Head Of Household

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.

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.

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.'

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

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,

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.

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

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

the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

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

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

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

Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection, — read the full passage →

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

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord; — read the full passage →

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.

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

and a woman I do not suffer to teach, nor to rule a husband, but to be in quietness,

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

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.

his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity,

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,

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.'

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? — read the full passage →

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

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,

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

even as ye have known, how each one of you, as a father his own children, we are exhorting you, and comforting, and testifying, — read the full passage →

and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him--head over all things to the assembly,

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

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.

and they said, `Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved--thou and thy house;'

the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;

And himself is the head of the body--the assembly--who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all <FI>things<Fi> --himself--first,

And the serpent hath been subtile above every beast of the field which Jehovah God hath made, and he saith unto the woman, `Is it true that God hath said, Ye do not eat of every tree of the garden?' — read the full passage →

Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith;

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

but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also <FI>are<Fi> the wives to their own husbands in everything.

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, — read the full passage →

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ;

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

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

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

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

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, — read the full passage →

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

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

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. — read the full passage →

for thus once also the holy women who did hope on God, were adorning themselves, being subject to their own husbands, — read the full passage →

I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

for I have known him, that he commandeth his children, and his house after him (and they have kept the way of Jehovah), to do righteousness and judgment, that Jehovah may bring on Abraham that which He hath spoken concerning him.'

`Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,

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. — read the full passage →

and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him--head over all things to the assembly, — read the full passage →

for Adam was first formed, then Eve,

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

his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity, — read the full passage →

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

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 →

And there was a certain man in Caesarea, by name Cornelius, a centurion from a band called Italian, — read the full passage →

And the heavens and the earth are completed, and all their host; — read the full passage →

and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.

Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection, — read the full passage →

And I call upon you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the same thing ye may all say, and there may not be divisions among you, and ye may be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment,

I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men: — read the full passage →

for a man is not of a woman, but a woman <FI>is<Fi> of a man, — read the full passage →

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 →

taking remembrance of the unfeigned faith that is in thee, that dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that also in thee.

or the riches of His goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, dost thou despise? --not knowing that the goodness of God doth lead thee to reformation!

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

if any one doth think to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things that I write to you--that of the Lord they are commands;

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

Her sons have risen up, and pronounce her happy, Her husband, and he praiseth her, — read the full passage →

we--we love him, because He--He first loved us;

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

And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;

Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this <FI>is<Fi> unprofitable to you.

And ye have said, `Wherefore?' Because Jehovah hath testified between thee And the wife of thy youth, That thou hast dealt treacherously against her, And she thy companion, and thy covenant-wife.

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 →

and she shall be saved through the child-bearing, if they remain in faith, and love, and sanctification, with sobriety.

The whole He hath made beautiful in its season; also, that knowledge He hath put in their heart without which man findeth not out the work that God hath done from the beginning even unto the end.

and if I delay, that thou mayest know how it behoveth <FI>thee<Fi> to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is an assembly of the living God--a pillar and foundation of the truth,

Jesus saith to them, `Did ye never read in the Writings, A stone that the builders disallowed, it became head of a corner; from the Lord hath this come to pass, and it is wonderful in our eyes.

Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy, — read the full passage →

Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith; — read the full passage →

`And a man who lieth with a male as one lieth with a woman; abomination both of them have done; they are certainly put to death; their blood <FI>is<Fi> on them.

Women--in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.

and Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, into transgression came,

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

Followers of me become ye, as I also <FI>am<Fi> of Christ. — 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--

and they spake to him the word of the Lord, and to all those in his household;

the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife.

Strength and honour <FI>are<Fi> her clothing, And she rejoiceth at a latter day.

for what, hast thou known, O wife, whether the husband thou shalt save? or what, hast thou known, O husband, whether the wife thou shalt save?

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;