Husband As Leader

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; — read the full passage →

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.

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

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

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

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

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; — read the full passage →

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

Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: — read the full passage →

Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; — read the full passage →

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

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; — read the full passage →

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

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

For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered all his words before the Lord in Mizpeh.

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; — read the full passage →

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.

By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment.

But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:

And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: — read the full passage →

For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.

For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.

For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:

Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. — read the full passage →

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

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

Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. — read the full passage →

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,) — read the full passage →

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

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim–zophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite: — read the full passage →

And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. — read the full passage →

And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:

Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;

Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. — read the full passage →

Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?

Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient, — read the full passage →

One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.

Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.

Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.

For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. — read the full passage →

For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord’s freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ’s servant.