Colossians 3:19
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19 Husbands, love your wives, and (A)do not be harsh with them.
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1 Peter 3:7
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7 Likewise, (A)husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker (B)vessel, since they are heirs with you[a] of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
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- 1 Peter 3:7 Some manuscripts since you are joint heirs
Genesis 2:23-24
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23 Then the man said,
“This at last is (A)bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
because she was (B)taken out of Man.”[a]
24 (C)Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
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- Genesis 2:23 The Hebrew words for woman (ishshah) and man (ish) sound alike
Colossians 3:21
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21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
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Ephesians 5:25
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25 (A)Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and (B)gave himself up for her,
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Ephesians 5:28-29
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28 In the same way (A)husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,
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Ephesians 4:31
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31 (A)Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
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Proverbs 5:18-19
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18 Let your (A)fountain be blessed,
and (B)rejoice in (C)the wife of your youth,
19 a lovely (D)deer, a graceful doe.
Let her breasts (E)fill you at all times with delight;
be intoxicated[a] always in her love.
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- Proverbs 5:19 Hebrew be led astray; also verse 20
Ephesians 5:33
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33 However, (A)let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she (B)respects her husband.
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Ecclesiastes 9:9
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9 Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your (A)vain[a] life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your (B)portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.
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- Ecclesiastes 9:9 The Hebrew term hebel can refer to a “vapor” or “mere breath” (see note on 1:2)
Malachi 2:14-16
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14 (A)But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord (B)was witness between you and the wife of your youth, (C)to whom (D)you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. 15 (E)Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union?[a] And what was the one God[b] seeking?[c] (F)Godly offspring. So guard yourselves[d] in your spirit, and let none of you be (G)faithless to the wife of your youth. 16 “For (H)the man who does not love his wife but divorces her,[e] says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers[f] his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and (I)do not be faithless.”
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- Malachi 2:15 Hebrew in it
- Malachi 2:15 Hebrew the one
- Malachi 2:15 Or And not one has done this who has a portion of the Spirit. And what was that one seeking?
- Malachi 2:15 Or So take care; also verse 16
- Malachi 2:16 Hebrew who hates and divorces
- Malachi 2:16 Probable meaning (compare Septuagint and Deuteronomy 24:1–4); or “The Lord, the God of Israel, says that he hates divorce, and him who covers
James 3:14
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14 But if you have bitter (A)jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.
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Luke 14:26
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26 (A)“If anyone comes to me and (B)does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, (C)yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
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Genesis 24:67
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67 Then Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was (A)comforted after his mother's (B)death.
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Romans 3:14
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14 (A)“Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”
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