Husbands Role

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

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

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.

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

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

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

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his 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, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

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;

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

But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Wives, submit yourselves 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 be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

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

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

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

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

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

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.

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

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

Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

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 →

And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

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

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.

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

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

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judea by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again. — read the full passage →

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

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

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

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 God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

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

Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

A virtuous woman is a crown to 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 it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. — read the full passage →

Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: 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 for it; — read the full passage →

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. — read the full passage →

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: — read the full passage →

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. — read the full passage →

Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. — 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 →

And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.

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

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →

Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

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

And Adam 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.

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. — read the full passage →

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, — read the full passage →

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. — read the full passage →

Who can find a virtuous woman? 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 one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

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 →

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. — read the full passage →

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with 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, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)

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.

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

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

When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.