Respect The Wife

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.

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 →

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;

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant. — read the full passage →

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; — read the full passage →

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.

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

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to 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 woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.

Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established;

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

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;

In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing; — read the full passage →

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures. — read the full passage →

But, because of sexual immoralities, 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 therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

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.”

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; — read the full passage →

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

that you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of my 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 a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

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,

A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.

seeing your pure behavior in fear.

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; — read the full passage →

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live 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 animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has 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 a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

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; — read the full passage →

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the house of Onesiphorus.

For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.

Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles. — read the full passage →

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; — read the full passage →

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you 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 assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

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.

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. — read the full passage →

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because 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 to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. — read the full passage →

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

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.

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 →

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →

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 sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

Not that I speak in respect to lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.

This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

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

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

For man is not from woman, but woman from man; — read the full passage →

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

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 →

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.

He answered, “Haven’t you 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.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

“There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don’t understand: — read the full passage →

Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.