Being A Good Husband

You husbands, in the same way, 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.

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; — read the full passage →

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

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

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

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

Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse. — read the full passage →

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you; — read the full passage →

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

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

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

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

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

neither give place to the devil.

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

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

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

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

If then you 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.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

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

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies 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 held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

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

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

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

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke. — read the full passage →

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:

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

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

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

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

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

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

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

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

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — read the full passage →

Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek 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 →

“‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me. — read the full passage →

Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing; — read the full passage →

if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

seeing your pure behavior in fear.

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

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

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

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

She opens her mouth with wisdom. Faithful instruction is on her tongue.

The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain.

In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.

Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;

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

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

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

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute’s forehead, you refused to be ashamed.

She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.

A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.

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

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

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

Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

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

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

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →

Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh.

The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, the oracle: the man says to Ithiel, to Ithiel and Ucal: — read the full passage →

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

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →