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Marriage And Family
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Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
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.
Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
He answered, “Haven’t you 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, God made them male and female. — read the full passage →
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.
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.
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.
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 →
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →
What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.
A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. — read the full passage →
Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. — 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.”
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.
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.
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.”
You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”
Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
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.
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. — read the full passage →
God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →
If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”
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.
For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;
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.
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 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 all that you do be done in love.
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.
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.
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
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.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →
“There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don’t understand: — read the full passage →
One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.
We love him, because he first loved us.
Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’ — read the full passage →
Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh. — read the full passage →
For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.
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.
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.” — read the full passage →
Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.” — read the full passage →
Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.
and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. — read the full passage →
Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man? — 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 →
A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.
Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table. — read the full passage →
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — 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 →
See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!
To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
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,
Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.
I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →
So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,
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.
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 →
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
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