Topic
Respect The Wife
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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.
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 →
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;
Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →
but now do ye also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth:
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. — 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.
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.
and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.
Nevertheless, neither is the woman without the man, nor the man without the woman, in the Lord.
that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; — read the full passage →
that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible apparel of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →
In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
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.
For as the woman is of the man, so is the man also by the woman; but all things are of God.
Through wisdom is a house builded; And by understanding it is established;
And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.
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;
In like manner, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobriety; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment; — read the full passage →
but speaking truth in love, may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, even Christ;
Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus; and he was mighty in the scriptures. — read the full passage →
But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; — read the full passage →
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
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; — read the full passage →
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →
Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:
that ye receive her in the Lord, worthily of the saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever matter she may have need of you: for she herself also hath been a helper of many, and of mine own self.
The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →
A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
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;
A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
beholding your chaste behaviorcoupledwith fear.
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; — read the full passage →
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →
But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her. — read the full passage →
Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind: — read the full passage →
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.
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; — read the full passage →
Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brethren:
doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;
There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the house of Onesiphorus.
For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.
But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her.
And Saul was consenting unto his death. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church which was in Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judæa and Samaria, except the apostles. — read the full passage →
doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself; — read the full passage →
above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:
as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye now are, if ye do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →
But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.
But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.
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.
And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one that worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened to give heed unto the things which were spoken by Paul.
A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.
Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:
But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: — read the full passage →
Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself: — read the full passage →
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →
For a man indeed ought not to have his head veiled, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. — read the full passage →
Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. — read the full passage →
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
And Peter arose and went with them. And when he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.
Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise),
What is it then, brethren? When ye come together, each one hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a revelation, hath a tongue, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.
Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath taken.
And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him. — read the full passage →
And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. — read the full passage →
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therein to be content.
This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. — read the full passage →
with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man: — read the full passage →
Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.
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 →
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.
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 →
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.
Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; Buta woman that feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised.
There are three things which are too wonderful for me, Yea, four which I know not: — read the full passage →
And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
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