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Submitting To Your Husband
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Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — 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; — read the full passage →
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
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.
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;
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. — read the full passage →
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
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; — read the full passage →
Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. — read the full passage →
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; — 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; — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.
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.
to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:
Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.
Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.
For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man:
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →
If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →
But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, even the fruit of righteousness.
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband — 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; — read the full passage →
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.
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.
And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ.
And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.
let the women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as also saith the law. — read the full passage →
And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;
let the women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as also saith the law.
Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.
And he went forward a little, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass away from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.
above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:
as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye now are, if ye do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.
Whoseadorninglet it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel;
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit to them: for they watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for this were unprofitable for you.
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — 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:
beholding your chaste behaviorcoupledwith fear.
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. — read the full passage →
For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →
Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God.
but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible apparel of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
(for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. — read the full passage →
nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks.
Every wise woman buildeth her house; But the foolish plucketh it down with her own hands.
Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him; — read the full passage →
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.
that he might present the church to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;
and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.
A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.
Finally, be ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:
Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts unto God.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →
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.
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband
saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →
A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
And when the king’s decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give to their husbands honor, both to great and small.
As many as I love, I reprove and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Servants, bein subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →
And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to the which also ye were called in one body; and be ye thankful.
forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye:
If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
And it came to pass when Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judæa beyond the Jordan; — read the full passage →
Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise;
and the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets;
but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.
We love, because he first loved us.
Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him. — read the full passage →
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and for ever. Amen.
Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
But all things when they are reproved are made manifest by the light: for everything that is made manifest is light.
Judge not, that ye be not judged. — read the full passage →
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 →
Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away.
but sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord: being ready always to give answer to every man that asketh you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, yet with meekness and fear:
whatsoever ye do, work heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto men;
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