Genesis 2:18
Hebrew Text— Genesis 2:18Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
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Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.
Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them Adam.
It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.’ ”
For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.
Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which he had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.
Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.
For man is not from woman, but woman from man;
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
For Adam was formed first, then Eve.
Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
May Yahweh grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.” Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices, and wept.
For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh.
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.
everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’ ”
for man wasn’t created for the woman, but woman for the man.
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
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.
Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,
Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom, you have made them all. The earth is full of your riches.
Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.
All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off,” says your God.
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.
I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.
and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honor,
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.
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.
If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives in addition to my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you.”
for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.
I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
He said to them, “Yahweh is witness against you, and his anointed is witness today, that you have not found anything in my hand.” They said, “He is witness.”
“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.
Let Yahweh’s glory endure forever. Let Yahweh rejoice in his works.
He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”
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.
He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.
Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!
Then they said to Jeremiah, “May Yahweh be a true and faithful witness among us, if we don’t do according to all the word with which Yahweh your God sends you to tell us.
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.
You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in Yahweh’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’
What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
and said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” Jesus said to them, “Yes. Did you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?’ ”
They were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well. He makes even the deaf hear, and the mute speak!”
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband.
For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,
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,
But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.
God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.
Lamech took two wives: the name of the first one was Adah, and the name of the second one was Zillah.
then she tells me, “Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,”—let her be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my master’s son.’
For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as great as this thing is, or has been heard like it?
All sheep and cattle, yes, and the animals of the field,
His disciples said to him, “If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.”
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.
For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.
God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
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.
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.