The Man Being The Head Of The House

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,

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

Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth; — read the full passage →

and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

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

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

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,

Unto the woman He said, `Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband <FI>is<Fi> thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'

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.

(and if any one his own house <FI>how<Fi> to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

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

For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee; — read the full passage →

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.

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

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

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

and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God. — read the full passage →

Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith;

his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity, — read the full passage →

And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper--as his counterpart.'

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

Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth;

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.

Followers of me become ye, as I also <FI>am<Fi> of Christ. — read the full passage →

Words of Lemuel a king, a declaration that his mother taught him: — read the full passage →

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;

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him--head over all things to the assembly,

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

I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ;

And himself is the head of the body--the assembly--who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all <FI>things<Fi> --himself--first,

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

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, — read the full passage →

if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate--

for thus once also the holy women who did hope on God, were adorning themselves, being subject to their own husbands, — read the full passage →

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God. — read the full passage →

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

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

but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.

and I ask also thee, genuine yoke-fellow, be assisting those women who in the good news did strive along with me, with Clement also, and the others, my fellow-workers, whose names <FI>are<Fi> in the book of life.

and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him--head over all things to the assembly, — read the full passage →

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

but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also <FI>are<Fi> the wives to their own husbands in everything.

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

Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this <FI>is<Fi> unprofitable to you.

And the heavens and the earth are completed, and all their host; — read the full passage →

we--we love him, because He--He first loved us;

A virtuous woman <FI>is<Fi> a crown to her husband, And as rottenness in his bones <FI>is<Fi> one causing shame.

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

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 →

and at the same time also, they learn <FI>to be<Fi> idle, going about the houses; and not only idle, but also tattlers and busybodies, speaking the things they ought not;

and if I delay, that thou mayest know how it behoveth <FI>thee<Fi> to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is an assembly of the living God--a pillar and foundation of the truth,

and not holding the head, from which all the body--through the joints and bands gathering supply, and being knit together--may increase with the increase of God.

and every woman praying or prophesying with the head uncovered, doth dishonour her own head, for it is one and the same thing with her being shaven,

and if wrong in your eyes to serve Jehovah--choose for you to-day whom ye do serve; --whether the gods whom your fathers served, which <FI>are<Fi> beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorite in whose land ye are dwelling; and I and my house--we serve Jehovah.'

and ye are in him made full, who is the head of all principality and authority,

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed <FI>it<Fi> with the bathing of the water in the saying, — read the full passage →

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

and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God. — read the full passage →

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

taking remembrance of the unfeigned faith that is in thee, that dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that also in thee.

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

nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, that cause questions rather than the building up of God that is in faith: --

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God. — read the full passage →

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

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, — read the full passage →

if any one doth think to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things that I write to you--that of the Lord they are commands;

Every man praying or prophesying, having the head covered, doth dishonour his head,

Salute Priscilla and Aquilas, my fellow-workmen in Christ Jesus--

or the riches of His goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, dost thou despise? --not knowing that the goodness of God doth lead thee to reformation!

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

And having come near, Jesus spake to them, saying, `Given to me was all authority in heaven and on earth;

in good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;

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

and Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, into transgression came,

for a man is not of a woman, but a woman <FI>is<Fi> of a man,

The whole He hath made beautiful in its season; also, that knowledge He hath put in their heart without which man findeth not out the work that God hath done from the beginning even unto the end.

<FI> Whoso<Fi> hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy, — read the full passage →

Jesus saith to them, `Did ye never read in the Writings, A stone that the builders disallowed, it became head of a corner; from the Lord hath this come to pass, and it is wonderful in our eyes.

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

Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth; — read the full passage →

in like manner also the women, in becoming apparel, with modesty and sobriety to adorn themselves, not in braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or garments of great price, — read the full passage →

though I also have <FI>cause of<Fi> trust in flesh. If any other one doth think to have trust in flesh, I more;

and if any one doth think to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the assemblies of God.

Followers of me become ye, as I also <FI>am<Fi> of Christ. — read the full passage →

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> sons, A reward <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of the womb. — read the full passage →

`When a man taketh a new wife, he doth not go out into the host, and <FI>one<Fi> doth not pass over unto him for anything; free he is at his own house one year, and hath rejoiced his wife whom he hath taken.

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,

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat,

And I commend you to Phebe our sister--being a ministrant of the assembly that <FI>is<Fi> in Cenchrea-- — read the full passage →

Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth; — read the full passage →

because of this the woman ought to have <FI>a token of<Fi> authority upon the head, because of the messengers;

Her sons have risen up, and pronounce her happy, Her husband, and he praiseth her, — read the full passage →

and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.

for Adam was first formed, then Eve,

and ye <FI>are<Fi> Christ's, and Christ <FI>is<Fi> God's.