Marriage And Family

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.

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

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

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

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

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 →

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

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

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

But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

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

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

A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

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

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

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

Yet if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us in peace.

but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.

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.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

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

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

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.

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

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

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father, — read the full passage →

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

But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

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.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

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

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

But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

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 all that ye do be done in love.

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth one that is put away from a husband committeth adultery.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.

For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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

We love, because he first loved us.

Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

It was said also, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: — read the full passage →

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

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

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

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

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

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

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;

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, give no occasion to the adversary for reviling:

The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

So then ye are no more strangers and sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

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.

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. — 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 →