Thematic Bible: Duty of, to wives


Thematic Bible





and also if she is separated let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to the husband, and let not a husband leave his wife. But to the rest I speak, not the Lord, If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is pleased to live with him, let him not leave her;

Husbands, love your wives as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify it, purifying it with the washing of water with the word, that he might present the church to himself glorious, not having a spot or wrinkle or any thing of the kind, but that it should be holy and blameless. read more.
Husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also the church; for we are members of his body. For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery; but I speak of Christ and the church. But do you also, individually, each one so love his wife as himself, and the wife [see] that she reverences the husband.





And the Pharisees came to him to try him, and said, Is it lawful [for a man] to put away his wife for every cause? And he answered and said, Have you not read that the Creator at the beginning made them male and female? and he said, On this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh. read more.
So that they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has yoked together, let not man separate. They said to him, Why then did Moses command us to give a bill of divorcement, and put her away? He said to them, Moses, on account of your hardness of heart, allowed you to put away your wives; but from the beginning it was not so. And I tell you, that whoever puts away his wife, except for adultery, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her that is put away, commits adultery.