15 *And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, *choose this day whom you will serve, whether *the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or *the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. *But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."

4 *Love is patient and *kind; love *does not envy or boast; it *is not arrogant 5 or rude. It *does not insist on its own way; it *is not irritable or resentful;*6 it *does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but *rejoices with the truth. 7 *Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, *endures all things.

14 And above all these put on *love, which *binds everything together in *perfect harmony. 15 And let *the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called *in one body. And *be thankful. 16 Let *the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, *singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, *with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 And *whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, *giving thanks to God the Father through him.

14 And above all these put on *love, which *binds everything together in *perfect harmony.

15 See that *no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always *seek to do good to one another and to everyone.

6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. *What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate."

9 *What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate."

18 Then the Lord God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; *I will make him a helper fit for* him."

24 *Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

24 *Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

26 Then God said, *"Let us make man* in our image, *after our likeness. And *let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

27 So God created man in his own image,

in the image of God he created him;

*male and female he created them.

28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, *"Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

7 And you,* be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it."

9 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.

15 *Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union?* And what was the one God* seeking?**Godly offspring. So guard yourselves* in your spirit, and let none of you be *faithless to the wife of your youth.

25 *Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and *gave himself up for her,

28 In the same way *husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,

31 *"Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and *the two shall become one flesh."

31 *Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 32 *Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, *forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

25 Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you *speak the truth with his neighbor, for *we are members one of another. 26 *Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and *give no opportunity to the devil. 28 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather *let him labor, *doing honest work with his own hands, so *that he may have something to share with anyone in need. 29 *Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give *grace to those who hear. 30 And *do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, *by whom you were sealed for the day of *redemption. 31 *Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 32 *Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, *forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

22 He who finds *a wife finds *a good thing

and *obtains favor *from the Lord.

3 Do nothing from *selfish ambition or *conceit, but in *humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you *look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

26 for in Christ Jesus *you are all sons of God, through faith. 27 For as many of you as *were baptized *into Christ have *put on Christ. 28 *There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave* nor free, *there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

4 *Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge *the sexually immoral and adulterous.

14 *Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For *what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or *what fellowship has light with darkness?

11 Nevertheless, *in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman;