¹⁸ The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

¹⁹ the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;

²⁰ the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;

²⁴ And David comforteth Bath-Sheba his wife, and goeth in unto her, and lieth with her, and she beareth a son, and he calleth his name Solomon; and Jehovah hath loved him,

³ to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

⁴ the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife.

⁵ Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

¹⁴ and above all these things, `have' love, which is a bond of the perfection,

¹⁵ and let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also ye were called in one body, and become thankful.

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;

¹⁷ and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, `do' all things in the name of the Lord Jesus -- giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.

¹⁸ The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

⁵ Put to death, then, your members that `are' upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry --

¹⁴ House and wealth `are' the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah `is' an understanding wife.

⁴ honourable `is' the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

¹⁵ see no one evil for evil may render to any one, but always that which is good pursue ye, both to one another and to all;

²⁷ they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, till the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the deluge came, and destroyed all;

³ Thy wife `is' as a fruitful vine in the sides of thy house, Thy sons as olive plants around thy table.

² Plead ye with your mother -- plead, (For she `is' not My wife, and I `am' not her husband,) And she turneth her whoredoms from before her, And her adulteries from between her breasts,

²⁵ The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

²⁶ that he might sanctify it, having cleansed `it' with the bathing of the water in the saying,

²⁷ that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;

¹⁸ flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

¹⁹ Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,

²⁰ for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

² for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;

³ so, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man's; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man's.

⁴ So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;

²⁵ The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

²⁶ that he might sanctify it, having cleansed `it' with the bathing of the water in the saying,

²⁷ that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;

²⁸ so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love;

²⁹ for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly,

³⁰ because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones;

³¹ `for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh;'

¹⁴ for the unbelieving husband hath been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife hath been sanctified in the husband; otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

¹⁰ whoremongers, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that to sound doctrine is adverse,

³ and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

³¹ `And it was said, That whoever may put away his wife, let him give to her a writing of divorce;

³² but I -- I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

³³ `Again, ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not swear falsely, but thou shalt pay to the Lord thine oaths;

⁴ The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

⁵ doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,

⁶ rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth;

⁷ all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth.

⁸ The love doth never fail; and whether `there be' prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

² and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

⁸ And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I `am';

⁹ and if they have not continence -- let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;

¹⁰ and to the married I announce -- not I, but the Lord -- let not a wife separate from a husband:

¹¹ but and if she may separate, let her remain unmarried, or to the husband let her be reconciled, and let not a husband send away a wife.

¹² And to the rest I speak -- not the Lord -- if any brother hath a wife unbelieving, and she is pleased to dwell with him, let him not send her away;

²¹ And Abijah strengtheneth himself, and taketh to him fourteen wives, and begetteth twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters,

⁶ so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'

¹⁹ And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

²⁰ idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects,

²¹ envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.

²² And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

⁴ And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made `them', from the beginning a male and a female made them,

⁵ and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh?

⁶ so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'

⁷ They say to him, `Why then did Moses command to give a roll of divorce, and to put her away?'

³⁶ Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because of thy brass being poured forth, And thy nakedness is revealed in thy whoredoms near thy lovers, And near all the idols of thy abominations, And according to the blood of thy sons, Whom thou hast given to them;

³⁷ Therefore, lo, I am assembling all thy lovers, To whom thou hast been sweet, And all whom thou hast loved, Besides all whom thou hast hated; And I have assembled them by thee round about, And have revealed thy nakedness to them, And they have seen all thy nakedness.

³⁸ And I have judged thee -- judgments of adultresses, And of women shedding blood, And have given thee blood, fury, and jealousy.

⁸ `When thou mayest be called by any one to marriage-feasts, thou mayest not recline on the first couch, lest a more honourable than thou may have been called by him,

²¹ yea they did not reform from their murders, nor from their sorceries, nor from their whoredoms, nor from their thefts.

¹ Sing, O barren, she hath not borne! Break forth with singing, and cry aloud, She hath not brought forth! For more `are' the sons of the desolate, Than the sons of the married one, said Jehovah.

²⁸ so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love;

²⁹ for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly,

³⁰ because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones;

³¹ `for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh;'

²² `Whoso' hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

²² The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

²³ because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ `is' head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

²⁴ but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also `are' the wives to their own husbands in everything.

²⁵ The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

³ for this is the will of God -- your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

⁴ that each of you know his own vessel to possess in sanctification and honour,

⁵ not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

⁶ that no one go beyond and defraud in the matter his brother, because an avenger `is' the Lord of all these, as also we spake before to you and testified,

³ to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

⁴ the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife.

⁵ Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

⁶ and this I say by way of concurrence -- not of command,

¹⁸ Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,

¹⁹ A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.

²⁰ And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?

¹⁴ and above all these things, `have' love, which is a bond of the perfection,

³⁶ And there was Anna, a prophetess, daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher, she was much advanced in days, having lived with an husband seven years from her virginity,

²⁹ So `is' he who hath gone in unto the wife of his neighbour, None who doth touch her is innocent.

⁹ Better to sit on a corner of the roof, Than `with' a woman of contentions and a house of company.

²⁹ and every one who left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for my name's sake, an hundredfold shall receive, and life age-during shall inherit;

⁴ and they said, `Moses suffered to write a bill of divorce, and to put away.'

⁵ And Jesus answering said to them, `For the stiffness of your heart he wrote you this command,

⁶ but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them;

⁷ on this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife,

⁸ and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh; so that they are no more two, but one flesh;

⁹ what therefore God did join together, let not man put asunder.'

¹⁰ And in the house again his disciples of the same thing questioned him,

²⁵ The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

²⁶ that he might sanctify it, having cleansed `it' with the bathing of the water in the saying,

²⁷ that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;

²⁸ so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love;

¹⁰ I greatly rejoice in Jehovah, Joy doth my soul in my God, For He clothed me with garments of salvation, With a robe of righteousness covereth Me, As a bridegroom prepareth ornaments, And as a bride putteth on her jewels.

²⁸ so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love;

⁹ The heart of man deviseth his way, And Jehovah establisheth his step.

⁶ if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate --

²⁷ `Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not commit adultery;

²⁸ but I -- I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

²⁹ `But, if thy right eye doth cause thee to stumble, pluck it out and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna.

¹⁴ Turn back, O backsliding sons, An affirmation of Jehovah. For I have ruled over you, And taken you one of a city, and two of a family, And have brought you to Zion,

¹ And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good `it is' for a man not to touch a woman,

² and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

³ to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

³² And I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;

³³ and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.

³⁴ The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.

³⁵ And this for your own profit I say: not that I may cast a noose upon you, but for the seemliness and devotedness to the Lord, undistractedly,

⁴ A virtuous woman `is' a crown to her husband, And as rottenness in his bones `is' one causing shame.

⁷ The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with `them', according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel -- to the wife -- imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

³¹ `for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh;'

²² The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

²³ because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ `is' head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

²⁴ but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also `are' the wives to their own husbands in everything.

²⁵ The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

²⁶ that he might sanctify it, having cleansed `it' with the bathing of the water in the saying,

²⁷ that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;

²⁸ so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love;

²⁹ for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly,

³⁰ because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones;

³¹ `for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh;'

³² this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;

³³ but ye also, every one in particular -- let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife -- that she may reverence the husband.

²² The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

²³ because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ `is' head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

²⁴ but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also `are' the wives to their own husbands in everything.

¹³ the meats `are' for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body `is' not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

¹⁴ and God both the Lord did raise, and us will raise up through His power.

¹⁵ Have ye not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make `them' members of an harlot? let it be not!

⁹ See life with the wife whom thou hast loved, all the days of the life of thy vanity, that He hath given to thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity, for it `is' thy portion in life, even of thy labour that thou art labouring at under the sun.

⁹ have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

¹⁰ nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, the reign of God shall inherit.

¹¹ And certain of you were these! but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

⁹ The two `are' better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labour.

¹⁰ For if they fall, the one raiseth up his companion, but wo to the one who falleth and there is not a second to raise him up!

¹¹ Also, if two lie down, then they have heat, but how hath one heat?

¹² And if the one strengthen himself, the two stand against him; and the threefold cord is not hastily broken.

¹³ Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who hath not known to be warned any more.

¹⁰ A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies `is' her price.

² because true and righteous `are' His judgments, because He did judge the great whore who did corrupt the earth in her whoredom, and He did avenge the blood of His servants at her hand;'

² The commencement of Jehovah's speaking by Hosea. And Jehovah saith unto Hosea, `Go, take to thee a woman of whoredoms, and children of whoredoms, for utterly go a-whoring doth the land from after Jehovah.'

² it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

³ not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,

⁴ his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity,

⁵ (and if any one his own house `how' to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

⁶ not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a judgment of the devil;

⁷ and it behoveth him also to have a good testimony from those without, that he may not fall into reproach and a snare of the devil.

⁸ Ministrants -- in like manner grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not given to filthy lucre,

⁹ having the secret of the faith in a pure conscience,

¹⁰ and let these also first be proved, then let them minister, being unblameable.

¹¹ Women -- in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.

¹² Ministrants -- let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,

¹³ for those who did minister well a good step to themselves do acquire, and much boldness in faith that `is' in Christ Jesus.

³² He who committeth adultery `with' a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.

³³ but ye also, every one in particular -- let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife -- that she may reverence the husband.

²⁰ `But I have against thee a few things: That thou dost suffer the woman Jezebel, who is calling herself a prophetess, to teach, and to lead astray, my servants to commit whoredom, and idol-sacrifices to eat;

¹⁰ And Jesus having bent himself back, and having seen no one but the woman, said to her, `Woman, where are those -- thine accusers? did no one pass sentence upon thee?'

¹¹ and she said, `No one, Sir;' and Jesus said to her, `Neither do I pass sentence on thee; be going on, and no more sin.'

¹² Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'

²⁴ `Teacher, Moses said, If any one may die not having children, his brother shall marry his wife, and shall raise up seed to his brother.

²⁵ `And there were with us seven brothers, and the first having married did die, and not having seed, he left his wife to his brother;

²⁶ in like manner also the second, and the third, unto the seventh,

²⁷ and last of all died also the woman;

²⁸ therefore in the rising again, of which of the seven shall she be wife -- for all had her?'

²⁹ And Jesus answering said to them, `Ye go astray, not knowing the Writings, nor the power of God;

³⁰ for in the rising again they do not marry, nor are they given in marriage, but are as messengers of God in heaven.

³¹ `And concerning the rising again of the dead, did ye not read that which was spoken to you by God, saying,

³⁹ A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will -- only in the Lord;

¹ Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations -- as that one hath the wife of the father! --

² and ye are having been puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he may be removed out of the midst of you who did this work,

³ for I indeed, as being absent as to the body, and present as to the spirit, have already judged, as being present, him who so wrought this thing:

¹⁵ And He did not make one `only', And He hath the remnant of the Spirit. And what `is' the one `alone'! He is seeking a godly seed. And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And with the wife of thy youth, None doth deal treacherously.

¹⁶ For `I' hate sending away, said Jehovah, God of Israel, And He `who' hath covered violence with his clothing, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And ye do not deal treacherously.

¹⁷ Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words, And ye have said: `In what have we wearied Him?' In your saying: `Every evil-doer `is' good in the eyes of Jehovah, And in them He is delighting,' Or, `Where `is' the God of judgment?'

⁵ and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh?

⁶ so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'

⁷ They say to him, `Why then did Moses command to give a roll of divorce, and to put her away?'

¹² and if a woman may put away her husband, and is married to another, she committeth adultery.'

¹⁴ Become not yoked with others -- unbelievers, for what partaking `is there' to righteousness and lawlessness?