Being A Good Husband

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Ye knowthis, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: — read the full passage →

The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. — read the full passage →

Bless them that persecute you; bless, and curse not. — read the full passage →

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that were wanting, and appoint elders in every city, as I gave thee charge; — read the full passage →

but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice:

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; — read the full passage →

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

but I say unto you, that every one who is angry with his brother shall be in danger of the judgment; and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council; and whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of the hell of fire.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

neither give place to the devil.

Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

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.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John; — read the full passage →

And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ. — read the full passage →

Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: — read the full passage →

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father; — read the full passage →

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our Saviour, and Christ Jesus our hope; — read the full passage →

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; — read the full passage →

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. — read the full passage →

Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

Whoseadorninglet it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel; — read the full passage →

if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

beholding your chaste behaviorcoupledwith fear.

But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. — read the full passage →

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye now are, if ye do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband

And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

Whoseadorninglet it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel;

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.

For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life;

but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible apparel of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. — read the full passage →

But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Therefore I say unto you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment?

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, — read the full passage →

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband — read the full passage →