Husbands Role

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.

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;

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.

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:

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 →

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:

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.

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 →

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 →

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 →

beholding your chaste behaviorcoupledwith fear.

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

Finally, be ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:

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.

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.

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 →

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 →

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;

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.

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