Husband As Leader

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — 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 assembly, and gave himself up for it;

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

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

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

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

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

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

For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands: — read the full passage →

But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.

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.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

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

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

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

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 the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath, — 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, we will be saved by his life.

Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them: and Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh in Mizpah.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

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

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

If they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a woman to chatter in the assembly.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you 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 →

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived, and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

seeing your pure behavior in fear.

By faith, Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment.

But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,

No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary. — read the full passage →

For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.

For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls. — read the full passage →

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

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

far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the free woman. — read the full passage →

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”

Now I beg you, brothers (you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to serve the saints), — read the full passage →

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

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to 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 the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite: — read the full passage →

There I will nourish you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have.”’

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

and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

Who, when he was cursed, didn’t curse back. When he suffered, didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;

Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.

Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen, and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed.” — read the full passage →

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

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.

Therefore though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate, — read the full passage →

one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to promise.

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. — read the full passage →

I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the 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 trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.

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.

For, “He put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when he says, “All things are put in subjection”, it is evident that he is excepted who subjected all things to him.

Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more. — read the full passage →

For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.