Being A Husband

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

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 →

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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;

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.

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

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

But say the things which fit sound doctrine, — 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.”

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

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?’

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

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

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

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice. — read the full passage →

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.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

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

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

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

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 gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

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

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

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

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

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

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

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 →

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; — 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.

neither give place to the devil.

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

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

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

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 →

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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

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

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; — 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 →

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 →

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

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

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

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

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.

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

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

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 →

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.

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

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

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

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

(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

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

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.

He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

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

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.