1 Corinthians 11:9

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

Have we no right to eat and to drink?

For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.

I don’t receive glory from men.

When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.

Therefore though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,

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.

God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then, do I labor and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

not because we don’t have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.

The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper comparable to him.

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

Lamech took two wives: the name of the first one was Adah, and the name of the second one was Zillah.

“It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no kind of work, whether native-born or a stranger who lives as a foreigner among you;

“However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement. It shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall afflict yourselves and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.”

“ ‘On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall afflict your souls. You shall do no kind of work;

Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.

Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our possessions.

He displayed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty many days, even one hundred eighty days.

Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

All sheep and cattle, yes, and the animals of the field,

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.

It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it honorable to seek one’s own honor.

Is this the fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to humble his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himself? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?

The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”

Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

His disciples said to him, “If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.”

He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.

They also honored us with many honors, and when we sailed, they put on board the things that we needed.

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?

What then is my reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake,

For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.

Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

For even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

Honor widows who are widows indeed.

Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.