Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.

The LORD God also said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper.”

Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Carefully consider what is right in the eyes of everybody.

A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.

Finally, all of you, be like-minded and sympathetic, love as brothers, be tenderhearted and humble. Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.

In those days when the disciples were increasing in number, the Grecian Jews among them began to grumble against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food. So the Twelve summoned all the disciples and said, “It is unacceptable for us to neglect the word of God in order to wait on tables. Therefore, brothers, select from among you seven men confirmed to be full of the Spirit and wisdom. We will appoint this responsibility to them and will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” This proposal pleased the whole group. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, as well as Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas from Antioch, a convert to Judaism. . . .

Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes, but from the inner disposition of your heart, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in God’s sight.

He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.

The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife. Do not deprive each other, except by mutual consent and for a time, so you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan will not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

Remember those in prison as if you were bound with them, and those who are mistreated as if you were suffering with them.

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of the fool spouts folly.

Without wood, a fire goes out; without gossip, a conflict ceases.

Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good. In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, managers of their households, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be discredited.

Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

Like a broken tooth or a foot out of joint is confidence in a faithless man in time of trouble.

The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing.

Houses and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.

Then a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart. She is loud and defiant; her feet do not remain at home.

Lying lips are detestable to the LORD, but those who deal faithfully are His delight.

A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.

Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.

For man did not come from woman, but woman from man. Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.

Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.

These are the words of King Lemuel—the burden that his mother taught him: What shall I say, O my son? What, O son of my womb? What, O son of my vows? Do not spend your strength on women or your vigor on those who ruin kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink, lest they drink and forget what is decreed, depriving all the oppressed of justice. . . .

She brings him good and not harm all the days of her life.