,

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

so we, the many, one body are in Christ, and members each one of one another.

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose; — 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 as ye wish that men may do to you, do ye also to them in like manner;

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 →