"And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh..." 1 Timothy 3:16

"Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband" Ephesians 5:33.

"Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ" 1 Peter 1:13.

"Andrew, Simon Peter's brother...first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. And he brought him to Jesus" John 1:40-42.

"For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church" Ephesians 5:31, 32.

"We believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, begotten of His Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, Very God of Very God, begotten not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made" Nicene Creed, Article 2.

"I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: But my mercy shall not depart away from him..." 2 Samuel 7:14, 15a. "Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses" Psalm 107:6, 13.

"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called... The mighty God, The everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace" Isaiah 9:6.

"Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to the knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered" 1 Peter 3:7.

"And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul" Genesis 2:7.