Wives Nagging

A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:

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

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery.”

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

For those who have served well gain for themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.

(but if a man doesn’t know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)

one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

He answered, “What did Moses command you?”

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.”

holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money;

Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.

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.

(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

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

so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.

In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter.

and the two will become one flesh,so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,

But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.

But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.

They said, “Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her.”

The inhabitant won’t say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell therein will be forgiven their iniquity.