Quotes About Relationship

Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you?

It is not our affection, but yours, that is restrained.

And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

I do not say this to condemn you. I have said before that you so occupy our hearts that we live and die together with you.

So even though I wrote to you, it was not on account of the one who did wrong or the one who was harmed, but rather that your earnestness on our behalf would be made clear to you in the sight of God.

Indeed, I was not embarrassed by anything I had boasted to him about you. But just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus has proved to be true as well.

And his affection for you is even greater when he remembers that you were all obedient as you welcomed him with fear and trembling.

I rejoice that I can have complete confidence in you.

I do not want to seem to be trying to frighten you by my letters.

I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

And for the sake of your souls, I will most gladly spend my money and myself. If I love you more, will you love me less?

A mediator is unnecessary, however, for only one party; but God is one.

And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”

I fear for you, that my efforts for you may have been in vain.

I beg you, brothers, become like me, for I became like you. You have done me no wrong.

Those people are zealous for you, but not in a good way. Instead, they want to isolate you from us, so that you may be zealous for them.

how I wish I could be with you now and change my tone, because I am perplexed about you.

Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,

For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior.

Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.

Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

For you know that we treated each of you as a father treats his own children—