12 verses · World English Bible
God’s design for marriage: faithful love, patience, honour and commitment.
“Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.”
Read it in context“What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.””
Read it in context“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for her,”
Read it in context“Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”
Read it in context“Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,”
Read it in context“bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.”
Read it in context“Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.”
Read it in context“Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of the LORD.”
Read it in context“Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.”
Read it in context“If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.”
Read it in context“You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.”
Read it in context“Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.”
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