FAMILY

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• Genesis 2:23

  The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”

• Genesis 2:24

  Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

• Genesis 3:16

  To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

• Genesis 12:7

  Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.

• Genesis 12:8

  He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name.

• Genesis 13:3

  He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

• Genesis 13:4

  to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on Yahweh’s name.

• Genesis 16:5

  Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Yahweh judge between me and you.”

• Genesis 17:12

  He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring.

• Genesis 17:13

  He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

• Genesis 17:14

  The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.”

• Genesis 18:19

  For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

• Genesis 21:10

  Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”

• Genesis 21:11

  The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son.

• Genesis 27:4

  Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die.”

• Genesis 27:5

  Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.

• Genesis 27:6

  Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,

• Genesis 27:7

  ‘Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.’

• Genesis 27:8

  Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.

• Genesis 27:9

  Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good young goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.

• Genesis 27:10

  You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.”

• Genesis 27:11

  Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

• Genesis 27:12

  What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.”

• Genesis 27:13

  His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”

• Genesis 27:14

  He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.

• Genesis 27:15

  Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.

• Genesis 27:16

  She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.

• Genesis 27:17

  She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

• Genesis 27:18

  He came to his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”

• Genesis 27:19

  Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me.”

• Genesis 27:20

  Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” He said, “Because Yahweh your God gave me success.”

• Genesis 27:21

  Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”

• Genesis 27:22

  Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

• Genesis 27:23

  He didn’t recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau’s hands. So he blessed him.

• Genesis 27:24

  He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He said, “I am.”

• Genesis 27:25

  He said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless you.” He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.

• Genesis 27:26

  His father Isaac said to him, “Come near now, and kiss me, my son.”

• Genesis 27:27

  He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, “Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.

• Genesis 27:28

  God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

• Genesis 27:29

  Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”

• Genesis 27:30

  As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

• Genesis 27:31

  He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, “Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that your soul may bless me.”

• Genesis 27:32

  Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?” He said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”

• Genesis 27:33

  Isaac trembled violently, and said, “Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed.”

• Genesis 27:34

  When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, my father.”

• Genesis 27:35

  He said, “Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.”

• Genesis 27:36

  He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?”

• Genesis 27:37

  Isaac answered Esau, “Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants. I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then will I do for you, my son?”

• Genesis 27:38

  Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

• Genesis 27:39

  Isaac his father answered him, “Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.

• Genesis 27:40

  By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck.”

• Genesis 27:41

  Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

• Genesis 27:42

  The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.

• Genesis 27:43

  Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.

• Genesis 27:44

  Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away;

• Genesis 27:45

  until your brother’s anger turn away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?”

• Genesis 27:46

  Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?”

• Genesis 29:30

  He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

• Genesis 29:31

  Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

• Genesis 29:32

  Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me.”

• Genesis 29:33

  She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, “Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also.” She named him Simeon.

• Genesis 29:34

  She conceived again, and bore a son. Said, “Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore his name was called Levi.

• Genesis 30:1

  When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

• Genesis 30:2

  Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

• Genesis 30:3

  She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.”

• Genesis 30:4

  She gave him Bilhah her servant as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

• Genesis 30:5

  Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.

• Genesis 30:6

  Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore called she his name Dan.

• Genesis 30:7

  Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.

• Genesis 30:8

  Rachel said, “I have wrestled with my sister with mighty wrestlings, and have prevailed.” She named him Naphtali.

• Genesis 30:9

  When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

• Genesis 30:10

  Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a son.

• Genesis 30:11

  Leah said, “How fortunate!” She named him Gad.

• Genesis 30:12

  Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a second son.

• Genesis 30:13

  Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.

• Genesis 30:14

  Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

• Genesis 30:15

  She said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes, also?” Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”

• Genesis 30:16

  Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, “You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” He lay with her that night.

• Genesis 30:17

  God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.

• Genesis 30:18

  Leah said, “God has given me my hire, because I gave my servant to my husband.” She named him Issachar.

• Genesis 30:19

  Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.

• Genesis 30:20

  Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons.” She named him Zebulun.

• Genesis 30:21

  Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.

• Genesis 30:22

  God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

• Genesis 30:23

  She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”

• Genesis 30:24

  She named him Joseph, saying, “May Yahweh add another son to me.”

• Genesis 30:25

  When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.

• Genesis 35:2

  Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.

• Genesis 45:24

  So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, “See that you don’t quarrel on the way.”

• Genesis 50:17

  ‘You shall tell Joseph, “Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.”’ Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

• Genesis 50:18

  His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, “Behold, we are your servants.”

• Genesis 50:19

  Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for am I in the place of God?

• Genesis 50:20

  As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is today, to save many people alive.

• Genesis 50:21

  Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

• Exodus 4:25

  Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me.”

• Exodus 4:26

  So he let him alone. Then she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.

• Deuteronomy 4:9

  Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;

• Deuteronomy 4:10

  the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, “Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.”

• Deuteronomy 11:19

  You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

• Deuteronomy 11:20

  You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates;

• Deuteronomy 12:5

  But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and there you shall come.

• Deuteronomy 12:6

  There you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, your vows, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.

• Deuteronomy 12:7

  There you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.

• Deuteronomy 12:11

  then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.

• Deuteronomy 12:12

  You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

• Deuteronomy 14:26

  You shall trade the money for whatever your soul desires, for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.

• Deuteronomy 29:18

  lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;

• Joshua 24:15

  If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

• 1 Samuel 1:4

  When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions;

• 1 Samuel 1:5

  but to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.

• 1 Samuel 1:6

  Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.

• 1 Samuel 1:7

  As he did so year by year, when she went up to Yahweh’s house. Her rival provoked her; therefore she wept, and didn’t eat.

• 2 Samuel 6:16

  As Yahweh’s ark came into David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out through the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Yahweh; and she despised him in her heart.

• 2 Samuel 6:20

  Then David returned to bless his household. Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, “How glorious the king of Israel was today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of the servants of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!”

• 2 Samuel 6:21

  David said to Michal, “It was before Yahweh, who chose me above your father, and above all his house, to appoint me prince over the people of Yahweh, over Israel. Therefore I will celebrate before Yahweh.

• 2 Samuel 6:22

  I will be yet more vile than this, and will be base in my own sight. But of the servants of whom you have spoken, they will honor me.”

• 2 Samuel 6:23

  Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.

• Esther 1:10

  On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcass, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,

• Esther 1:11

  to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the royal crown, to show the people and the princes her beauty; for she was beautiful.

• Esther 1:12

  But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by the eunuchs. Therefore the king was very angry, and his anger burned in him.

• Esther 1:13

  Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times (for it was the king’s custom to consult those who knew law and judgment;

• Esther 1:14

  and the next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king’s face, and sat first in the kingdom),

• Esther 1:15

  “What shall we do to the queen Vashti according to law, because she has not done the bidding of the King Ahasuerus by the eunuchs?”

• Esther 1:16

  Memucan answered before the king and the princes, “Vashti the queen has not done wrong to just the king, but also to all the princes, and to all the people who are in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus.

• Esther 1:17

  For this deed of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to show contempt for their husbands, when it is reported, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she didn’t come.’

• Esther 1:18

  Today, the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen’s deed will tell all the king’s princes. This will cause much contempt and wrath.

• Esther 1:19

  “If it please the king, let a royal commandment go from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it cannot be altered, that Vashti may never again come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another who is better than she.

• Esther 1:20

  When the king’s decree which he shall make is published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give their husbands honor, both great and small.”

• Esther 1:21

  This advice pleased the king and the princes, and the king did according to the word of Memucan:

• Esther 1:22

  for he sent letters into all the king’s provinces, into every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, that every man should rule his own house, speaking in the language of his own people.

• Job 1:5

  It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.

• Psalms 101:2

  I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.

• Psalms 101:7

  He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.

• Psalms 128:3

  Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.

• Psalms 128:6

  Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel.

• Psalms 133:1

  A Song of Ascents. By David. See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

• Proverbs 11:22

  Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

• Proverbs 12:4

  A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

• Proverbs 14:1

  Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

• Proverbs 15:17

  Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.

• Proverbs 18:19

  A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city; and disputes are like the bars of a fortress.

• Proverbs 19:13

  A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.

• Proverbs 21:9

  It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.

• Proverbs 21:19

  It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

• Proverbs 25:24

  It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.

• Proverbs 27:15

  A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:

• Proverbs 27:16

  restraining her is like restraining the wind, or like grasping oil in his right hand.

• Proverbs 30:21

  “For three things the earth tremble, and under four, it can’t bear up:

• Proverbs 30:23

  for an unloved woman when she is married; and a servant who is heir to her mistress.

• Proverbs 31:27

  She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn’t eat the bread of idleness.

• Jeremiah 7:18

  The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

• Jeremiah 10:25

  Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name: for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

• Matthew 18:21

  Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?”

• Matthew 18:22

  Jesus said to him, “I don’t tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven.

• John 11:1

  Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.

• John 11:2

  It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.

• John 11:3

  The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”

• John 11:4

  But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”

• John 11:5

  Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

• Acts 10:1

  Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,

• Acts 10:2

  a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

• Acts 10:3

  At about the ninth hour of the day, he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God coming to him, and saying to him, “Cornelius!”

• Acts 10:4

  He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.

• Acts 10:5

  Now send men to Joppa, and get Simon, who is also called Peter.

• Acts 10:6

  He lodges with a tanner named Simon, whose house is by the seaside.

• Acts 10:33

  Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God to hear all things that have been commanded you by God.”

• Acts 10:44

  While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the word.

• Acts 10:47

  “Can anyone forbid these people from being baptized with water? They have received the Holy Spirit just like us.”

• Acts 10:48

  He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay some days.

• Acts 16:15

  When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay.” So she persuaded us.

• Acts 16:25

  But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

• Acts 16:26

  Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were loosened.

• Acts 16:27

  The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

• Acts 16:28

  But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, “Don’t harm yourself, for we are all here!”

• Acts 16:29

  He called for lights, sprang in, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,

• Acts 16:30

  brought them out, and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

• Acts 16:31

  They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

• Acts 16:32

  They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house.

• Acts 16:33

  He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.

• Acts 16:34

  He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.

• Acts 18:8

  Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.

• 1 Corinthians 1:16

  (I also baptized the household of Stephanas; besides them, I don’t know whether I baptized any other.)

• 1 Corinthians 7:10

  But to the married I command — not I, but the Lord — that the wife not leave her husband

• 1 Corinthians 11:3

  But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

• 1 Corinthians 11:7

  For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

• 1 Corinthians 11:8

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

• 1 Corinthians 11:9

  for man wasn’t created for the woman, but woman for the man.

• 1 Corinthians 16:19

  The assemblies of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla greet you much in the Lord, together with the assembly that is in their house.

• Ephesians 5:22

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

• Ephesians 5:23

  For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

• Ephesians 5:24

  But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

• Colossians 3:18

  Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

• 1 Timothy 3:2

  The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

• 1 Timothy 3:4

  one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

• 1 Timothy 3:5

  (but if a man doesn’t know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)

• 1 Timothy 3:12

  Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

• 2 Timothy 1:5

  having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

• 1 Peter 3:1

  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;

• 1 Peter 3:6

  as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.