Being A Good Husband

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to 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.

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

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

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, 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 for it; — read the full passage →

And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

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

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

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

For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee: — read the full passage →

But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

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

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; — read the full passage →

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

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 whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

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

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

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

Neither give place to the devil.

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

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

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

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

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

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

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth 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.

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

The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

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

When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants 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, even as unto babes in Christ. — read the full passage →

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

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

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

House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.

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

For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

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

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. — read the full passage →

A wise son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke. — read the full passage →

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope; — read the full passage →

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; — read the full passage →

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

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.

This is a true saying, If a man desire 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.

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 →

Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. — read the full passage →

Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; — read the full passage →

If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

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

While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. — read the full passage →

Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

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

She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.

The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.

In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.

Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of 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 be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

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

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

She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.

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

But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. — read the full passage →

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

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

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought 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 meat, and the body than raiment?

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

That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, — read the full passage →

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: — read the full passage →

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal, — read the full passage →

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

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →