Being A Husband

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

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

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

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

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

but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.

Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →

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

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

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;

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.

A soft answer turneth away wrath; But a grievous word stirreth up anger.

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

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

For thy Maker is thy husband; Jehovah of hosts is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is thy Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

But speak thou the things which befit the sound doctrine: — read the full passage →

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

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

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: — read the full passage →

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

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice: — read the full passage →

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

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

The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

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

and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.

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 every one that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

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

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

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

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

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

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

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

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband — read the full passage →

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

And Jehovah said unto Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up unto Jehovah before the sun, that the fierce anger of Jehovah may turn away from Israel. — read the full passage →

to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:

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

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband

And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. — read the full passage →

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

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.

When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath taken.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John; — read the full passage →

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives; — read the full passage →

if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.

neither give place to the devil.

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

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

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

For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that were wanting, and appoint elders in every city, as I gave thee charge; — read the full passage →

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

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

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives; — read the full passage →

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

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

and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.

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

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice:

but I say unto you, that every one who is angry with his brother shall be in danger of the judgment; and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council; and whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of the hell of fire.

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

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

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

But Jehovah said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for Jehovah seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but Jehovah looketh on the heart.

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye now are, if ye 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 hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.

Lo, children are a heritage of Jehovah; Andthe fruit of the womb ishisreward. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity: for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor wherein thou laborest under the sun.

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, shall we be saved by his life;

He that findeth his life shall lose it; and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

And the man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but for man there was not found a help meet for him. — read the full passage →

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.

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

Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.