Manhood

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong! — read the full passage →

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.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

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

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

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.

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

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

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

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

But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

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

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

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →

Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy. — read the full passage →

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

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?

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

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

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

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance; — read the full passage →

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

For Adam was first formed, then Eve. — read the full passage →

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — 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;

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

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.

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 →

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the assemblies of the saints, — read the full passage →

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

Therefore select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. — read the full passage →

The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

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

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,