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.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

“I am going the way of all the earth. You be strong therefore, and show yourself a 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.

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.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — read the full passage →

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

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 →

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” — 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 →

A wise man has great power; and a knowledgeable man increases strength; — read the full passage →

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

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

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 →

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

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;

A fool shows his annoyance the same day, but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.

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 →

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

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

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

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake 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.” — read the full passage →

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

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.” — read the full passage →

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 →

To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.

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.

To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life. — read the full passage →

The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”

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.

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.”

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.

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. — 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.”

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.

No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,

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

After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him. — read the full passage →

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.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

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

He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

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.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law. — read the full passage →

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 →

Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

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

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

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,