Husband As Leader

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

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.

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

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

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 →

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.

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

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

of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,

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 →

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,

Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection,

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, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

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 →

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

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 →

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

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;

because the eyes of the Lord <FI>are<Fi> upon the righteous, and His ears--to their supplication, and the face of the Lord <FI>is<Fi> upon those doing evil;'

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath, — read the full passage →

for if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in his life.

And Jephthah goeth with the elders of Gilead, and the people set him over them for head and for captain, and Jephthah speaketh all his words before Jehovah in Mizpeh.

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 →

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

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.

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of <FI>their<Fi> husbands, lovers of <FI>their<Fi> children,

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

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

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

and if they wish to learn anything, at home their own husbands let them question, for it is a shame to women to speak in an assembly.

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.

The Visions of Isaiah son of Amoz, that he hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them, and the souls of those who have been beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus, and because of the word of God, and who did not bow before the beast, nor his image, and did not receive the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand, and they did live and reign with Christ the thousand years;

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 it is the time of the beginning of the judgment from the house of God, and if first from us, what the end of those disobedient to the good news of God?

each, according as he received a gift, to one another ministering it, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;

having beheld your pure behaviour in fear,

By faith Moses, having been born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw the child comely, and were not afraid of the decree of the king;

But we became gentle in your midst, as a nurse may cherish her own children,

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

But much more the members of the body which seem to be more infirm are necessary, — read the full passage →

for as the woman <FI>is<Fi> of the man, so also the man <FI>is<Fi> through the woman, and the all things <FI>are<Fi> of God.

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

as Sarah was obedient to Abraham, calling him `sir,' of whom ye did become daughters, doing good, and not fearing any terror.

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

Go, now, ye who are saying, `To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;'

and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'

for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls--being faint. — read the full passage →

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

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

far above all principality, and authority, and might, and lordship, and every name named, not only in this age, but also in the coming one;

for it hath been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the maid-servant, and one by the free-woman, — read the full passage →

Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law, having become for us a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed is every one who is hanging on a tree,'

And I entreat you, brethren, ye have known the household of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruit of Achaia, and to the ministration to the saints they did set themselves-- — read the full passage →

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

Then said Jesus to his disciples, `If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow me,

And there is a certain man of Ramathaim-Zophim, of the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name <FI>is<Fi> Elkanah, son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, and Ephrathite, — read the full passage →

and I have nourished thee there--for yet <FI>are<Fi> five years of famine--lest thou become poor, thou and thy household, and all that thou hast.

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

and righteous Lot, worn down by the conduct in lasciviousness of the impious, He did rescue,

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

who sometime disbelieved, when once the long-suffering of God did wait, in days of Noah--an ark being preparing--in which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water;

who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,

who being reviled--was not reviling again, suffering--was not threatening, and was committing himself to Him who is judging righteously,

The domestics! be subjecting yourselves in all fear to the masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the cross;

Be subject, then, to every human creation, because of the Lord, whether to a king, as the highest,

having your behaviour among the nations right, that in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, of the good works having beheld, they may glorify God in a day of inspection.

Wherefore, also, it is contained in the Writing: `Lo, I lay in Zion a chief corner-stone, choice, precious, and he who is believing on him may not be put to shame;' — read the full passage →

being begotten again, not out of seed corruptible, but incorruptible, through a word of God--living and remaining--to the age;

who through him do believe in God, who did raise out of the dead, and glory to him did give, so that your faith and hope may be in God.

having known that, not with corruptible things--silver or gold--were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers,

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the choice sojourners of the dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

Who <FI>is<Fi> wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom,

and in like manner also Rahab the harlot--was she not out of works declared righteous, having received the messengers, and by another way having sent forth?

Hearken, my brethren beloved, did not God choose the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the reign that He promised to those loving Him?

Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising <FI>us<Fi> , and we were reverencing <FI>them<Fi> ; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?

for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but <FI>one<Fi> tempted in all things in like manner--apart from sin;

Wherefore, having in Christ much boldness to command thee that which is fit-- — read the full passage →

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

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

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

And the masters! the same things do ye unto them, letting threatening alone, having known that also your Master is in the heavens, and acceptance of persons is not with him.

meekness, temperance: against such there is no law;

and if ye <FI>are<Fi> of Christ then of Abraham ye are seed, and according to promise--heirs.

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; — read the full passage →

not according to command do I speak, but because of the diligence of others, and of your love proving the genuineness,

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

but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, in the last trumpet, for it shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we--we shall be changed:

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 all things He did put under his feet, and, when one may say that all things have been subjected, <FI>it is<Fi> evident that He is excepted who did subject the all things to him,

so then, my brethren, coming together to eat, for one another wait ye;

for being free from all men, to all men I made myself servant, that the more I might gain; — read the full passage →

for he who <FI>is<Fi> in the Lord--having been called a servant--is the Lord's freedman: in like manner also he the freeman, having been called, is servant of Christ: