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Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.
For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands,
If we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us;
Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
And Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.
I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.
Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.
“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.
Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.”
It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
As Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.
But let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.
Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—
When they see your respectful and pure conduct.
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church?
He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive,
Not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.
The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task.
Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.
For Adam was formed first, then Eve;
Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness.
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says. If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.
The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says.
For man was not made from woman, but woman from man.
For if a wife will not cover her head, then she should cut her hair short. But since it is disgraceful for a wife to cut off her hair or shave her head, let her cover her head.
A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.
But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.
Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.
But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.
Return, O faithless children, declares the Lord; for I am your master; I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
My people—infants are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your guides mislead you and they have swallowed up the course of your paths.
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike;
A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.
“When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty. He shall be free at home one year to be happy with his wife whom he has taken.
When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!”
Jacob did so, and completed her week. Then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.
This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.
And Lamech took two wives. The name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.
Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, “So will Babylon the great city be thrown down with violence, and will be found no more;
Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon. And the dragon and his angels fought back, but he was defeated, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven. And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God. And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.
I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.
And we have something more sure, the prophetic word, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts,
Who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.
Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered. Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing. For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit; let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it. ...
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, ...
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct.
Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.
For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people.
Or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good.
Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme,
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.
And to which of the angels has he ever said, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”?
To be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well.
Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things.
I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve;
Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, ...
For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.
Knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,
Slaves, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.
Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
And every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
So that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,
And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.
Because we are members of his body.
For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,
In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,
In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
So that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
That he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—
But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.
On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come.
If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.
For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...
Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman;
That is why a wife ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.
For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man.
But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. For if a wife will not cover her head, then she should cut her hair short. But since it is disgraceful for a wife to cut off her hair or shave her head, let her cover her head. For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man. ...
And his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband.
Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. ...
To the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.
Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience.
For he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.
For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval,
Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. ...
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience.
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.
Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.
For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.
For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.
Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
After some days Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, and he sent for Paul and heard him speak about faith in Christ Jesus.
For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption,
God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
Saying, “We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man's blood upon us.”
When they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
And when Peter saw it he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we have made him walk?
To take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”
Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.”
You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.
This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.)
He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which means Christ).
But from now on the Son of Man shall be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”
Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Engage in business until I come.’
“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.
Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?
It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to stay awake.
And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her,
And the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.
‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,
And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.
But he answered, ‘Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.’
Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open to us.’
But the wise answered, saying, ‘Since there will not be enough for us and for you, go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves.’
And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’
Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps.
But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’
As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept.
But the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps.
For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them,
Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.