Wife

but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.

<FI> Whoso<Fi> hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies <FI>is<Fi> her price.

House and wealth <FI>are<Fi> the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> an understanding wife.

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

A virtuous woman <FI>is<Fi> a crown to her husband, And as rottenness in his bones <FI>is<Fi> one causing shame.

the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;

`for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh;'

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife--himself he doth love;

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies <FI>is<Fi> her price. — read the full passage →

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made <FI>them<Fi> , from the beginning a male and a female made them, — read the full passage →

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of <FI>their<Fi> husbands, lovers of <FI>their<Fi> children, — read the full passage →

Every wise woman hath builded her house, And the foolish with her hands breaketh it down.

because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ <FI>is<Fi> head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper--as his counterpart.'

Unto the woman He said, `Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband <FI>is<Fi> thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of <FI>their<Fi> husbands, lovers of <FI>their<Fi> children,

and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

Words of Lemuel a king, a declaration that his mother taught him: — read the full passage →

Women--in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.

but I--I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

sober, pure, keepers of <FI>their own<Fi> houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

as Sarah was obedient to Abraham, calling him `sir,' of whom ye did become daughters, doing good, and not fearing any terror.

but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them; — read the full passage →

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife--himself he doth love; — read the full passage →

The heart of her husband hath trusted in her, And spoil he lacketh not. — read the full passage →

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

but I--I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord; — read the full passage →

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won, — read the full passage →

Better to sit on a corner of a roof, Than <FI>with<Fi> a woman of contentions, and a house of company.

aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers, — read the full passage →

And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper--as his counterpart.' — read the full passage →

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

Better to dwell in a wilderness land, Than <FI>with<Fi> a woman of contentions and anger.

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love--these three; and the greatest of these <FI>is<Fi> love.

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won, — read the full passage →

I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

`When a man taketh a new wife, he doth not go out into the host, and <FI>one<Fi> doth not pass over unto him for anything; free he is at his own house one year, and hath rejoiced his wife whom he hath taken.

what therefore God did join together, let not man put asunder.'

and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh?

She hath considered a field, and taketh it, From the fruit of her hands she hath planted a vineyard.

and above all these things, <FI>have<Fi> love, which is a bond of the perfection,

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

and Isaac bringeth her in unto the tent of Sarah his mother, and he taketh Rebekah, and she becometh his wife, and he loveth her, and Isaac is comforted after <FI>the death of<Fi> his mother.

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love, — read the full passage →

but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also <FI>are<Fi> the wives to their own husbands in everything.

`And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'

And God saith, `Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.'

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth, — read the full passage →

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

The grace <FI>is<Fi> false, and the beauty <FI>is<Fi> vain, A woman fearing Jehovah, she may boast herself.

`Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made <FI>them<Fi> , from the beginning a male and a female made them,

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband; — read the full passage →

Better to sit on a corner of the roof, Than <FI>with<Fi> a woman of contentions and a house of company.

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

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them. — read the full passage →

and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, <FI>do<Fi> all things in the name of the Lord Jesus--giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won, — read the full passage →

Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled,

The masters! that which is righteous and equal to the servants give ye, having known that ye also have a Master in the heavens. — read the full passage →

whose adorning--let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments,

The heart of her husband hath trusted in her, And spoil he lacketh not.

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won, — read the full passage →

Her mouth she hath opened in wisdom, And the law of kindness <FI>is<Fi> on her tongue.

A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will--only in the Lord;

She hath girded with might her loins, And doth strengthen her arms.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, — read the full passage →

And if the one strengthen himself, the two stand against him; and the threefold cord is not hastily broken.

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

having beheld your pure behaviour in fear,

Words of a Gatherer, son of an obedient one, the declaration, an affirmation of the man: --I have wearied myself <FI>for<Fi> God, I have wearied myself <FI>for<Fi> God, and am consumed. — read the full passage →

And Jehovah God buildeth up the rib which He hath taken out of the man into a woman, and bringeth her in unto the man; — read the full passage →

And delight thyself on Jehovah, And He giveth to thee the petitions of thy heart.

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman,

Three things have been too wonderful for me, Yea, four that I have not known: — read the full passage →

For <FI>an object of<Fi> desire he who is separated doth seek, With all wisdom he intermeddleth. — read the full passage →

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →