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 →

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 →

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.

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,

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 →

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

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 →

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

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.

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 →

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 →

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 →

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.

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?

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 →