Leadership In The Home

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.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

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

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

But say the things which fit sound doctrine, — read the full passage →

one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence; — read the full passage →

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

neither as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

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.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one 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. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil. — read the full passage →

If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; — read the full passage →

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service. — read the full passage →

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

For man is not from woman, but woman from man; — read the full passage →

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.