Topic

Being A Good Husband

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1 Peter 3:7

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.

1 Corinthians 7:1–40

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

James 1:19–20

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

Proverbs 5:18–19

Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →

1 Timothy 3:2

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

Ephesians 4:26

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

Ephesians 5:25–30

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

Matthew 19:5

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?

Romans 12:9–21

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

Romans 12:14–21

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

Ephesians 6:4

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

Titus 1:5–9

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 →

Matthew 5:32

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.

Ephesians 4:31

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

Colossians 3:19

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

Titus 2:3–4

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 →

Proverbs 18:22

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.

1 Corinthians 6:18

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

Matthew 5:22

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.

Genesis 1:27

And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Ephesians 5:25

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

1 Corinthians 11:1–34

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

Ephesians 4:27

neither give place to the devil.

1 Timothy 3:12

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

Proverbs 31:10

A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.

Genesis 2:18

And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.

1 Timothy 5:8

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

Proverbs 22:6

Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Ephesians 5:33

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

Colossians 3:1

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

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.

Genesis 2:24

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Proverbs 31:1–31

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

John 3:16

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.

Deuteronomy 24:5

When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath taken.

Revelation 1:1–20

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 →

1 Corinthians 3:1–23

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

John 3:1–36

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

Hebrews 13:4

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

Psalms 23:1–6

Jehovah is my shepherd; I shall not want. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 19:14

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

Joshua 1:9

Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not affrighted, neither be thou dismayed: for Jehovah thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

Ephesians 5:23

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.

Ephesians 5:20–21

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

1 Peter 4:8

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

1 Peter 3:1

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;

Ephesians 5:25–33

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

Ephesians 5:22

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

1 Corinthians 13:1–13

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 →

Proverbs 13:1–10

A wise sonhearethhis father’s instruction; But a scoffer heareth not rebuke. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:21

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Proverbs 31:28

Her children rise up, and call her blessed; Her husbandalso, and he praiseth her, saying:

Proverbs 31:10–31

A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 21:19

It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.

Ephesians 5:28

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

Titus 2:5

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

1 Timothy 1:1–20

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

Ephesians 5:1–33

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

Psalms 23:1

Jehovah is my shepherd; I shall not want.

Colossians 3:18

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

Genesis 2:7

And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

1 Timothy 3:1–16

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

1 Corinthians 7:27

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

Isaiah 1:1–31

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

Job 10:8–12

Thy hands have framed me and fashioned me Together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. — read the full passage →

1 Peter 3:3–4

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 →

Titus 1:6

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

Ephesians 5:22–33

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

Genesis 3:16

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

1 Peter 3:2

beholding your chaste behaviorcoupledwith fear.

1 Corinthians 7:2–5

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

Proverbs 14:1

Every wise woman buildeth her house; But the foolish plucketh it down with her own hands.

Proverbs 12:4

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

1 Peter 3:6

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.

Philippians 4:13

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

Ephesians 4:25

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

1 Corinthians 7:10

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

Matthew 19:4–6

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 →

Proverbs 31:26

She openeth her mouth with wisdom; And the law of kindness is on her tongue.

Proverbs 31:11

The heart of her husband trusteth in her, And he shall have no lack of gain.

Proverbs 14:26

In the fear of Jehovah is strong confidence; And his children shall have a place of refuge.

1 Peter 3:3

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

Ephesians 6:1–3

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

Ephesians 5:31

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

Romans 5:10

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;

Jeremiah 3:3

Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; yet thou hadst a harlot’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.

Proverbs 31:12

She doeth him good and not evil All the days of her life.

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

1 Peter 3:4

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.

Ephesians 5:21–32

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

1 Corinthians 7:2

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

Romans 5:8

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

Matthew 6:25

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?

Ecclesiastes 1:1–18

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:26–27

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

1 Corinthians 7:10–11

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 →

Song of Solomon 8:6

Set me as a seal upon thy heart, As a seal upon thine arm: For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as Sheol; The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, A very flame of Jehovah.

Proverbs 30:1–33

The words of Agur the son of Jakeh; the oracle. The man saith unto Ithiel, unto Ithiel and Ucal: — read the full passage →

Joshua 24:15

And if it seem evil unto you to serve Jehovah, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.

Psalms 127:3–5

Lo, children are a heritage of Jehovah; Andthe fruit of the womb ishisreward. — read the full passage →

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