Marriage And Love

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

But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. — read the full passage →

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; — read the full passage →

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

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

For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. — read the full passage →

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; — read the full passage →

Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: — read the full passage →

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; — read the full passage →

Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. — read the full passage →

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; — read the full passage →

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: — read the full passage →

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

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. — read the full passage →

Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. — read the full passage →

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. — read the full passage →

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

And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.

And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judea beyond Jordan; — read the full passage →

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

Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; — read the full passage →

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe: — read the full passage →

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; — read the full passage →

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth; — read the full passage →

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

Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?

Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee. — read the full passage →

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: — read the full passage →

Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. — read the full passage →

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

He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. — read the full passage →

Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, — read the full passage →

Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. — read the full passage →

Let all your things be done with charity.

Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful. — read the full passage →

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. — read the full passage →

And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judea by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again. — read the full passage →

And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. — read the full passage →

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; — read the full passage →

That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. — read the full passage →

And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. — read the full passage →

Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord? — read the full passage →

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. — read the full passage →

Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. — read the full passage →

And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, that, as they went in the way, a certain man said unto him, Lord, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. — read the full passage →

And he straitly charged them, and commanded them to tell no man that thing; — read the full passage →

But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.

And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own city. — read the full passage →

But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: — read the full passage →

Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? — read the full passage →

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? — read the full passage →

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. — read the full passage →

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. — read the full passage →

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. — read the full passage →

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. — read the full passage →

Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: — read the full passage →

And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, — read the full passage →

To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; — read the full passage →