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Leadership In The Home
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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.
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.
one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
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.
Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; — read the full passage →
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.
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.
But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
But speak thou the things which befit the sound doctrine: — read the full passage →
one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; — read the full passage →
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;
neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves ensamples to the flock.
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit to them: for they watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for this were unprofitable for you.
And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.
holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able both to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict the gainsayers.
The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →
Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it.
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 →
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 →
For Adam was first formed, then Eve;
I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men; — read the full passage →
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 there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: — read the full passage →
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and turned away from evil. — read the full passage →
If thou doest well, shall it not be lifted up? and if thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door; and unto thee shall be its desire; but do thou rule over it.
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 →
Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →
Now in these days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a murmuring of the Grecian Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. — read the full passage →
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.
And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →
For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man: — read the full passage →
And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
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