Respect the Wife
10 passages
- Colossians 3:19
Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
Read it in context - 1 Peter 3:7
Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as a delicate vessel, and with honor as fellow heirs of the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
Read it in context - Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
Read it in context - Ephesians 5:33
Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Read it in context - Hebrews 13:4
Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Read it in context - Colossians 3:8
But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.
Read it in context - Malachi 2:14–16
14Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. 15Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth. 16“For I hate divorce,” says the LORD, the God of Israel. “He who divorces his wife covers his garment with violence,” says the LORD of Hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith.
Read it in context - 1 Corinthians 11:11
In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.
Read it in context - Genesis 2:24
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Read it in context - Ephesians 4:32
Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you.
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