What does the Bible say about help mate?
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The Bible teaches that God created marriage as a covenant partnership in which a husband and wife belong to one another, help one another, and reflect His wise design for human flourishing. In Genesis 2:18, God calls the woman a helper fit for the man, a phrase that conveys corresponding strength and necessary companionship, not inferiority. Genesis 2:24 grounds marriage in a new, one-flesh union. Ecclesiastes 4:9 praises the practical blessing of shared labor and mutual support. Though Scripture assigns the husband a distinct responsibility of loving, sacrificial headship, as in 1 Corinthians 11:3 and Ephesians 5:25, he must honor his wife as a fellow heir of grace (1 Peter 3:7) and love her as his own body (Ephesians 5:28).
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- Genesis 2:18
Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."
- Genesis 2:24
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
- Ecclesiastes 4:9
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.
- 1 Peter 3:7
You husbands, in like manner, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.
- 1 Corinthians 11:3
But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.
- Proverbs 18:22
Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, And obtains favor of Yahweh.
- Genesis 2:22
He made the rib, which Yahweh God had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man.
- Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
- Ephesians 5:28
Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
- Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
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