- And where a single man can be overcome,
two together will be able to resist.
A cord with three strands is not easily broken. - Who can find a worthy wife?
She is far more precious than pearls. - And if one should fall,
his companion will help him up.
How pathetic is the man who is alone and falls
and has no one to assist him to his feet. - You are all-beautiful, my love,
without the slightest blemish. - In view of all this, you should make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with piety, and piety with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love.
- Two are better than one:
they earn a far greater reward for their toil. - Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her in order to sanctify her by cleansing her with water and the word.
- May the Lord cause your love to increase and overflow for one another and for everyone else, just as our love does for you.
- In everything, deal with others as you would like them to deal with you. This is the Law and the Prophets.
- Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not treat them harshly.
- Do not associate with unbelievers. For what basis can there be for a partnership between righteousness and lawlessness? What do light and darkness have in common?
- A house and wealth are inherited from parents,
but a prudent wife is a gift from the Lord. - And the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I wish to make another creature who will be like him.”
- However, to avoid the temptation to immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
- As iron sharpens iron,
so a man sharpens the wits of his neighbor. - Does it now appear to you that I am trying to gain the approval of human beings rather than the approval of God? Am I seeking to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
- And whoever does not provide for relatives, especially for those who are living with him, has disowned the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
- A true friend is one at all times,
and a brother is born to render help in time of need. - Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, just as Christ is the head of the Church, the body of which he is the Savior.
- In the same way, husbands should love their wives as they do their own bodies. The man who loves his wife loves himself.
- An honorable name is more to be desired than great riches,
and high esteem is preferable to silver and gold. - However, each one of you should love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife should respect her husband.
- You shall not kill. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness. Honor your father and your mother. Love your neighbor as yourself.
But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for I bring you good news of great joy for all the people.”