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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.
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.
One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
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.
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; — read the full passage →
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.
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
But speak thou the things which become 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 →
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;
Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, 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 when he is old, he will not depart from it.
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 →
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 →
For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; — read the full passage →
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.
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 eschewed evil. — read the full passage →
If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
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 →
Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →
And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians 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 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.
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 fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit 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 →
So 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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