Headship

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.

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,

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

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

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;

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

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

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

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

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.

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of 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.

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

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

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in 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 God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

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

and ye are in him made full, who is the head of all principality and authority,

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

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.'

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

and not holding the head, from which all the body--through the joints and bands gathering supply, and being knit together--may increase with the increase of God.

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

for a man, indeed, ought not to cover the head, being the image and glory of God, and a woman is the glory of a man,

And I praise you, brethren, that in all things ye remember me, and according as I did deliver to you, the deliverances ye keep, — read the full passage →

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

In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;

because of this the woman ought to have <FI>a token of<Fi> authority upon the head, because of the messengers;

and the man saith, `This <FI>is<Fi> the <FI>proper<Fi> step! bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh!' for this it is called Woman, for from a man hath this been taken;

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.

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

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

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

for a man is not of a woman, but a woman <FI>is<Fi> of a man,

and every woman praying or prophesying with the head uncovered, doth dishonour her own head, for it is one and the same thing with her being shaven,

because I have come down out of the heaven, not that I may do my will, but the will of Him who sent me.

And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth-- — 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 →

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

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

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

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

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,

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

and he who is prophesying to men doth speak edification, and exhortation, and comfort;

Every man praying or prophesying, having the head covered, doth dishonour his head,

because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin;

A virtuous woman <FI>is<Fi> a crown to her husband, And as rottenness in his bones <FI>is<Fi> one causing shame.

And God saith, `Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.' — 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,

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

let no one beguile you of your prize, delighting in humble-mindedness and <FI>in<Fi> worship of the messengers, intruding into the things he hath not seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh, — read the full passage →

because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin; — read the full passage →

Having been declared righteous, then, by faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

I and the Father are one.'

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 →

And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'

Be mindful of those leading you, who did speak to you the word of God, whose faith--considering the issue of the behaviour--be imitating,

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

And the man calleth names to all the cattle, and to fowl of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; and to man hath not been found an helper--as his counterpart.

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 →

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

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

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

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

So, then, as through one offence to all men <FI>it is<Fi> to condemnation, so also through one declaration of `Righteous' <FI>it is<Fi> to all men to justification of life;

`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you--an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.

Be not afraid, for with thee I <FI>am<Fi> , Look not around, for I <FI>am<Fi> thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

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

Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it <FI>are<Fi> the outgoings of life.

And Jehovah God calleth unto the man, and saith to him, `Where <FI>art<Fi> thou?'

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

and here, indeed, men who die do receive tithes, and there <FI>he<Fi> , who is testified to that he was living, — 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;

and, confessedly, great is the secret of piety--God was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by messengers, preached among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory!

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,

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

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

in like manner also the women, in becoming apparel, with modesty and sobriety to adorn themselves, not in braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or garments of great price, — read the full passage →

when the Christ--our life--may be manifested, then also we with him shall be manifested in glory.

for ye did die, and your life hath been hid with the Christ in God;

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, — read the full passage →

who is the image of the invisible God, first-born of all creation, — read the full passage →

For, let this mind be in you that <FI>is<Fi> also in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves--

If, then, any exhortation <FI>is<Fi> in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies, — read the full passage →

this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;

because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones;

and when the all things may be subjected to him, then the Son also himself shall be subject to Him, who did subject to him the all things, that God may be the all in all.

for even as in Adam all die, so also in the Christ all shall be made alive,

for a man also was not created because of the woman, but a woman because of the man;

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

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

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;

On that day hath the king Ahasuerus given to Esther the queen the house of Haman, adversary of the Jews, and Mordecai hath come in before the king, for Esther hath declared what he <FI>is<Fi> to her, — read the full passage →

Is there not, if thou dost well, acceptance? and if thou dost not well, at the opening a sin-offering is crouching, and unto thee its desire, and thou rulest over it.'