Respect The Wife

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.

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

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — 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.

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

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

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she 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 favour of the Lord.

House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; — read the full passage →

That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

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, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.

Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:

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

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;

In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; — read the full passage →

But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus. — read the full passage →

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

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

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

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 →

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 →

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

That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.

The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants 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.

While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.

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 →

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

But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. — read the full passage →

Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: — read the full passage →

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

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.

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 →

Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.

For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles. — read the full passage →

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. — read the full passage →

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

Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →

Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

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

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

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.

And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.

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

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: — read the full passage →

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. — read the full passage →

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

For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, 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 due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. — read the full passage →

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.

Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)

How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.

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

When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.

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

Thus 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected 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, therewith to be content.

This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. — 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 followers 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 in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

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 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 →

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.

There be 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 sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;