Virtuous Wife

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

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;

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.

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

But say the things which fit sound doctrine, — read the full passage →

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

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

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

For man is not from woman, but woman from man; — 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 →

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.

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

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

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

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

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.

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,

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

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — read the full passage →

But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

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

So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to man. — read the full passage →

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”; — read the full passage →

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

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.

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. — 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.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.

There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

“Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”

He who sees me sees him who sent me.

He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”

For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. — read the full passage →

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.