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Colossians 3:19
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Colossians 3:19
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19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
Colossians 3:19
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Colossians 3:19
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19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
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1 Peter 3:7
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1 Peter 3:7
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7 Husbands,(A) in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.
1 Peter 3:7
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1 Peter 3:7
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7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
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Genesis 2:23-24
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Genesis 2:23-24
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Genesis 2:23-24
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Genesis 2:23-24
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23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
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Colossians 3:21
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Colossians 3:21
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21 Fathers,[a] do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged.
Footnotes
- Colossians 3:21 Or Parents
Colossians 3:21
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Colossians 3:21
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21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
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Ephesians 5:25
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Ephesians 5:25
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Ephesians 5:25
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Ephesians 5:25
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25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
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Ephesians 5:28-29
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Ephesians 5:28-29
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28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives(A) as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church—
Ephesians 5:28-29
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Ephesians 5:28-29
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28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
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Ephesians 4:31
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Ephesians 4:31
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31 Get rid of(A) all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.(B)
Ephesians 4:31
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Ephesians 4:31
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31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
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Ephesians 5:33
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Ephesians 5:33
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33 However, each one of you also must love his wife(A) as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Ephesians 5:33
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Ephesians 5:33
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33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
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Proverbs 5:18-19
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Proverbs 5:18-19
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Proverbs 5:18-19
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Proverbs 5:18-19
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18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
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Ecclesiastes 9:9
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Ecclesiastes 9:9
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9 Enjoy life with your wife,(A) whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun—all your meaningless days. For this is your lot(B) in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 9:9
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Ecclesiastes 9:9
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9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
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Malachi 2:14-16
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Malachi 2:14-16
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14 You ask,(A) “Why?” It is because the Lord is the witness(B) between you and the wife of your youth.(C) You have been unfaithful to her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant.(D)
15 Has not the one God made you?(E) You belong to him in body and spirit. And what does the one God seek? Godly offspring.[a](F) So be on your guard,(G) and do not be unfaithful(H) to the wife of your youth.
16 “The man who hates and divorces his wife,(I)” says the Lord, the God of Israel, “does violence to the one he should protect,”[b](J) says the Lord Almighty.
So be on your guard,(K) and do not be unfaithful.
Footnotes
- Malachi 2:15 The meaning of the Hebrew for the first part of this verse is uncertain.
- Malachi 2:16 Or “I hate divorce,” says the Lord, the God of Israel, “because the man who divorces his wife covers his garment with violence,”
Malachi 2:14-16
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Malachi 2:14-16
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14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
16 For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
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Genesis 24:67
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Genesis 24:67
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67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
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James 3:14
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James 3:14
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14 But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition(A) in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth.(B)
James 3:14
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James 3:14
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14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
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