Leadership In The Home

and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity,

because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ <FI>is<Fi> head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

And thou--be speaking what doth become the sound teaching; — read the full passage →

his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity, — read the full passage →

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

neither as exercising lordship over the heritages, but patterns becoming of the flock,

Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this <FI>is<Fi> unprofitable to you.

And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper--as his counterpart.'

holding--according to the teaching--to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict;

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won, — read the full passage →

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won, — read the full passage →

for Adam was first formed, then Eve,

I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men: — read the full passage →

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →

A man there hath been in the land of Uz--Job his name--and that man hath been perfect and upright--both fearing God, and turning aside from evil. — read the full passage →

Is there not, if thou dost well, acceptance? and if thou dost not well, at the opening a sin-offering is crouching, and unto thee its desire, and thou rulest over it.'

aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers, — read the full passage →

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

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

And in these days, the disciples multiplying, there came a murmuring of the Hellenists at the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily ministration, — read the full passage →

Unto the woman He said, `Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband <FI>is<Fi> thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'

And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord; — read the full passage →

for a man is not of a woman, but a woman <FI>is<Fi> of a man, — read the full passage →

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.