Manhood

Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. — read the full passage →

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.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.

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

But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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

Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.

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.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

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

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.

But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

for bodily exercise is profitable for a little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness.

Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you or be absent, I may hear of your state, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the gospel;

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity.

For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man: — read the full passage →

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works; — read the full passage →

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →

Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy. — read the full passage →

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

There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.

Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.

For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren:

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chasteneth not?

The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

And the God of all grace, who called you unto his eternal glory in Christ, after that ye have suffered a little while, shall himself perfect, establish, strengthen you.

Ye knowthis, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

but even as we have been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who proveth our hearts.

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

And not only so, but we also rejoice in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation worketh stedfastness; — read the full passage →

Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

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

casting all your anxiety upon him, because he careth for you.

till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John; — 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;

For consider him that hath endured such gainsaying of sinners against himself, that ye wax not weary, fainting in your souls.

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

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

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.

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 →

he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked.

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

Be ye 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 pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputing.

And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself.

Look ye out therefore, brethren, from among you seven men of good report, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not 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 quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Now there were at Antioch, in the church that wasthere, prophets and teachers, Barnabas, and Symeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen the foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. — read the full passage →

And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all the nations be blessed.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:

For I would have you know how greatly I strive for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

whatsoever ye do, work heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto men;

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;