Role Of The Husband

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.

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.

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

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

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

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.

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

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

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

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

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

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

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.”

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

For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

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

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.

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; — read the full passage →

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

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. — read the full passage →

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands: — read the full passage →

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.

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;

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; — read the full passage →

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

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

one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence; — read the full passage →

Adam wasn’t deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — 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 →

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

He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” — read the full passage →

When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. — read the full passage →

“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’ — read the full passage →

For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.

Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her: — read the full passage →

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

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

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

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things. — read the full passage →

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, — read the full passage →

But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

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. — read the full passage →

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says. — read the full passage →

What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.

For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

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

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, — read the full passage →

Jesus summoned them, and said to them, “You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. — read the full passage →

Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” — read the full passage →

A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike: — read the full passage →

Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways. — read the full passage →

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain. — read the full passage →

After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag; — read the full passage →

In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one. — read the full passage →

Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”

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

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

This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath, — read the full passage →

The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.