The Role Of Men

This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. — read the full passage →

And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.

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.

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; — read the full passage →

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

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. — read the full passage →

Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man. — read the full passage →

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance. — read the full passage →

And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord, when Ehud was dead. — read the full passage →

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

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, — read the full passage →

And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, — read the full passage →

After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. — read the full passage →

And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: — read the full passage →

And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Now know I that the Lord saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand. — read the full passage →

Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield. — read the full passage →

And David enquired at the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.

So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.

Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad: — read the full passage →

If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; — read the full passage →

When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man’s life) to employ them in the siege:

When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it. — read the full passage →

And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.

And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren’s heart faint as well as his heart.

And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.

When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the Lord thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. — read the full passage →

When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; — read the full passage →

But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.

Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls; — read the full passage →

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

And God spake all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. — read the full passage →

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. — read the full passage →