Being A Good Husband

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

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

Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth, — read the full passage →

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, — read the full passage →

and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh?

The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good; — read the full passage →

Bless those persecuting you; bless, and curse not; — read the full passage →

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee; — read the full passage →

but I--I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

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

the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;

aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers, — read the full passage →

<FI> Whoso<Fi> hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

but I--I say to you, that every one who is angry at his brother without cause, shall be in danger of the judgment, and whoever may say to his brother, Empty fellow! shall be in danger of the sanhedrim, and whoever may say, Rebel! shall be in danger of the gehenna of the fire.

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

Followers of me become ye, as I also <FI>am<Fi> of Christ. — read the full passage →

neither give place to the devil;

Ministrants--let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,

A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies <FI>is<Fi> her price.

And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper--as his counterpart.'

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.

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

and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

Words of Lemuel a king, a declaration that his mother taught him: — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

`When a man taketh a new wife, he doth not go out into the host, and <FI>one<Fi> doth not pass over unto him for anything; free he is at his own house one year, and hath rejoiced his wife whom he hath taken.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly--as to babes in Christ; — read the full passage →

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →

House and wealth <FI>are<Fi> the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> an understanding wife.

`Have not I commanded thee? be strong and courageous; be not terrified nor affrighted, for with thee <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah thy God in every <FI>place<Fi> whither thou goest.'

because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ <FI>is<Fi> head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

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

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, — read the full passage →

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

A wise son--the instruction of a father, And a scorner--he hath not heard rebuke. — read the full passage →

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

Her sons have risen up, and pronounce her happy, Her husband, and he praiseth her,

A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies <FI>is<Fi> her price. — read the full passage →

Better to dwell in a wilderness land, Than <FI>with<Fi> a woman of contentions and anger.

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife--himself he doth love;

sober, pure, keepers of <FI>their own<Fi> houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

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

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack,

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

And Jehovah God formeth the man--dust from the ground, and breatheth into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becometh a living creature.

Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth; — read the full passage →

Hast thou been bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; hast thou been loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

The Visions of Isaiah son of Amoz, that he hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

Thy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together round about, And Thou swallowest me up! — read the full passage →

whose adorning--let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments, — read the full passage →

if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate--

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

Unto the woman He said, `Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband <FI>is<Fi> thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'

having beheld your pure behaviour in fear,

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband; — read the full passage →

Every wise woman hath builded her house, And the foolish with her hands breaketh it down.

A virtuous woman <FI>is<Fi> a crown to her husband, And as rottenness in his bones <FI>is<Fi> one causing shame.

as Sarah was obedient to Abraham, calling him `sir,' of whom ye did become daughters, doing good, and not fearing any terror.

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

and to the married I announce--not I, but the Lord--let not a wife separate from a husband:

And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made <FI>them<Fi> , from the beginning a male and a female made them, — read the full passage →

Her mouth she hath opened in wisdom, And the law of kindness <FI>is<Fi> on her tongue.

The heart of her husband hath trusted in her, And spoil he lacketh not.

In the fear of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> strong confidence, And to His sons there is a refuge.

whose adorning--let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments,

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

`for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh;'

for if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in his life.

And withheld are showers, and gathered rain hath not been. The forehead of a whorish woman thou hast, Thou hast refused to be ashamed.

She hath done him good, and not evil, All days of her life.

A calamity to his father <FI>is<Fi> a foolish son, And the contentions of a wife <FI>are<Fi> a continual dropping.

but--the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible thing of the meek and quiet spirit, which is, before God, of great price,

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

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

`Because of this I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, nor for your body, what ye may put on. Is not the life more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing?

Words of a preacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem: — read the full passage →

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed <FI>it<Fi> with the bathing of the water in the saying, — read the full passage →

and to the married I announce--not I, but the Lord--let not a wife separate from a husband: — read the full passage →

Set me as a seal on thy heart, as a seal on thine arm, For strong as death is love, Sharp as Sheol is jealousy, Its burnings <FI>are<Fi> burnings of fire, a flame of Jah!

Words of a Gatherer, son of an obedient one, the declaration, an affirmation of the man: --I have wearied myself <FI>for<Fi> God, I have wearied myself <FI>for<Fi> God, and am consumed. — read the full passage →

and if wrong in your eyes to serve Jehovah--choose for you to-day whom ye do serve; --whether the gods whom your fathers served, which <FI>are<Fi> beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorite in whose land ye are dwelling; and I and my house--we serve Jehovah.'

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> sons, A reward <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of the womb. — read the full passage →