Ephesians 5:33

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

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.”

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

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.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ,

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?”

They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”

Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings.

He said, “Yes.” When he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth receive toll or tribute? From their children, or from strangers?”

“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

But Peter raised him up, saying, “Stand up! I myself am also a man.”

Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.

So Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

Now I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. When I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who had shown me these things.

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

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

“ ‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.

Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding keeps his way straight.

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

Don’t say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will repay the man according to his work.”

“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in the Syrian language, “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.”

They answered Nebuchadnezzar the king, “O king, live for ever!

A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

Jesus answered them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” They marveled greatly at him.

came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

He said to them, “Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

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.

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honor,

Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep God’s commandments and hold Jesus’ testimony.

I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why shouldn’t my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?”

When the king’s decree which he shall make is published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give their husbands honor, both great and small.”

Then these presidents and local governors assembled together to the king, and said this to him, “King Darius, live forever!

They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

In the law it is written, “By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. They won’t even hear me that way, says the Lord.”

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word,

Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”

For this deed of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to show contempt for their husbands, when it is reported, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she didn’t come.’

Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

Let the wives be quiet in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says,

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

seeing your pure behavior in fear.

Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and showed respect to the king, and said, “Let my lord king David live forever!”

See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.

I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, “Look! Don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy.”