The Husband

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

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

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

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.

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;

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

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, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.

but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.

but I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Here is the patience of the saints, they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

and he stood upon the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns ten diadems, and upon his heads names of blasphemy. — read the full passage →

And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and one said, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. — read the full passage →

if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.

The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. — read the full passage →

for fornicators, for abusers of themselves with men, for menstealers, for liars, for false swearers, and if there be any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first; — read the full passage →

And whatsoever ye do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.

But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?

A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

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 →

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.

Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, — read the full passage →

For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: — read the full passage →

But Peter and the apostles answered and said, We must obey God rather than men.

saying, We strictly charged you not to teach in this name: and behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.

But into whatsoever city ye shall enter, and they receive you not, go out into the streets thereof and say, — read the full passage →

And there came unto him Pharisees, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? trying him.

And Jesus answered and spake again in parables unto them, saying, — read the full passage →

And there came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

And there came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? — read the full passage →

It was said also, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: — read the full passage →