Manhood

Watch ye, stand in the faith; be men, be strong; — read the full passage →

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.

When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;

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

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

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;

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

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

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife--himself he doth love;

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness;

for the bodily exercise is unto little profit, and the piety is to all things profitable, a promise having of the life that now is, and of that which is coming;

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

and a woman I do not suffer to teach, nor to rule a husband, but to be in quietness,

Only worthily of the good news of the Christ conduct ye yourselves, that, whether having come and seen you, whether being absent I may hear of the things concerning you, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul, striving together for the faith of the good news,

let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;

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

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

and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works, — read the full passage →

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom, — read the full passage →

as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation; — read the full passage →

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, — read the full passage →

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;

because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;

Put to death, then, your members that <FI>are<Fi> upon the earth--whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry--

if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten?

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

And the God of all grace, who did call you to His age-during glory in Christ Jesus, having suffered a little, Himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle <FI>you<Fi> ;

So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves--

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,

Ministrants--let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,

And not only <FI>so<Fi> , but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance; — read the full passage →

Watch ye, stand in the faith; be men, be strong;

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

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

till we may all come to the unity of the faith and of the recognition of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature of the fulness of the Christ,

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — 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,

for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls--being faint.

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

Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

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,

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 →

He who is saying in him he doth remain, ought according as he walked also himself so to walk.

for God is not <FI>a God<Fi> of tumult, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints. — read the full passage →

Followers of me become ye, as I also <FI>am<Fi> of Christ.

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

I wish, therefore, that men pray in every place, lifting up kind hands, apart from anger and reasoning;

And he answering said, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of all thy soul, and out of all thy strength, and out of all thy understanding, and thy neighbour as thyself.'

look out, therefore, brethren, seven men of you who are well testified of, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may set over this necessity,

the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;

And there were certain in Antioch, in the assembly there, prophets and teachers; both Barnabas, and Simeon who is called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen also--Herod the tetrarch's foster-brother--and Saul; — read the full passage →

and the Writing having foreseen that by faith God doth declare righteous the nations did proclaim before the good news to Abraham--

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

sober, pure, keepers of <FI>their own<Fi> houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, — read the full passage →

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

and all, whatever ye may do--out of soul work--as to the Lord, and not to men,

for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,