Exhortation Husbands

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

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

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

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

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” — 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.”

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

For he who is mighty has done great things for me. Holy is his name.

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, “What are you looking for?” or, “Why do you speak with her?”

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.

The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.

She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.

A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.

and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on earth.”

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;

We love him, because he first loved us.

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire, but you prepared a body for me;

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, — read the full passage →

Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the house of Onesiphorus.

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.

For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love; — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus: — read the full passage →

My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.

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

Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant. — read the full passage →

But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Greet Persis, the beloved, who labored much in the Lord.

Greet Mary, who labored much for us.

I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the assembly that is at Cenchreae,

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

‘For in him we live, and move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

‘It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams.

Cretans and Arabians: we hear them speaking in our languages the mighty works of God!”

If you forgive anyone’s sins, they have been forgiven them. If you retain anyone’s sins, they have been retained.”

Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him, “Rabboni!” which is to say, “Teacher!” — read the full passage →

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

Therefore Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died. — read the full passage →

Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the midst, — read the full passage →

Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who speaks to you.”

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” — read the full passage →

John answered, “A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven. — read the full passage →

For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

and because he didn’t need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.

Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come.”

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

They remembered his words, — read the full passage →

A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him.

He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and gave to them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me.”

He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and gave to them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me.” — read the full passage →

He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury. — read the full passage →

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up, — read the full passage →

Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?”

Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bent over, and could in no way straighten herself up.

It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!” — read the full passage →

Soon afterwards, he went about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of the Kingdom of God. With him were the twelve, — read the full passage →

Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.”

Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.”

Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee’s house, she brought an alabaster jar of ointment. — read the full passage →

When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, “Don’t cry.”

Mary said, “Behold, the handmaid of the Lord; be it to me according to your word.” The angel departed from her.

Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, seeing I am a virgin?”

He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David,

to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.

One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together. Knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the greatest of all?” — read the full passage →

For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, “Talitha cumi!” which means, being interpreted, “Girl, I tell you, get up!”

He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be cured of your disease.”

having heard the things concerning Jesus, came up behind him in the crowd, and touched his clothes.

A certain woman, who had an issue of blood for twelve years, — read the full passage →

Jesus said to them, “Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can’t fast. — read the full passage →

Now Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick with a fever, and immediately they told him about her.

As they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, “Rejoice!” They came and took hold of his feet, and worshiped him.