1 Corinthians 7:3
Let the husband give to the wife what is right; and let the wife do the same to the husband.
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- Exod 21:10 : 10 And if he takes another woman, her food and clothing and her married rights are not to be less.
- 1 Pet 3:7 : 7 And you husbands, give thought to your way of life with your wives, giving honour to the woman who is the feebler vessel, but who has an equal part in the heritage of the grace of life; so that you may not be kept from prayer.
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- 1 Cor 7:4-63 verses86%
4The wife has not power over her body, but the husband; and in the same way the husband has not power over his body, but the wife.
5Do not keep back from one another what is right, but only for a short time, and by agreement, so that you may give yourselves to prayer, and come together again; so that Satan may not get the better of you through your loss of self-control.
6But this I say as my opinion, and not as an order of the Lord.
- 1 Cor 7:1-22 verses82%
1Now, as to the things in your letter to me: It is good for a man to have nothing to do with a woman.
2But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.
- Eph 5:31-333 verses79%
31For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
32This is a great secret: but my words are about Christ and the church.
33But do you, everyone, have love for his wife, even as for himself; and let the wife see that she has respect for her husband.
- Eph 5:28-292 verses78%
28Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:
29For no man ever had hate for his flesh; but he gives it food and takes care of it, even as Christ does for the church;
- 1 Pet 3:7-82 verses78%
7And you husbands, give thought to your way of life with your wives, giving honour to the woman who is the feebler vessel, but who has an equal part in the heritage of the grace of life; so that you may not be kept from prayer.
8Last of all, see that you are all in agreement; feeling for one another, loving one another like brothers, full of pity, without pride:
- Col 3:18-192 verses78%
18Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as is right in the Lord.
19Husbands, have love for your wives, and be not bitter against them.
- Eph 5:22-254 verses77%
22Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as of the Lord.
23For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.
24And as the church is under Christ's authority, so let wives be under the rule of their husbands in all things.
25Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it;
- 1 Cor 7:10-145 verses76%
10But to the married I give orders, though not I but the Lord, that the wife may not go away from her husband
11(Or if she goes away from him, let her keep unmarried, or be united to her husband again); and that the husband may not go away from his wife.
12But to the rest I say, and not the Lord; If a brother has a wife who is not a Christian, and it is her desire to go on living with him, let him not go away from her.
13And if a woman has a husband who is not a Christian, and it is his desire to go on living with her, let her not go away from her husband.
14For the husband who has not faith is made holy through his Christian wife, and the wife who is not a Christian is made holy through the brother: if not, your children would be unholy, but now are they holy.
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1Wives, be ruled by your husbands; so that even if some of them give no attention to the word, their hearts may be changed by the behaviour of their wives,
- 1 Cor 7:33-364 verses74%
33But the married man gives his attention to the things of this world, how he may give pleasure to his wife.
34And the wife is not the same as the virgin. The virgin gives her mind to the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy in body and in spirit: but the married woman takes thought for the things of the world, how she may give pleasure to her husband.
35Now I say this for your profit; not to make things hard for you, but because of what is right, and so that you may be able to give all your attention to the things of the Lord.
36But if, in any man's opinion, he is not doing what is right for his virgin, if she is past her best years, and there is need for it, let him do what seems right to him; it is no sin; let them be married.
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16For how may you be certain, O wife, that you will not be the cause of salvation to your husband? or you, O husband, that you may not do the same for your wife?
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7For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife;
- Rom 7:2-32 verses73%
2For the woman who has a husband is placed by the law under the power of her husband as long as he is living; but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law of the husband.
3So if, while the husband is living, she is joined to another man, she will get the name of one who is untrue to her husband: but if the husband is dead, she is free from the law, so that she is not untrue, even if she takes another man.
- 1 Cor 7:38-392 verses72%
38So then, he who gets married to his virgin does well, and he who keeps her unmarried does better.
39It is right for a wife to be with her husband as long as he is living; but when her husband is dead, she is free to be married to another; but only to a Christian.
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11But the woman is not separate from the man, and the man is not separate from the woman in the Lord.
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5And these were the ornaments of the holy women of the past, whose hope was in God, being ruled by their husbands:
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24For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.
- Exod 21:10-112 verses71%
10And if he takes another woman, her food and clothing and her married rights are not to be less.
11And if he does not do these three things for her, she has the right to go free without payment.
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1If a man takes a wife, and after they are married she is unpleasing to him because of some bad quality in her, let him give her a statement in writing and send her away from his house.
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27If you are married to a wife, make no attempt to get free from her: if you are free from a wife, do not take a wife.
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10Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body.
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7For it is not right for a man to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
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7Give to all what is their right: taxes to him whose they are, payment to him whose right it is, fear to whom fear, honour to whom honour is to be given.
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3But it is important for you to keep this fact in mind, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.
- Num 30:6-72 verses69%
6But if her father, hearing of it, makes her take back her word, then the oaths or the undertakings she has given will have no force; and she will have forgiveness from the Lord, because her oath was broken by her father.
7And if she is married to a husband at the time when she is under an oath or an undertaking given without thought;
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5To be wise in mind, clean in heart, kind; working in their houses, living under the authority of their husbands; so that no evil may be said of the word of God.
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11If she made an oath while she was under the authority of her husband,
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5For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?