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Husbands Role
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Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.
But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.
Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.
Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:
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.
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.
Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.
The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
but I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;
But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.
Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →
There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →
above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:
Her children rise up, and call her blessed; Her husbandalso, and he praiseth her, saying:
In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives; — read the full passage →
And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her:
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.
Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; — read the full passage →
to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity: for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor wherein thou laborest under the sun.
And he arose from thence, and cometh into the borders of Judæa and beyond the Jordan: and multitudes come together unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again. — read the full passage →
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →
But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
But Peter and the apostles answered and said, We must obey God rather than men.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye now are, if ye do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →
and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church,
Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.
And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →
And the man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but for man there was not found a help meet for him. — read the full passage →
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself: — read the full passage →
But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband — read the full passage →
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. — read the full passage →
that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; — read the full passage →
And if a man prevail against him that is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
beholding your chaste behaviorcoupledwith fear.
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. — read the full passage →
Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →
Finally, be ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:
A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.
Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.
But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself: — read the full passage →
Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.
The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called, — read the full passage →
Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. — read the full passage →
A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →
with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.
For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands: — read the full passage →
Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;
But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband
But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them. — read the full passage →
Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:
and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.
There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.
Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise),
For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life;
But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness.
And whatsoever ye do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
and the two shall become one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh.
Whoseadorninglet it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel;
Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it.
For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife.
As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they that lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath taken.
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