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What Does The Bible Say About A Man Being A Leader?

What Does The Bible Say About A Man Being A Leader

What Does The Bible Say About A Man Being A Leader? It is without a doubt that there are many Bible verses about man’s leadership worth knowing by all Christians. The world offers lots of confusing points as to what being a man is. Many people think, believe and say that being a man requires grit determination and a working knowledge of weaponry. Others view manliness as strength, power, authority, protection, provision, and leadership. In the same light, others believe that manliness is all about getting in touch with one’s feelings, being sensitive, caring, protecting, and providing for the less privileged. Likewise, others when talking of manliness would include a good work ethic, riches, physical stature, wealth, and/or sexual prowess. But can these things truly describe manliness or reveal the man’s authority? This is the question we’ll be answering.

In order to understand a man’s authority, we do not need to look any further than the life of our Lord and Savior Jesus Chris. As the Son of Man, Jesus is the essence of manhood. In fact, His life and teachings reveal man’s authority. Behold, Jesus Christ was full of the Holy Spirit and lived on full obedience and complete dependence on the Word of God. We can say of Christ in the human nature that He was a Man after God’s Heart. He came to the Earth not to fulfill his will but that of God the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth. By so doing, Jesus Christ fully reflected the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23). Hence, the life of a true man of God should also reflect these works of the Spirit.

What Does The Bible Say About A Man Being A Leader?

Ephesians 5:23 says, “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.”
Also, 1 Timothy 2:11-15 says, “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. For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.
In the Christian light, a man is expected to exercise self-control, patience, love, kindness, generosity, and wisdom in guiding his household in the ways of God Almighty. By so doing, he reflects Christ in his household and God’s will is accomplished.

Like Jesus of Nazareth, a true man is obedient to the Father’s Will and is about His Father’s business (Hebrews 10:19). In Jesus Christ is righteousness for He lived a sinless life. And because we have all sinned and fallen short of God’s glory, it is our duty to seek the light that comes from no other but Jesus Christ (Romans 3:23 and John 14:6). It is in this light that the godly man will flee away from sin and strive for a righteous life through Christ. Through the Power of the Holy Spirit, the godly man seeks to keep God’s Law as well as dwell in God’s will. With a grit determination, he steps forward to accomplish God’s will regardless of what it might cost him (Isaiah 50:7). Such a man endures persecution, opposition, hardship, and suffering for Christ’s sake without losing heart (Hebrews 12:3).

What The Scriptures Say About Man’s Leadership

A godly man is a man who understands God’s Word and whose leadership is directed to the accomplishment of God’s will. He makes use of the Scripture to overcome temptation (Matthew 4:1-10). Joyfully praying without ceasing (1 Thessalonians 5:17), he is considered a man of prayer (Mark 1:35). Such is the man of love and sacrifice as we can read from John 13:1.
1 Corinthians 16:13-14 says, “Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong. Do everything in love.” With this verse in mind, we can say without a doubt that a true man is vigilant against sin, danger, and is faithful to the Truth. Also, he is brave in the face of opposition, persistent in carrying his cross to follow Jesus Christ on a daily basis, and, above all, loving in all things.

We can find a good description of a godly man by reading the Bible’s qualifications for elders and deacons in 1 Timothy 3:2-4; 7 that says, “Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own family well. . . . He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the devil’s trap.”

According to 1 Corinthians 13:11, a man worth making use of his authority is a person who has “put away childish things.” He knows what is right and with confidence, he stands for it without fear of persecution. Such is one who loves God with all his heart, spirit, and soul (Matthew 22:37). Likewise, he also loves his neighbor as he loves himself (Matthew 22:39).

What The Bible Says About The Purpose Of Man (Humanity)

The Bible clearly tells us that we were created by God in order to bring Him glory (Genesis 1:25-31). Thus, the ultimate purpose of man (humanity) is to glorify God (Isaiah 43:7). As His creatures, it is our duty to know Him and make Him known by glorifying Him with our lives. The question now is: how do we glorify God?

Ways To Glorify God

1. Worship Him with gladness and thanksgiving (Psalms 100:2-4)

One of the ways to glorify God, the Father of Creation, is to worship Him with gladness and thanksgiving. That is, we are to acknowledge Him as our creator and worship Him as such.
In support of this point, Psalms 100:2-4 says, “Serve the LORD with gladness!
Come into his presence with singing!
Know that the LORD, he is God!
It is he who made us, and we are his;
we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
and his courts with praise!
Give thanks to him; bless his name!

2. Honoring and serving Him with our lives and decisions (1 Samuel 12:24)

Honoring and serving God with our lives and decisions is one of the greatest ways to glorify Him for Who He Is. The ability to do this comes from the love in our heart for Who He Is as we can read from 1 Samuel 12:24, “Only fear the LORD and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider what great things he has done for you.” Always remember that we were created in God’s image and as such, we fulfill our life purpose through a life devoted to Him (Genesis 1:26–27). After a significant period of living a life of self-indulgence, King Solomon came to the conclusion that living for oneself was useless. With this conclusion, he pointed to the fact that the ultimate purpose of man is to live a life of obedience to God (Ecclesiastes 12:13–14).

Humans are naturally sinful. It takes the sin cleansing ability of Jesus Christ for us to be found righteous in the presence of God. Thanks to Jesus Christ’s sacrifice of His own Life on the Cross at Calvary, we have a reconciled relationship with God. That is, there is no longer a sin barrier between those who are in Christ and God. When we submit our lives to Christ, we are able to glorify God in truth and in spirit. This submission comes through Sincere Repentance and obedience to the Key Teachings Of Jesus Christ. In living our lives by following the example of Jesus Christ, we are glorifying Him as well as glorying the One who sent Him (2 Corinthians 3:1–6).

Understanding Your Blessings As A Child Of God

In the New Testament, Apostle Paul affirms that God “had set me apart before I was born” (see Galatians 1:15–16). Whatever you do, always remember that God’s plans and purposes for our lives will always result in His glory. In support of this, 1 Corinthians 10:31 says, “So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.” Today, we have the ability to glorify God because He first crowned us with glory and honor (Psalms 8:4-6 and Hebrews 2:6-8). In addition to this glory and honor, God gave us dominion over the Earth (Genesis 1:28–29). By so doing, God conferred to us the task of stewarding the earth to the best of our ability and above all for the sake of His Glory.

Five Themes Of Biblical Manhood

1. A man knows the importance of self-control (Titus 2:11-12)

Titus 2:11-12 says, For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age…”

A true man values self-control. That is, he controls his emotions and passions. Whether single or married, a real man tames his passions. As a mature man, he doesn’t abuse women or children but rather protects and provides for them. Knowing where he is coming from and where he is going, he keeps his hands off a woman who is not his wife. He treats his wife with love, respect, and dignity. He teaches his household the importance of loving God and obeying His commands. Also, he protects a single woman’s virginity and innocence. He keeps his eyes off pornographic images and is not defined by his exploits below the waist. Such a man is a God-fearing man. He is a man with a heart and a conscience.

For more info, read our Bible Verses About Self Control.

2. A man provides for his household (1 Timothy 5:8)

1 Timothy 5:8 reads, “But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.” It is without a doubt that any man who does not work and provide for his household ends up with a sense of shameful feeling. That is his self-worth sinks. As a man, you must embrace work. You should learn what it takes to obtain a job, work hard, maintain high performance, and be able to meet the needs of your household. Behold, a man who is unable to keep a job, who is always moving from one job to another, or who refuses to willingly assume his family responsibilities is actually putting his household in a state of insecurity. A responsible man is one who provides for his family -emotionally, spiritually, physically, financially, and educationally.

3. A man protects his family (Proverbs 4:10-15)

Here, we’ll borrow an expression from Wayne Grudem and John Piper on the essence of masculinity: When you are lying in bed with your wife and suddenly hear the sound of a kitchen window being opened at 3 a.m., do you shake her awake and say, “The last time this occurred, I was the one who took our baseball bat and investigated to see if someone was breaking into our house. Now it’s your turn, Sweetheart. Here’s the bat!”? Obviously No! However, being a protector to your household calls for far more than just ensuring physical safety. Proverbs 4:10-15 portrays a father who protects his son by passing on wisdom, teaching him the ways of God Almighty, teaching him to reject the lies and temptations of the world, and helping him build godly character. This father is protecting even the generation to come as this wisdom will be passed on.

For more info read What The Bible Says About Fathers.

4. A man serves and leads his family (Ephesians 5:23)

While the world quickly sees serving and leading as contradictions, the Bible clearly tells us that they are inseparable. In Ephesians 5:23 where Apostle Paul says, “the husband is the head of the wife,” he quickly dismisses any notions that this leadership allows for selfish male dominance. Apostle Paul does this by completing the sentence with “as Christ also is the head of the church.” The passage goes on to say in verse 25 that husbands should love their wives “just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her” This definition of leadership is quite contrary to that offered by the world. We are trying to say here that a man is called to be a servant-leader-to take responsibility for his wife and children as he puts their needs ahead of his. Also, a man is invited to demonstrate selfless, and sacrificial love.

5. A man follows God’s design for true masculinity (Micah 6:8)

In support of this point, let’s read from Micah 6:8 – “He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” The core or essence of every man’s life should be his relationship with God the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven, and Earth. A man who goes after God’s heart knows the importance of embracing his responsibilities.

What The Scriptures Say About Christian Husbands Leading

The Bible tells us that God loves His daughters and the children that they bear. Whenever God gives one of His daughters to a man, He desires that the man love, care, protect, and provide for her. In no way does the Scripture teach that women and children be considered second rate or inferior to men. God finds them so special that He asks for special care to be given the; a care that only Biblically-based men can provide. It is without doubt that women are quite capable of taking care of themselves. However, God created men and women to be physically different. And due to the physical nature and strength that God gave men, He has charged them with the provision and protection of their families. However, the physical nature and strength of a man are to be managed with grace and gentleness.

God did not create men to lord over women nor did He create women to simply sit back and wait on men. Rather, He made them to complement each other through a healthy companionship. Being a good companion is one of the roles of a husband in the Bible. In fact, the role of the husband in the Bible is fulfilled through the heart of companionship.

It is in this light that Ephesians 5:25-33 says, “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church—for we are members of his body. ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’ This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.”

What Does The Bible Say About A Man Being A Leader?

Hebrews 2:7 – “You made him for a little while lower than the angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor,

Genesis 1:26Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Genesis 1:27 – “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”

Job 4:17 – “‘Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?

Isaiah 43:7 – “Everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”

Proverbs 20:27 – “The spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all his innermost parts.

Psalm 8:6-8 – “You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.”

Group 1 – What Does The Bible Say About A Man Being A Leader?

Ephesians 5:25-33 – “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 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. 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, …

1 Peter 3:7 – “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.

1 Corinthians 7:1-7 – “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. …”

Group 2 – What Does The Bible Say About A Man Being A Leader?

Ephesians 5:22 – “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.”

Ephesians 5:23 – “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.”

1 Timothy 3:1-16 – “The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s church? ...”

1 Timothy 2:11-15 – “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. For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

1 Peter 3:1 – “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,”

Ephesians 5:25 – “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,”

1 Peter 3:7 – “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.

Group 3 – What Does The Bible Say About A Man Being A Leader?

1 Timothy 5:8 – “But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.”

Genesis 2:7 – “Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Psalm 33:13-15 – “The Lord looks down from heaven; he sees all the children of man; from where he sits enthroned he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth, he who fashions the hearts of them all and observes all their deeds.

Psalm 8:4 – “What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?

Psalm 144:4 – “Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.”

Psalm 100:3 – “Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.”

James 2:26 – “For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.”

Group 4 – What Does The Bible Say About A Man Being A Leader?

Psalm 8:5 – “Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.

Psalm 139:14 – “I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.”

Psalm 8:3 – “When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,”

Hebrews 9:27 – “And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,”

Job 4:19 – “How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.”

Psalm 138:8 – “The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.”

Psalm 144:3 – “O Lord, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him?

Psalm 119:73 – “Your hands have made and fashioned me; give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.”

Group 5 – What Does The Bible Say About A Man Being A Leader?

John 4:24 – “God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Job 15:14 – “What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?

Job 31:15 – “Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

Job 14:1-5 – “Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble. He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not. And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you? Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one. Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,

Ecclesiastes 12:7 – “And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 1:8 – “All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.”

Group 6 – What Does The Bible Say About A Man Being A Leader?

1 Corinthians 2:11 – “For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.”

James 3:9 – “With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.”

Job 10:9 – “Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust?

1 Corinthians 15:49 – “Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.”

Group 7 – What Does The Bible Say About A Man Being A Leader?

John 3:3-8Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ …

Hebrews 4:12 – “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.”

Romans 7:14-25 – “For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. ...”

Group 8 – What Does The Bible Say About A Man Being A Leader?

Ecclesiastes 2:14 – “The wise person has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that the same event happens to all of them.”

Job 33:4 – “The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.”

Ecclesiastes 3:21 – “Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth?

Isaiah 64:8 – “But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.

Job 32:8 – “But it is the spirit in man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand.

Job 31:13-15 – “If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me, what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him? Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

Group 9 – What Does The Bible Say About A Man Being A Leader?

Job 10:2 – “I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.”

Job 25:4-6 – “How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure? Behold, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure in his eyes; how much less man, who is a maggot, and the son of man, who is a worm!

1 Corinthians 11:7 – “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.”

Genesis 1:28And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

1 Corinthians 6:20 – “For you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.”

Malachi 2:10 – “Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

Group 10 – What Does The Bible Say About A Man Being A Leader?

Isaiah 42:5 – “Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it:

Proverbs 16:4 – “The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.”

Acts 7:59And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

Job 38:4 – “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.”

Genesis 9:6 – “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.

Job 35:10 – “But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,”

Job 10:8 – “Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether.

Ecclesiastes 7:29 – “See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”

Group 11 – What Does The Bible Say About A Man Being A Leader?

Job 4:18-21 – “Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error; how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth. Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it. Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?’”

Genesis 9:3 – “Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.”

Genesis 5:2 – “Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.”

Hebrews 2:8 – “Putting everything in subjection under his feet.” Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him.”

1 Thessalonians 5:23 – “Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Group 12 – What Does The Bible Say About A Man Being A Leader?

2 Corinthians 5:1-9 – “For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked. For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. …

Galatians 3:28 – “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.”

2 Corinthians 4:16 – “So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.”

2 Corinthians 4:6 – “For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”

Group 13 – What Does The Bible Say About A Man Being A Leader?

1 Corinthians 15:22 – “For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

Luke 23:46 – “Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.

1 Corinthians 15:48 – “As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven.

1 Corinthians 15:21 – “For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.”

Mark 10:6 – “But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’

Acts 17:26 – “And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,

Matthew 10:28 – “And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.”

Group 14 – What Does The Bible Say About A Man Being A Leader?

Zechariah 12:1 – “The burden of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus declares the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him:

Matthew 23:8 – “But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers.”

Daniel 2:38 – “And into whose hand he has given, wherever they dwell, the children of man, the beasts of the field, and the birds of the heavens, making you rule over them all—you are the head of gold.”

Jeremiah 28:14 – “For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put upon the neck of all these nations an iron yoke to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they shall serve him, for I have given to him even the beasts of the field.’”

Jeremiah 27:5 – “It is I who by my great power and my outstretched arm have made the earth, with the men and animals that are on the earth, and I give it to whomever it seems right to me.”

Group 15 – What Does The Bible Say On A Man Being A Leader?

Ecclesiastes 3:20 – “All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return.

Jeremiah 27:6 – “Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant, and I have given him also the beasts of the field to serve him.”

Isaiah 45:12 – “I made the earth and created man on it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host.”

Psalm 31:5 – “Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God.”

Job 38:13 – “That it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?

Isaiah 17:7 – “In that day man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel.”

Group 16 – What Does The Bible Say On A Man Being A Leader?

1 Corinthians 14:14 – “For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful.”

Job 4:18 – “Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error;

Job 35:2-8 – “Do you think this to be just? Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’ that you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’ I will answer you and your friends with you. Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you. If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him? ...”

Ephesians 4:4 – “There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—

Job 10:3 – “Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the designs of the wicked?

Romans 2:29 – “But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God.”

Job 38:12 – “Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place,

Group 17 – What Does The Bible Say On A Man Being A Leader?

1 Corinthians 7:34 – “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.”

Mark 10:42-44And Jesus called them to him and said to them, “You know that those who are considered rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all.”

Matthew 23:11 – “The greatest among you shall be your servant.”

Matthew 4:4But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Romans 1:9 – “For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you.”

Isaiah 26:9 – “My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.”

Group 18 – What Does The Bible Say On A Man Being A Leader?

Ecclesiastes 2:15 – “Then I said in my heart, “What happens to the fool will happen to me also. Why then have I been so very wise?” And I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

Ephesians 6:1-4 – “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”

Matthew 20:25-28But Jesus called them to him and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave, even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

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What Does The Bible Say About Man’s Authority?

What Does The Bible Say About Man’s Authority? It is without a doubt that there are many Bible verses about man’s authority worth knowing by all Christians. The world offers lots of confusing points as to what being a man is. Many people think, believe and say that being a man requires grit determination and a working knowledge of weaponry. Others view manliness as strength, power, authority, protection, provision, and leadership. In the same light, others believe that manliness is all about getting in touch with one’s feelings, being sensitive, caring, protecting, and providing for the less privileged. Likewise, others when talking of manliness would include a good work ethic, riches, physical stature, wealth, and/or sexual prowess. But can these things truly describe manliness or reveal the man’s authority? This is the question we’ll be answering.

In order to understand a man’s authority, we do not need to look any further than the life of our Lord and Savior Jesus Chris. As the Son of Man, Jesus is the essence of manhood. In fact, His life and teachings reveal man’s authority. Behold, Jesus Christ was full of the Holy Spirit and lived on full obedience and complete dependence on the Word of God. We can say of Christ in the human nature that He was a Man after God’s Heart. He came to the Earth not to fulfill his will but that of God the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth. By so doing, Jesus Christ fully reflected the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23). Hence, the life of a true man of God should also reflect these works of the Spirit.

What Does The Bible Say About Man’s Authority?

Ephesians 5:23 says, “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.”
Also, 1 Timothy 2:11-15 says, “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. For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.
In the Christian light, a man is expected to exercise self-control, patience, love, kindness, generosity, and wisdom in guiding his household in the ways of God Almighty. By so doing, he reflects Christ in his household and God’s will is accomplished.

Like Jesus of Nazareth, a true man is obedient to the Father’s Will and is about His Father’s business (Hebrews 10:19). In Jesus Christ is righteousness for He lived a sinless life. And because we have all sinned and fallen short of God’s glory, it is our duty to seek the light that comes from no other but Jesus Christ (Romans 3:23 and John 14:6). It is in this light that the godly man will flee away from sin and strive for a righteous life through Christ. Through the Power of the Holy Spirit, the godly man seeks to keep God’s Law as well as dwell in God’s will. With a grit determination, he steps forward to accomplish God’s will regardless of what it might cost him (Isaiah 50:7). Such a man endures persecution, opposition, hardship, and suffering for Christ’s sake without losing heart (Hebrews 12:3).

What The Scriptures Say About Man’s Authority

A godly man is a man who understands God’s Word and whose authority is directed to the accomplishment of God’s will. He makes use of the Scripture to overcome temptation (Matthew 4:1-10). Joyfully praying without ceasing (1 Thessalonians 5:17), he is considered a man of prayer (Mark 1:35). Such is the man of love and sacrifice as we can read from John 13:1.
1 Corinthians 16:13-14 says, “Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong. Do everything in love.” With this verse in mind, we can say without a doubt that a true man is vigilant against sin, danger, and is faithful to the Truth. Also, he is brave in the face of opposition, persistent in carrying his cross to follow Jesus Christ on a daily basis, and, above all, loving in all things.

We can find a good description of a godly man by reading the Bible’s qualifications for elders and deacons in 1 Timothy 3:2-4; 7 that says, “Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own family well. . . . He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the devil’s trap.”

According to 1 Corinthians 13:11, a man worth making use of his authority is a person who has “put away childish things.” He knows what is right and with confidence, he stands for it without fear of persecution. Such is one who loves God with all his heart, spirit, and soul (Matthew 22:37). Likewise, he also loves his neighbor as he loves himself (Matthew 22:39).

What The Bible Says About The Purpose Of Man (Humanity)

The Bible clearly tells us that we were created by God in order to bring Him glory (Genesis 1:25-31). Thus, the ultimate purpose of man (humanity) is to glorify God (Isaiah 43:7). As His creatures, it is our duty to know Him and make Him known by glorifying Him with our lives. The question now is: how do we glorify God?

Ways To Glorify God

1. Worship Him with gladness and thanksgiving (Psalms 100:2-4)

One of the ways to glorify God, the Father of Creation, is to worship Him with gladness and thanksgiving. That is, we are to acknowledge Him as our creator and worship Him as such.
In support of this point, Psalms 100:2-4 says, “Serve the LORD with gladness!
Come into his presence with singing!
Know that the LORD, he is God!
It is he who made us, and we are his;
we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
and his courts with praise!
Give thanks to him; bless his name!

2. Honoring and serving Him with our lives and decisions (1 Samuel 12:24)

Honoring and serving God with our lives and decisions is one of the greatest ways to glorify Him for Who He Is. The ability to do this comes from the love in our heart for Who He Is as we can read from 1 Samuel 12:24, “Only fear the LORD and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider what great things he has done for you.” Always remember that we were created in God’s image and as such, we fulfill our life purpose through a life devoted to Him (Genesis 1:26–27). After a significant period of living a life of self-indulgence, King Solomon came to the conclusion that living for oneself was useless. With this conclusion, he pointed to the fact that the ultimate purpose of man is to live a life of obedience to God (Ecclesiastes 12:13–14).

Humans are naturally sinful. It takes the sin cleansing ability of Jesus Christ for us to be found righteous in the presence of God. Thanks to Jesus Christ’s sacrifice of His own Life on the Cross at Calvary, we have a reconciled relationship with God. That is, there is no longer a sin barrier between those who are in Christ and God. When we submit our lives to Christ, we are able to glorify God in truth and in spirit. This submission comes through Sincere Repentance and obedience to the Key Teachings Of Jesus Christ. In living our lives by following the example of Jesus Christ, we are glorifying Him as well as glorying the One who sent Him (2 Corinthians 3:1–6).

Understanding Your Blessings As A Child Of God

In the New Testament, Apostle Paul affirms that God “had set me apart before I was born” (see Galatians 1:15–16). Whatever you do, always remember that God’s plans and purposes for our lives will always result in His glory. In support of this, 1 Corinthians 10:31 says, “So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.” Today, we have the ability to glorify God because He first crowned us with glory and honor (Psalms 8:4-6 and Hebrews 2:6-8). In addition to this glory and honor, God gave us dominion over the Earth (Genesis 1:28–29). By so doing, God conferred to us the task of stewarding the earth to the best of our ability and above all for the sake of His Glory.

Five Themes Of Biblical Manhood

1. A man knows the importance of self-control (Titus 2:11-12)

Titus 2:11-12 says, For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age…”

A true man values self-control. That is, he controls his emotions and passions. Whether single or married, a real man tames his passions. As a mature man, he doesn’t abuse women or children but rather protects and provides for them. Knowing where he is coming from and where he is going, he keeps his hands off a woman who is not his wife. He treats his wife with love, respect, and dignity. He teaches his household the importance of loving God and obeying His commands. Also, he protects a single woman’s virginity and innocence. He keeps his eyes off pornographic images and is not defined by his exploits below the waist. Such a man is a God-fearing man. He is a man with a heart and a conscience.

For more info, read our Bible Verses About Self Control.

2. A man provides for his household (1 Timothy 5:8)

1 Timothy 5:8 reads, “But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.” It is without a doubt that any man who does not work and provide for his household ends up with a sense of shameful feeling. That is his self-worth sinks. As a man, you must embrace work. You should learn what it takes to obtain a job, work hard, maintain high performance, and be able to meet the needs of your household. Behold, a man who is unable to keep a job, who is always moving from one job to another, or who refuses to willingly assume his family responsibilities is actually putting his household in a state of insecurity. A responsible man is one who provides for his family -emotionally, spiritually, physically, financially, and educationally.

3. A man protects his family (Proverbs 4:10-15)

Here, we’ll borrow an expression from Wayne Grudem and John Piper on the essence of masculinity: When you are lying in bed with your wife and suddenly hear the sound of a kitchen window being opened at 3 a.m., do you shake her awake and say, “The last time this occurred, I was the one who took our baseball bat and investigated to see if someone was breaking into our house. Now it’s your turn, Sweetheart. Here’s the bat!”? Obviously No! However, being a protector to your household calls for far more than just ensuring physical safety. Proverbs 4:10-15 portrays a father who protects his son by passing on wisdom, teaching him the ways of God Almighty, teaching him to reject the lies and temptations of the world, and helping him build godly character. This father is protecting even the generation to come as this wisdom will be passed on.

For more info read What The Bible Says About Fathers.

4. A man serves and leads his family (Ephesians 5:23)

While the world quickly sees serving and leading as contradictions, the Bible clearly tells us that they are inseparable. In Ephesians 5:23 where Apostle Paul says, “the husband is the head of the wife,” he quickly dismisses any notions that this leadership allows for selfish male dominance. Apostle Paul does this by completing the sentence with “as Christ also is the head of the church.” The passage goes on to say in verse 25 that husbands should love their wives “just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her” This definition of leadership is quite contrary to that offered by the world. We are trying to say here that a man is called to be a servant-leader-to take responsibility for his wife and children as he puts their needs ahead of his. Also, a man is invited to demonstrate selfless, and sacrificial love.

5. A man follows God’s design for true masculinity (Micah 6:8)

In support of this point, let’s read from Micah 6:8 – “He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” The core or essence of every man’s life should be his relationship with God the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven, and Earth. A man who goes after God’s heart knows the importance of embracing his responsibilities.

What The Scriptures Say About Christian Husbands Leading

The Bible tells us that God loves His daughters and the children that they bear. Whenever God gives one of His daughters to a man, He desires that the man love, care, protect, and provide for her. In no way does the Scripture teach that women and children be considered second rate or inferior to men. God finds them so special that He asks for special care to be given the; a care that only Biblically-based men can provide. It is without doubt that women are quite capable of taking care of themselves. However, God created men and women to be physically different. And due to the physical nature and strength that God gave men, He has charged them with the provision and protection of their families. However, the physical nature and strength of a man are to be managed with grace and gentleness.

God did not create men to lord over women nor did He create women to simply sit back and wait on men. Rather, He made them to complement each other through a healthy companionship. Being a good companion is one of the roles of a husband in the Bible. In fact, the role of the husband in the Bible is fulfilled through the heart of companionship.

It is in this light that Ephesians 5:25-33 says, “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church—for we are members of his body. ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’ This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.”

What Does The Bible Say About Man’s Authority?

Genesis 1:27 – “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”

Genesis 1:26Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Hebrews 2:7 – “You made him for a little while lower than the angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor,

Psalm 8:6-8 – “You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.”

Job 4:17 – “‘Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?

Isaiah 43:7 – “Everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”

Proverbs 20:27 – “The spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all his innermost parts.

Group 1 – What Does The Bible Say About Man’s Authority?

1 Peter 3:7 – “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.

Ephesians 5:25-33 – “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 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. 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, …

1 Corinthians 7:1-7 – “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. …”

Group 2 – What Does The Bible Say About Man’s Authority?

1 Timothy 3:1-16 – “The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s church? ...”

Ephesians 5:23 – “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.”

Ephesians 5:22 – “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.”

1 Peter 3:7 – “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.

Ephesians 5:25 – “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,”

1 Peter 3:1 – “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,”

1 Timothy 2:11-15 – “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. For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

Group 3 – What Does The Bible Say About Man’s Authority?

Psalm 33:13-15 – “The Lord looks down from heaven; he sees all the children of man; from where he sits enthroned he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth, he who fashions the hearts of them all and observes all their deeds.

Genesis 2:7 – “Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

1 Timothy 5:8 – “But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.”

James 2:26 – “For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.”

Psalm 100:3 – “Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.”

Psalm 144:4 – “Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.”

Psalm 8:4 – “What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?

Group 4 – What Does The Bible Say About Man’s Authority?

Hebrews 9:27 – “And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,”

Psalm 8:3 – “When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,”

Psalm 139:14 – “I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.”

Psalm 8:5 – “Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.

Psalm 119:73 – “Your hands have made and fashioned me; give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.”

Psalm 144:3 – “O Lord, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him?

Psalm 138:8 – “The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.”

Job 4:19 – “How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.”

Group 5 – What Does The Bible Say About Man’s Authority?

Job 31:15 – “Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

Job 15:14 – “What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?

John 4:24 – “God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Ecclesiastes 1:8 – “All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.”

Ecclesiastes 12:7 – “And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Job 14:1-5 – “Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble. He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not. And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you? Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one. Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,

Group 6 – What Does The Bible Say About Man’s Authority?

1 Corinthians 15:49 – “Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.”

Job 10:9 – “Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust?

James 3:9 – “With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.”

1 Corinthians 2:11 – “For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.”

Group 7 – What Does The Bible Say About Man’s Authority?

John 3:3-8Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ …

Hebrews 4:12 – “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.”

Romans 7:14-25 – “For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. ...”

Group 8 – What Does The Bible Say About Man’s Authority?

Isaiah 64:8 – “But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.

Ecclesiastes 3:21 – “Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth?

Job 33:4 – “The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.”

Ecclesiastes 2:14 – “The wise person has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that the same event happens to all of them.”

Job 31:13-15 – “If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me, what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him? Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

Job 32:8 – “But it is the spirit in man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand.

Group 9 – What Does The Bible Say About Man’s Authority?

Job 25:4-6 – “How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure? Behold, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure in his eyes; how much less man, who is a maggot, and the son of man, who is a worm!

Job 10:2 – “I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.”

1 Corinthians 11:7 – “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.”

Malachi 2:10 – “Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

1 Corinthians 6:20 – “For you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.”

Genesis 1:28And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Group 10 – What Does The Bible Say About Man’s Authority?

Acts 7:59And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

Proverbs 16:4 – “The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.”

Isaiah 42:5 – “Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it:

Job 38:4 – “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.”

Ecclesiastes 7:29 – “See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”

Job 10:8 – “Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether.

Job 35:10 – “But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,”

Genesis 9:6 – “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.

Group 11 – What Does The Bible Say About Man’s Authority?

Genesis 9:3 – “Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.”

Job 4:18-21 – “Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error; how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth. Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it. Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?’”

1 Thessalonians 5:23 – “Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Hebrews 2:8 – “Putting everything in subjection under his feet.” Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him.”

Genesis 5:2 – “Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.”

Group 12 – What Does The Bible Say About Man’s Authority?

2 Corinthians 5:1-9 – “For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked. For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. …

2 Corinthians 4:6 – “For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”

2 Corinthians 4:16 – “So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.”

Galatians 3:28 – “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.”

Group 13 – What Does The Bible Say About Man’s Authority?

Mark 10:6 – “But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’

1 Corinthians 15:21 – “For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.”

1 Corinthians 15:48 – “As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven.

Luke 23:46 – “Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.

1 Corinthians 15:22 – “For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

Matthew 10:28 – “And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.”

Acts 17:26 – “And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,

Group 14 – What Does The Bible Say About Man’s Authority?

Daniel 2:38 – “And into whose hand he has given, wherever they dwell, the children of man, the beasts of the field, and the birds of the heavens, making you rule over them all—you are the head of gold.”

Matthew 23:8 – “But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers.”

Zechariah 12:1 – “The burden of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus declares the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him:

Jeremiah 27:5 – “It is I who by my great power and my outstretched arm have made the earth, with the men and animals that are on the earth, and I give it to whomever it seems right to me.”

Jeremiah 28:14 – “For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put upon the neck of all these nations an iron yoke to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they shall serve him, for I have given to him even the beasts of the field.’”

Group 15 – What Does The Bible Say On Man’s Authority?

Isaiah 45:12 – “I made the earth and created man on it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host.”

Jeremiah 27:6 – “Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant, and I have given him also the beasts of the field to serve him.”

Ecclesiastes 3:20 – “All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return.

Isaiah 17:7 – “In that day man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel.”

Job 38:13 – “That it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?

Psalm 31:5 – “Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God.”

Group 16 – What Does The Bible Say On Man’s Authority?

Job 35:2-8 – “Do you think this to be just? Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’ that you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’ I will answer you and your friends with you. Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you. If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him? ...”

1 Corinthians 14:14 – “For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful.”

Job 38:12 – “Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place,

Romans 2:29 – “But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God.”

Job 10:3 – “Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the designs of the wicked?

Ephesians 4:4 – “There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—

Job 4:18 – “Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error;

Group 17 – What Does The Bible Say On Man’s Authority?

Mark 10:42-44And Jesus called them to him and said to them, “You know that those who are considered rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all.”

1 Corinthians 7:34 – “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.”

Matthew 23:11 – “The greatest among you shall be your servant.”

Romans 1:9 – “For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you.”

Matthew 4:4But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Isaiah 26:9 – “My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.”

Group 18 – What Does The Bible Say For Man’s Authority?

Ephesians 6:1-4 – “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”

Ecclesiastes 2:15 – “Then I said in my heart, “What happens to the fool will happen to me also. Why then have I been so very wise?” And I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

Matthew 20:25-28But Jesus called them to him and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave, even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

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What Does The Bible Say About Manhood?

What Does The Bible Say About Manhood

What Does The Bible Say About Manhood? When it comes to what the Bible says about manhood, there is much to point out. It is without a doubt that the world offers lots of confusing points as to what being a man is. Many people think, belief, and say that being a man requires grit determination and a working knowledge of weaponry. Others view manliness as strength, power, authority, protection, provision, and leadership. In the same light, others believe that manliness is all about getting in touch with one’s feelings, being sensitive, caring, protecting, and providing for the less privileged. Likewise, others when talking of manliness would include a good work ethic, riches, physical stature, wealth, and/or sexual prowess. But can these things truly describe manliness? This is the question we’ll be answering.

In order to clear our minds of all confusion and know what a true man is, we do not need to look any further than the life of our Lord and Savior Jesus Chris. As the Son of Man, Jesus is the essence of manhood. In fact, His life and teachings reveal what truly being a man is. Behold, Jesus Christ was full of the Holy Spirit and lived on full obedience and complete dependence on the Word of God. We can say of Christ in human nature that He was a Man after God’s Heart. He came to the Earth not to fulfill his will but that of God the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth. By so doing, Jesus Christ fully reflected the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23). Hence, the life of a true man of God should also reflect these works of the Spirit.

What Does The Bible Say About Manhood?

Like Jesus of Nazareth, a true man is obedient to the Father’s Will and is about His Father’s business (Hebrews 10:19). In Jesus Christ is righteousness for He lived a sinless life. And because we have all sinned and fallen short of God’s glory, it is our duty to seek the light that comes from no other but Jesus Christ (Romans 3:23 and John 14:6). It is in this light that the godly man will flee away from sin and strive for a righteous life through Christ. Through the Power of the Holy Spirit, the godly man seeks to keep God’s Law as well as dwell in God’s will. With grit and determination, he steps forward to accomplish God’s will regardless of what it might cost him (Isaiah 50:7). Such a man endures persecution, opposition, hardship, and suffering for Christ’s sake without losing his heart (Hebrews 12:3).

A godly man is a man whose heart goes after God’s Word. He makes use of the Scripture to overcome temptation (Matthew 4:1-10). Joyfully praying without ceasing (1 Thessalonians 5:17), he is considered a man of prayer (Mark 1:35). Such is the man of love and sacrifice as we can read from John 13:1.
1 Corinthians 16:13-14 says, “Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong. Do everything in love.” With this verse in mind, we can say without a doubt that a true man is vigilant against sin, and danger, and is faithful to the Truth. Also, he is brave in the face of opposition, persistent in carrying his cross to follow Jesus Christ on a daily basis, and, above all, loving in all things.

What The Scriptures Say About Manhood

There is much that the Scriptures say about manhood. We can find a good description of a godly man by reading the Bible’s qualifications for elders and deacons in 1 Timothy 3:2-4; 7 which says, “Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own family well. . . . He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the devil’s trap.”

In addition 1 Timothy 3:8-9 says, “Deacons, likewise, are to be men worthy of respect, sincere, not indulging in much wine, and not pursuing dishonest gain. They must keep hold of the deep truths of the faith with a clear conscience.”
According to 1 Corinthians 13:11, a true man is a person who has “put away childish things.” He knows what is right and with confidence, he stands for it without fear of persecution. Also, a true man is one who loves God with all his heart, spirit, and soul (Matthew 22:37). Likewise, he also loves his neighbor as he loves himself (Matthew 22:39).

What The Scriptures Say About Adulthood

The Israelites In The Wilderness (Numbers 14)

In the Biblical book of Numbers, chapter 14, the Lord God Almighty pronounced judgment on all the Israelites who were 20 years old or older (except for Joshua and Caleb and their families) because they had willingly refused to believe Him even after all the great signs and wonders that He had done in Egypt and in the wilderness on their way to the promised land. Behold, they were sentenced to wander in the wilderness for 40 years until they dropped dead. Numbers 14:29–30 says, “Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me. Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.”

Numbers 14:31–33 says, “But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised. But as for you, your carcasses, they shall fall in this wilderness. And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness.” In this Scripture, notice how “little ones” is used interchangeably with and means the same thing as “children.” As punishment to the Israelites, the Lord God sentenced them to 40 years of wandering in the wilderness until all the people who were 20 years old or older – at the time of sentencing by God – died.
Notice how all the people who were not yet 20 years old, the “little ones,” the “children,” were allowed to live. Nevertheless, they still had to wander for 40 years in the wilderness before entering the promised land.

Significance of Age 20 in the Bible

The age of 20 signifies adulthood. It’s important for Christians to understand and to be able to clearly make the difference between childhood and adulthood. Understanding that a person becomes an adult at age 20 is important in accomplishing one’s purpose. The Word of the Lord God commands parents to discipline their children and commands children to obey their parents in the Lord (Proverbs 22:6, 15; Ephesians 6:1). Obedience to your parents in the Lord is a quality that will guide you into successfully entering adulthood with favor in the side of the Lord God.

In Numbers 14:29–30, we see the difference that the Lord God makes between people who are age 20 and over, and people who are age under 20. It’s without a doubt that there were numerous teenagers and other children who were just as sinful and murmured and complained just as much as their parents. But the Lord God did not sentence them to die, as He did the adults. The simple reason is that the Lord God does not hold children to the same accountability as He does adults.
1 Corinthians 13:11 says, “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” As a matter of fact, children ( age19 and below) think and understand like children. Although there are few exceptions, they do not always act like adults in every way.

From Teenagehood to Adulthood

Occasionally, we meet teenagers that seem more mature than their age. By the age of 17, 18, or 19, they may seem to act like adults. This is very rare and they probably do not act like an adult in every way. But because they are children who think, understand, and act like children, the Lord God does not hold them fully accountable for their actions as He does adults. The Lord God holds adults (age 20 and above) fully accountable for their own actions. But with children, the Lord God holds them accountable on a sliding scale.

A baby, of course, has no accountability for his/her actions. He/she does not even know what he/she is doing. But as that baby grows, the Lord God begins to hold that child more and more accountable for his/her actions until the time when he/she reaches the age of 20 and is fully accountable for his/her actions. This explains why the Lord God allowed the children to live and enter the promised land, but He sentenced the adults to death in the wilderness. The adults were allowed by God to raise their children to maturity and prepare them to enter the promised land but did not themselves enter the promised land.

What to know about the age of accountability as a Christian

The Bible does not explicitly give any age as being the age of accountability. And as a result, many people think differently on this subject matter. Some people consider the age of 12 as being the age of accountability. Others consider the age of 13 as the age of accountability. And others completely consider different ages with each and everyone trying to support his/her point of view Biblically.

In Judaism, when a boy is around twelve (12) years of age, he memorizes sections of the Torah (the Law of God) and with his prayer shawl around his shoulders will recite in committal before his family and rabbi to become a man. This is similar to the long period of silence between the birth of the Lord Jesus and the time He was twelve (12) years of age. Just like Jesus Christ, children of age 12 and above should be concerned about doing God’s Will and keeping His commands as they flee from sin (Luke 2:41-52). And as such, thirteen (13) is the most common age suggested for the age of accountability, based on the Jewish custom that a child becomes an adult at the age of thirteen (13). Nevertheless, the Bible does not explicitly support the age of 13 as always being the age of accountability.
It likely varies from child to child. And as such, it is thought that a child has passed the age of accountability once he/she is capable of making a faith decision for or against Christ. With this in mind, we should teach the children how to keep and honor the ways of the Lord God. Proverbs 22:6 says, “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”

Census and Military Service

In studying the Bible, we notice that whenever the Lord God numbered the people, whether it was for census or military purposes, or whatever, He counted the people who were age 20 and above (Exodus 38:26; Numbers, chapter 1; 2 Chronicles 31:17; Ezra 3:8). This is important because the age of 20 and above signifies adulthood.

The Blind Man (John 9)

John 9:1-3 says, “And as Jesus passed by, He saw a man which was blind from his birth. And His disciples asked Him, saying, ‘Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?’ Jesus answered, ‘Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents….’
One of the things which we can deduce from this Scripture is that the person had been blind for at least 20 (twenty) years, given that he had been blind from his birth and was now an adult. We are further told in the story how Jesus Christ healed the man so that he could see. When the Pharisees questioned the man’s parents how their son recovered his sight, they answered in verse 21 saying, “He is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.” Once again, we can deduce from this Scripture that a “man” is a person who is of age and can speak for himself. This would equally be true for a “woman.” Therefore, a “woman” is a person who is of age and can speak for herself.
In other words, a person must be 20 years of age or above to speak for himself or herself. And as such, if a person is not yet 20 years of age or above, they are under the authority of their parents who are to speak for them.

What The Bible Says About The Purpose Of Man (Humanity)

The Bible clearly tells us that we were created by God in order to bring Him glory (Genesis 1:25-31). Thus, the ultimate purpose of man (humanity) is to glorify God (Isaiah 43:7). As His creatures, it is our duty to know Him and make Him known by glorifying Him with our lives. The question now is: how do we glorify God?

Ways To Glorify God

1. Worship Him with gladness and thanksgiving (Psalms 100:2-4)

One of the ways to glorify God, the Father of Creation, is to worship Him with gladness and thanksgiving. That is, we are to acknowledge Him as our creator and worship Him as such.
In support of this point, Psalms 100:2-4 says, “Serve the LORD with gladness!
Come into his presence with singing!
Know that the LORD, he is God!
It is he who made us, and we are his;
we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
and his courts with praise!
Give thanks to him; bless his name!

2. Honoring and serving Him with our lives and decisions (1 Samuel 12:24)

Honoring and serving God with our lives and decisions is one of the greatest ways to glorify Him for Who He Is. The ability to do this comes from the love in our heart for Who He Is as we can read from 1 Samuel 12:24, “Only fear the LORD and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider what great things he has done for you.” Always remember that we were created in God’s image and as such, we fulfill our life purpose through a life devoted to Him (Genesis 1:26–27). After a significant period of living a life of self-indulgence, King Solomon came to the conclusion that living for oneself was useless. With this conclusion, he pointed to the fact that the ultimate purpose of man is to live a life of obedience to God (Ecclesiastes 12:13–14).

Humans are naturally sinful. It takes the sin-cleansing ability of Jesus Christ for us to be found righteous in the presence of God. Thanks to Jesus Christ’s sacrifice of His own Life on the Cross at Calvary, we have a reconciled relationship with God. That is, there is no longer a sin barrier between those who are in Christ and God. When we submit our lives to Christ, we are able to glorify God in truth and in spirit. This submission comes through Sincere Repentance and obedience to the Key Teachings Of Jesus Christ. In living our lives by following the example of Jesus Christ, we are glorifying Him as well as glorying the One who sent Him (2 Corinthians 3:1–6).

Understanding Your Blessings As A Child Of God

In the New Testament, Apostle Paul affirms that God “had set me apart before I was born” (see Galatians 1:15–16). Whatever you do, always remember that God’s plans and purposes for our lives will always result in His glory. In support of this, 1 Corinthians 10:31 says, “So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.” Today, we have the ability to glorify God because He first crowned us with glory and honor (Psalms 8:4-6 and Hebrews 2:6-8). In addition to this glory and honor, God gave us dominion over the Earth (Genesis 1:28–29). By so doing, God conferred to us the task of stewarding the earth to the best of our ability and above all for the sake of His Glory.

Five Themes Of Biblical Manhood

1. A man knows the importance of self-control (Titus 2:11-12)

Titus 2:11-12 says, For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age…”

A true man values self-control. That is, he controls his emotions and passions. Whether single or married, a real man tames his passions. As a mature man, he doesn’t abuse women or children but rather protects and provides for them. Knowing where he is coming from and where he is going, he keeps his hands off a woman who is not his wife. He treats his wife with love, respect, and dignity. He teaches his household the importance of loving God and obeying His commands. Also, he protects a single woman’s virginity and innocence. He keeps his eyes off pornographic images and is not defined by his exploits below the waist. Such a man is a God-fearing man. He is a man with a heart and a conscience.

For more info, read our Bible Verses About Self Control.

2. A man provides for his household (1 Timothy 5:8)

1 Timothy 5:8 reads, “But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.” It is without a doubt that any man who does not work and provide for his household ends up with a sense of shameful feeling. That is his self-worth sinks. As a man, you must embrace work. You should learn what it takes to obtain a job, work hard, maintain high performance, and be able to meet the needs of your household. Behold, a man who is unable to keep a job, who is always moving from one job to another, or who refuses to willingly assume his family responsibilities is actually putting his household in a state of insecurity. A responsible man is one who provides for his family -emotionally, spiritually, physically, financially, and educationally.

3. A man protects his family (Proverbs 4:10-15)

Here, we’ll borrow an expression from Wayne Grudem and John Piper on the essence of masculinity: When you are lying in bed with your wife and suddenly hear the sound of a kitchen window being opened at 3 a.m., do you shake her awake and say, “The last time this occurred, I was the one who took our baseball bat and investigated to see if someone was breaking into our house. Now it’s your turn, Sweetheart. Here’s the bat!”? Obviously No! However, being a protector of your household calls for far more than just ensuring physical safety. Proverbs 4:10-15 portrays a father who protects his son by passing on wisdom, teaching him the ways of God Almighty, teaching him to reject the lies and temptations of the world, and helping him build godly character. This father is protecting even the generation to come as this wisdom will be passed on.

For more info read What The Bible Says About Fathers.

4. A man serves and leads his family (Ephesians 5:23)

While the world quickly sees serving and leading as contradictions, the Bible clearly tells us that they are inseparable. In Ephesians 5:23 where Apostle Paul says, “the husband is the head of the wife,” he quickly dismisses any notions that this leadership allows for selfish male dominance. Apostle Paul does this by completing the sentence with “as Christ also is the head of the church.” The passage goes on to say in verse 25 that husbands should love their wives “just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her” This definition of leadership is quite contrary to that offered by the world. We are trying to say here that a man is called to be a servant-leader in taking responsibility for his wife and children as he puts their needs ahead of his. Also, a man is invited to demonstrate selfless, and sacrificial love.

5. A man follows God’s design for true masculinity (Micah 6:8)

In support of this point, let’s read from Micah 6:8 – “He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” The core or essence of every man’s life should be his relationship with God the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven, and Earth. A man who goes after God’s heart knows the importance of embracing his responsibilities.

What Does The Bible Say About Manhood

Job 4:17 – “‘Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?

Hebrews 2:7 – “You made him for a little while lower than the angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor,

Genesis 1:26Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Genesis 1:27 – “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”

Proverbs 20:27 – “The spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all his innermost parts.

Isaiah 43:7 – “Everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”

Psalm 8:6-8 – “You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.”

Group 1 – What Does The Bible Say About Manhood?

Genesis 2:7 – “Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Psalm 33:13-15 – “The Lord looks down from heaven; he sees all the children of man; from where he sits enthroned he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth, he who fashions the hearts of them all and observes all their deeds.

Psalm 144:4 – “Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.”

Psalm 8:4 – “What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?

Psalm 100:3 – “Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.”

James 2:26 – “For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.”

Group 2 – What Does The Bible Say About Manhood?

Psalm 8:3 – “When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,”

Hebrews 9:27 – “And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,”

Psalm 8:5 – “Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.

Psalm 139:14 – “I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.”

Psalm 144:3 – “O Lord, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him?

Psalm 119:73 – “Your hands have made and fashioned me; give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.”

Job 4:19 – “How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.”

Psalm 138:8 – “The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.

Group 3 – What Does The Bible Say About Manhood?

John 4:24 – “God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Job 15:14 – “What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?

Job 31:15 – “Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

Job 14:1-5 – “Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble. He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not. And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you? Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one. Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,

Ecclesiastes 1:8 – “All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.”

Ecclesiastes 12:7 – “And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Group 4 – What Does The Bible Say About Manhood?

1 Corinthians 15:49 – “Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.”

James 3:9 – “With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.”

Job 10:9 – “Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust?

1 Corinthians 2:11 – “For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

Group 5 – What Does The Bible Say About Manhood?

Hebrews 4:12 – “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.”

John 3:3-8Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ …

Romans 7:14-25 – “For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. ...”

Group 6 – What Does The Bible Say About Manhood?

Ecclesiastes 2:14 – “The wise person has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that the same event happens to all of them.”

Job 33:4 – “The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.”

Ecclesiastes 3:21 – “Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth?

Isaiah 64:8 – “But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.

Job 31:13-15 – “If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me, what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him? Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

Job 32:8 – “But it is the spirit in man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand.

Group 7 – What Does The Bible Say About Manhood?

1 Corinthians 11:7 – “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.”

Job 10:2 – “I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.”

Job 25:4-6 – “How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure? Behold, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure in his eyes; how much less man, who is a maggot, and the son of man, who is a worm!

Malachi 2:10 – “Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

Genesis 1:28And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

1 Corinthians 6:20 – “For you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.”

Group 8 – What Does The Bible Say About Manhood?

Ecclesiastes 7:29 – “See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”

Proverbs 16:4 – “The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.”

Acts 7:59And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

Isaiah 42:5 – “Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it:

Genesis 9:6 – “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.

Job 35:10 – “But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,”

Job 38:4 – “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.”

Job 10:8 – “Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether.

Group 9 – What Does The Bible Say About Manhood?

Job 4:18-21 – “Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error; how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth. Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it. Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?’”

Genesis 9:3 – “Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.”

1 Thessalonians 5:23 – “Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Hebrews 2:8 – “Putting everything in subjection under his feet.” Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him.”

Genesis 5:2 – “Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.”

Group 10 – What Does The Bible Say About Manhood?

2 Corinthians 5:1-9 – “For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked. For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. …

2 Corinthians 4:6 – “For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”

Galatians 3:28 – “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.”

2 Corinthians 4:16 – “So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.”

Group 11 – What Does The Bible Say About Manhood?

1 Corinthians 15:21 – “For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.”

Luke 23:46 – “Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.

1 Corinthians 15:22 – “For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

1 Corinthians 15:48 – “As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven.

Acts 17:26 – “And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,

Matthew 10:28 – “And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.”

Mark 10:6 – “But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’

Group 12 – What Does The Bible Say About Manhood?

Zechariah 12:1 – “The burden of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus declares the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him:

Matthew 23:8 – “But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers.”

Daniel 2:38 – “And into whose hand he has given, wherever they dwell, the children of man, the beasts of the field, and the birds of the heavens, making you rule over them all—you are the head of gold.”

Jeremiah 28:14 – “For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put upon the neck of all these nations an iron yoke to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they shall serve him, for I have given to him even the beasts of the field.’”

Jeremiah 27:5 – “It is I who by my great power and my outstretched arm have made the earth, with the men and animals that are on the earth, and I give it to whomever it seems right to me.”

Group 13 – What Does The Bible Say About Manhood?

Ecclesiastes 3:20 – “All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return.

Jeremiah 27:6 – “Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant, and I have given him also the beasts of the field to serve him.”

Isaiah 45:12 – “I made the earth and created man on it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host.”

Psalm 31:5 – “Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God.”

Job 38:13 – “That it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?

Isaiah 17:7 – “In that day man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel.”

Proverbs 22:2 – “The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the maker of them all.

Group 14 – What The Bible Says About Manhood?

Job 10:3 – “Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the designs of the wicked?

Job 38:12 – “Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place,

1 Corinthians 14:14 – “For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful.”

Job 35:2-8 – “Do you think this to be just? Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’ that you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’ I will answer you and your friends with you. Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you. If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him? ...”

Romans 2:29 – “But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God.”

Job 4:18 – “Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error;

Ephesians 4:4 – “There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—

Group 15 – What The Bible Says About Manhood?

1 Corinthians 7:34 – “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.”

Mark 10:42-44And Jesus called them to him and said to them, “You know that those who are considered rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all.”

Matthew 4:4But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Isaiah 26:9 – “My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.”

Romans 1:9 – “For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you.”

Matthew 23:11 – “The greatest among you shall be your servant.”

Group 16 – What The Bible Says About Manhood?

Ecclesiastes 2:15 – “Then I said in my heart, “What happens to the fool will happen to me also. Why then have I been so very wise?” And I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

Ephesians 6:1-4 – “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”

Matthew 20:25-28But Jesus called them to him and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave, even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

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Bible Verses About Godly Man

Bible Verses About Godly Man

There are many Bible Verses About Godly Man. The Bible Verses About Being A Godly Man will teach you what it takes to find mercy and favor in the presence of God. It is without a doubt that the world offers lots of confusing points as to what being a man is. Many people think, believe and say that being a man requires grit determination and a working knowledge of weaponry. Others view manliness as strength, power, authority, protection, provision, and leadership. In the same light, others believe that manliness is all about getting in touch with one’s feelings, being sensitive, caring, protecting, and providing for the less privileged. Likewise, others when talking of manliness would include a good work ethic, riches, physical stature, wealth, and/or sexual prowess. But can these things truly describe manliness? This is the question we’ll be answering.

In order to clear our minds of all confusions and know what a true man is, we do not need to look any further than the life of our Lord and Savior Jesus Chris. As the Son of Man, Jesus is the essence of manhood. In fact, His life and teachings reveal what truly being a man is. Behold, Jesus Christ was full of the Holy Spirit and lived on full obedience and complete dependence on the Word of God. We can say of Christ in the human nature that He was a Man after God’s Heart. He came to the Earth not to fulfill his will but that of God the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth. By so doing, Jesus Christ fully reflected the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23). Hence, the life of a true man of God should also reflect these works of the Spirit.

Bible Verses About Godly Man

Like Jesus of Nazareth, a godly man is obedient to the Father’s Will and is about His Father’s business (Hebrews 10:19). In Jesus Christ is righteousness for He lived a sinless life. And because we have all sinned and fallen short of God’s glory, it is our duty to seek the light that comes from no other but Jesus Christ (Romans 3:23 and John 14:6). It is in this light that the godly man will flee away from sin and strive for a righteous life through Christ. Through the Power of the Holy Spirit, the godly man seeks to keep God’s Law as well as dwell in God’s will. With a grit determination, he steps forward to accomplish God’s will regardless of what it might cost him (Isaiah 50:7). Such a man endures persecution, opposition, hardship, and suffering for Christ’s sake without losing heart (Hebrews 12:3).

A godly man is a man whose heart goes after God’s Word. He makes use of the Scripture to overcome temptation (Matthew 4:1-10). Joyfully praying without ceasing (1 Thessalonians 5:17), he is considered a man of prayer (Mark 1:35). Such is the man of love and sacrifice as we can read from John 13:1.
1 Corinthians 16:13-14 says, “Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong. Do everything in love.” With this verse in mind, we can say without a doubt that a true man is vigilant against sin, danger, and is faithful to the Truth. Also, he is brave in the face of opposition, persistent in carrying his cross to follow Jesus Christ on a daily basis, and, above all, loving in all things.

What Does The Bible Say About A Godly Man?

There is much that the Bible says about the godly man. We can find a good description of a godly man by reading the Bible’s qualifications for elders and deacons in 1 Timothy 3:2-4; 7 that says, “Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own family well. . . . He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the devil’s trap.”

In addition 1 Timothy 3:8-9 says, “Deacons, likewise, are to be men worthy of respect, sincere, not indulging in much wine, and not pursuing dishonest gain. They must keep hold of the deep truths of the faith with a clear conscience.”
According to 1 Corinthians 13:11, a true man is a person who has “put away childish things.” He knows what is right and with confidence, he stands for it without fear of persecution. Also, a true man is one who loves God with all his heart, spirit, and soul (Matthew 22:37). Likewise, he also loves his neighbor as he loves himself (Matthew 22:39).

What The Bible Says About The Purpose Of Man (Humanity)

The Bible clearly tells us that we were created by God in order to bring Him glory (Genesis 1:25-31). Thus, the ultimate purpose of man (humanity) is to glorify God (Isaiah 43:7). As His creatures, it is our duty to know Him and make Him known by glorifying Him with our lives. The question now is: how do we glorify God?

Ways To Glorify God

1. Worship Him with gladness and thanksgiving (Psalms 100:2-4)

One of the ways to glorify God, the Father of Creation, is to worship Him with gladness and thanksgiving. That is, we are to acknowledge Him as our creator and worship Him as such.
In support of this point, Psalms 100:2-4 says, “Serve the LORD with gladness!
Come into his presence with singing!
Know that the LORD, he is God!
It is he who made us, and we are his;
we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
and his courts with praise!
Give thanks to him; bless his name!

2. Honoring and serving Him with our lives and decisions (1 Samuel 12:24)

Honoring and serving God with our lives and decisions is one of the greatest ways to glorify Him for Who He Is. The ability to do this comes from the love in our heart for Who He Is as we can read from 1 Samuel 12:24, “Only fear the LORD and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider what great things he has done for you.” Always remember that we were created in God’s image and as such, we fulfill our life purpose through a life devoted to Him (Genesis 1:26–27). After a significant period of living a life of self-indulgence, King Solomon came to the conclusion that living for oneself was useless. With this conclusion, he pointed to the fact that the ultimate purpose of man is to live a life of obedience to God (Ecclesiastes 12:13–14).

Humans are naturally sinful. It takes the sin cleansing ability of Jesus Christ for us to be found righteous in the presence of God. Thanks to Jesus Christ’s sacrifice of His own Life on the Cross at Calvary, we have a reconciled relationship with God. That is, there is no longer a sin barrier between those who are in Christ and God. When we submit our lives to Christ, we are able to glorify God in truth and in spirit. This submission comes through Sincere Repentance and obedience to the Key Teachings Of Jesus Christ. In living our lives by following the example of Jesus Christ, we are glorifying Him as well as glorying the One who sent Him (2 Corinthians 3:1–6).

Understanding Your Blessings As A Child Of God

In the New Testament, Apostle Paul affirms that God “had set me apart before I was born” (see Galatians 1:15–16). Whatever you do, always remember that God’s plans and purposes for our lives will always result in His glory. In support of this, 1 Corinthians 10:31 says, “So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.” Today, we have the ability to glorify God because He first crowned us with glory and honor (Psalms 8:4-6 and Hebrews 2:6-8). In addition to this glory and honor, God gave us dominion over the Earth (Genesis 1:28–29). By so doing, God conferred to us the task of stewarding the earth to the best of our ability and above all for the sake of His Glory.

Five Themes Of Biblical Manhood

1. A man knows the importance of self-control (Titus 2:11-12)

Titus 2:11-12 says, For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age…”

A true man values self-control. That is, he controls his emotions and passions. Whether single or married, a real man tames his passions. As a mature man, he doesn’t abuse women or children but rather protects and provides for them. Knowing where he is coming from and where he is going, he keeps his hands off a woman who is not his wife. He treats his wife with love, respect, and dignity. He teaches his household the importance of loving God and obeying His commands. Also, he protects a single woman’s virginity and innocence. He keeps his eyes off pornographic images and is not defined by his exploits below the waist. Such a man is a God-fearing man. He is a man with a heart and a conscience.

For more info, read our Bible Verses About Self Control.

2. A man provides for his household (1 Timothy 5:8)

1 Timothy 5:8 reads, “But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.” It is without a doubt that any man who does not work and provide for his household ends up with a sense of shameful feeling. That is his self-worth sinks. As a man, you must embrace work. You should learn what it takes to obtain a job, work hard, maintain high performance, and be able to meet the needs of your household. Behold, a man who is unable to keep a job, who is always moving from one job to another, or who refuses to willingly assume his family responsibilities is actually putting his household in a state of insecurity. A responsible man is one who provides for his family -emotionally, spiritually, physically, financially, and educationally.

3. A man protects his family (Proverbs 4:10-15)

Here, we’ll borrow an expression from Wayne Grudem and John Piper on the essence of masculinity: When you are lying in bed with your wife and suddenly hear the sound of a kitchen window being opened at 3 a.m., do you shake her awake and say, “The last time this occurred, I was the one who took our baseball bat and investigated to see if someone was breaking into our house. Now it’s your turn, Sweetheart. Here’s the bat!”? Obviously No! However, being a protector to your household calls for far more than just ensuring physical safety. Proverbs 4:10-15 portrays a father who protects his son by passing on wisdom, teaching him the ways of God Almighty, teaching him to reject the lies and temptations of the world, and helping him build godly character. This father is protecting even the generation to come as this wisdom will be passed on.

For more info read What The Bible Says About Fathers.

4. A man serves and leads his family (Ephesians 5:23)

While the world quickly sees serving and leading as contradictions, the Bible clearly tells us that they are inseparable. In Ephesians 5:23 where Apostle Paul says, “the husband is the head of the wife,” he quickly dismisses any notions that this leadership allows for selfish male dominance. Apostle Paul does this by completing the sentence with “as Christ also is the head of the church.” The passage goes on to say in verse 25 that husbands should love their wives “just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her” This definition of leadership is quite contrary to that offered by the world. We are trying to say here that a man is called to be a servant-leader-to take responsibility for his wife and children as he puts their needs ahead of his. Also, a man is invited to demonstrate selfless, and sacrificial love.

5. A man follows God’s design for true masculinity (Micah 6:8)

In support of this point, let’s read from Micah 6:8 – “He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” The core or essence of every man’s life should be his relationship with God the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven, and Earth. A man who goes after God’s heart knows the importance of embracing his responsibilities.

Bible Verses About Godly Man

Genesis 1:27 – “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”

Job 4:17 – “‘Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?

Genesis 1:26Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Hebrews 2:7 – “You made him for a little while lower than the angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor,

Psalm 8:6-8 – “You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.”

Proverbs 20:27 – “The spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all his innermost parts.

Isaiah 43:7 – “Everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”

Group 1 – Bible Verses About Godly Man

Psalm 33:13-15 – “The Lord looks down from heaven; he sees all the children of man; from where he sits enthroned he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth, he who fashions the hearts of them all and observes all their deeds.

Genesis 2:7 – “Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Psalm 144:4 – “Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.”

Psalm 8:4 – “What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?

James 2:26 – “For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.”

Psalm 100:3 – “Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.”

Group 2 – Bible Verses About Godly Man

Psalm 8:3 – “When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,”

Psalm 8:5 – “Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.

Hebrews 9:27 – “And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,”

Psalm 139:14 – “I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.”

Psalm 119:73 – “Your hands have made and fashioned me; give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.”

Psalm 144:3 – “O Lord, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him?

Psalm 138:8 – “The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.”

Job 4:19 – “How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.”

Group 3 – Bible Verses About Godly Man

Job 31:15 – “Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

John 4:24 – “God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Job 15:14 – “What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?

Job 14:1-5 – “Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble. He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not. And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you? Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one. Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,

Ecclesiastes 12:7 – “And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 1:8 – “All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.”

Group 4 – Bible Verses About Godly Man

1 Corinthians 15:49 – “Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.”

Job 10:9 – “Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust?

James 3:9 – “With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.”

1 Corinthians 2:11 – “For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

Group 5 – Bible Verses About Godly Man

John 3:3-8Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ …

Hebrews 4:12 – “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.”

Romans 7:14-25 – “For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. ...”

Group 6 – Bible Verses About Godly Man

Job 33:4 – “The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.”

Ecclesiastes 2:14 – “The wise person has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that the same event happens to all of them.”

Isaiah 64:8 – “But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.

Ecclesiastes 3:21 – “Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth?

Job 31:13-15 – “If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me, what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him? Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

Job 32:8 – “But it is the spirit in man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand.

Group 7 – Bible Verses About Godly Man

Job 25:4-6 – “How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure? Behold, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure in his eyes; how much less man, who is a maggot, and the son of man, who is a worm!

1 Corinthians 11:7 – “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.”

Job 10:2 – “I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.”

1 Corinthians 6:20 – “For you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.”

Malachi 2:10 – “Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

Genesis 1:28And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Group 8 – Bible Verses About Godly Man

Proverbs 16:4 – “The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.”

Ecclesiastes 7:29 – “See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”

Isaiah 42:5 – “Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it:

Acts 7:59And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

Job 35:10 – “But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,”

Genesis 9:6 – “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.

Job 10:8 – “Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether.

Job 38:4 – “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.”

Group 9 – Bible Verses About A Godly Man

Genesis 9:3 – “Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.”

Job 4:18-21 – “Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error; how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth. Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it. Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?’”

Genesis 5:2 – “Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.”

1 Thessalonians 5:23 – “Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Hebrews 2:8 – “Putting everything in subjection under his feet.” Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him.”

Group 10 – Bible Verses About A Godly Man

2 Corinthians 5:1-9 – “For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked. For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. …

2 Corinthians 4:16 – “So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.”

2 Corinthians 4:6 – “For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”

Galatians 3:28 – “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.”

Group 11 – Bible Verses On Godly Man

1 Corinthians 15:21 – “For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.”

Luke 23:46 – “Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.

1 Corinthians 15:48 – “As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven.

1 Corinthians 15:22 – “For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

Mark 10:6 – “But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’

Matthew 10:28 – “And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.”

Acts 17:26 – “And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,

Group 12

Daniel 2:38 – “And into whose hand he has given, wherever they dwell, the children of man, the beasts of the field, and the birds of the heavens, making you rule over them all—you are the head of gold.”

Zechariah 12:1 – “The burden of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus declares the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him:

Matthew 23:8 – “But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers.”

Jeremiah 27:5 – “It is I who by my great power and my outstretched arm have made the earth, with the men and animals that are on the earth, and I give it to whomever it seems right to me.”

Jeremiah 28:14 – “For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put upon the neck of all these nations an iron yoke to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they shall serve him, for I have given to him even the beasts of the field.’”

Group 13 – Bible Verses On Godly Man

Isaiah 45:12 – “I made the earth and created man on it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host.”

Ecclesiastes 3:20 – “All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return.

Jeremiah 27:6 – “Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant, and I have given him also the beasts of the field to serve him.”

Job 38:13 – “That it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?

Psalm 31:5 – “Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God.”

Proverbs 22:2 – “The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the maker of them all.

Isaiah 17:7 – “In that day man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel.”

Group 14 – Bible Verses About Being A Godly Man

Job 35:2-8 – “Do you think this to be just? Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’ that you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’ I will answer you and your friends with you. Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you. If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him? ...”

Job 10:3 – “Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the designs of the wicked?

Job 38:12 – “Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place,

1 Corinthians 14:14 – “For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful.”

Romans 2:29 – “But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God.”

Job 4:18 – “Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error;

Ephesians 4:4 – “There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—

Group 15 – Bible Verses About Being A Godly Man

Mark 10:42-44And Jesus called them to him and said to them, “You know that those who are considered rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all.”

1 Corinthians 7:34 – “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.”

Matthew 4:4But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Isaiah 26:9 – “My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.”

Matthew 23:11 – “The greatest among you shall be your servant.”

Romans 1:9 – “For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you.”

Group 16 – Bible Verses About Being A Godly Man

Ephesians 6:1-4 – “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”

Ecclesiastes 2:15 – “Then I said in my heart, “What happens to the fool will happen to me also. Why then have I been so very wise?” And I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

Matthew 20:25-28But Jesus called them to him and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave, even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

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What Does The Bible Say About Man?

What Does The Bible Say About Man

What Does The Bible Say About Man? What Does The Bible Say About Being A Man? Truth be told, there is much that the Bible says about being a man. It is without a doubt that the world offers lots of confusing points as to what being a man is. Many people think, believe and say that being a man requires grit determination and a working knowledge of weaponry. Others view manliness as strength, power, authority, protection, provision, and leadership. In the same light, others believe that manliness is all about getting in touch with one’s feelings, being sensitive, caring, protecting, and providing for the less privileged. Likewise, others when talking of manliness would include a good work ethic, riches, physical stature, wealth, and/or sexual prowess. But can these things truly describe manliness? This is the question we’ll be answering.

In order to clear our minds of all confusions and know what a true man is, we do not need to look any further than the life of our Lord and Savior Jesus Chris. As the Son of Man, Jesus is the essence of manhood. In fact, His life and teachings reveal what truly being a man is. Behold, Jesus Christ was full of the Holy Spirit and lived on full obedience and complete dependence on the Word of God. We can say of Christ in the human nature that He was a Man after God’s Heart. He came to the Earth not to fulfill his will but that of God the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth. By so doing, Jesus Christ fully reflected the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23). Hence, the life of a true man of God should also reflect these works of the Spirit.

What Does The Bible Say About Man?

Like Jesus of Nazareth, a true man is obedient to the Father’s Will and is about His Father’s business (Hebrews 10:19). In Jesus Christ is righteousness for He lived a sinless life. And because we have all sinned and fallen short of God’s glory, it is our duty to seek the light that comes from no other but Jesus Christ (Romans 3:23 and John 14:6). It is in this light that the godly man will flee away from sin and strive for a righteous life through Christ. Through the Power of the Holy Spirit, the godly man seeks to keep God’s Law as well as dwell in God’s will. With a grit determination, he steps forward to accomplish God’s will regardless of what it might cost him (Isaiah 50:7). Such a man endures persecution, opposition, hardship, and suffering for Christ’s sake without losing heart (Hebrews 12:3).

A godly man is a man whose heart goes after God’s Word. He makes use of the Scripture to overcome temptation (Matthew 4:1-10). Joyfully praying without ceasing (1 Thessalonians 5:17), he is considered a man of prayer (Mark 1:35). Such is the man of love and sacrifice as we can read from John 13:1.
1 Corinthians 16:13-14 says, “Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong. Do everything in love.” With this verse in mind, we can say without a doubt that a true man is vigilant against sin, danger, and is faithful to the Truth. Also, he is brave in the face of opposition, persistent in carrying his cross to follow Jesus Christ on a daily basis, and, above all, loving in all things.

What The Scriptures Say About Being A Man

There is much that the Scriptures say about the man. We can find a good description of a godly man by reading the Bible’s qualifications for elders and deacons in 1 Timothy 3:2-4; 7 that says, “Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own family well. . . . He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the devil’s trap.”

In addition 1 Timothy 3:8-9 says, “Deacons, likewise, are to be men worthy of respect, sincere, not indulging in much wine, and not pursuing dishonest gain. They must keep hold of the deep truths of the faith with a clear conscience.”
According to 1 Corinthians 13:11, a true man is a person who has “put away childish things.” He knows what is right and with confidence, he stands for it without fear of persecution. Also, a true man is one who loves God with all his heart, spirit, and soul (Matthew 22:37). Likewise, he also loves his neighbor as he loves himself (Matthew 22:39).

What The Bible Says About The Purpose Of Man (Humanity)

The Bible clearly tells us that we were created by God in order to bring Him glory (Genesis 1:25-31). Thus, the ultimate purpose of man (humanity) is to glorify God (Isaiah 43:7). As His creatures, it is our duty to know Him and make Him known by glorifying Him with our lives. The question now is: how do we glorify God?

Ways To Glorify God

1. Worship Him with gladness and thanksgiving (Psalms 100:2-4)

One of the ways to glorify God, the Father of Creation, is to worship Him with gladness and thanksgiving. That is, we are to acknowledge Him as our creator and worship Him as such.
In support of this point, Psalms 100:2-4 says, “Serve the LORD with gladness!
Come into his presence with singing!
Know that the LORD, he is God!
It is he who made us, and we are his;
we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
and his courts with praise!
Give thanks to him; bless his name!

2. Honoring and serving Him with our lives and decisions (1 Samuel 12:24)

Honoring and serving God with our lives and decisions is one of the greatest ways to glorify Him for Who He Is. The ability to do this comes from the love in our heart for Who He Is as we can read from 1 Samuel 12:24, “Only fear the LORD and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider what great things he has done for you.” Always remember that we were created in God’s image and as such, we fulfill our life purpose through a life devoted to Him (Genesis 1:26–27). After a significant period of living a life of self-indulgence, King Solomon came to the conclusion that living for oneself was useless. With this conclusion, he pointed to the fact that the ultimate purpose of man is to live a life of obedience to God (Ecclesiastes 12:13–14).

Humans are naturally sinful. It takes the sin cleansing ability of Jesus Christ for us to be found righteous in the presence of God. Thanks to Jesus Christ’s sacrifice of His own Life on the Cross at Calvary, we have a reconciled relationship with God. That is, there is no longer a sin barrier between those who are in Christ and God. When we submit our lives to Christ, we are able to glorify God in truth and in spirit. This submission comes through Sincere Repentance and obedience to the Key Teachings Of Jesus Christ. In living our lives by following the example of Jesus Christ, we are glorifying Him as well as glorying the One who sent Him (2 Corinthians 3:1–6).

Understanding Your Blessings As A Child Of God

In the New Testament, Apostle Paul affirms that God “had set me apart before I was born” (see Galatians 1:15–16). Whatever you do, always remember that God’s plans and purposes for our lives will always result in His glory. In support of this, 1 Corinthians 10:31 says, “So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.” Today, we have the ability to glorify God because He first crowned us with glory and honor (Psalms 8:4-6 and Hebrews 2:6-8). In addition to this glory and honor, God gave us dominion over the Earth (Genesis 1:28–29). By so doing, God conferred to us the task of stewarding the earth to the best of our ability and above all for the sake of His Glory.

Five Themes Of Biblical Manhood

1. A man knows the importance of self-control (Titus 2:11-12)

Titus 2:11-12 says, For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age…”

A true man values self-control. That is, he controls his emotions and passions. Whether single or married, a real man tames his passions. As a mature man, he doesn’t abuse women or children but rather protects and provides for them. Knowing where he is coming from and where he is going, he keeps his hands off a woman who is not his wife. He treats his wife with love, respect, and dignity. He teaches his household the importance of loving God and obeying His commands. Also, he protects a single woman’s virginity and innocence. He keeps his eyes off pornographic images and is not defined by his exploits below the waist. Such a man is a God-fearing man. He is a man with a heart and a conscience.

For more info, read our Bible Verses About Self Control.

2. A man provides for his household (1 Timothy 5:8)

1 Timothy 5:8 reads, “But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.” It is without a doubt that any man who does not work and provide for his household ends up with a sense of shameful feeling. That is his self-worth sinks. As a man, you must embrace work. You should learn what it takes to obtain a job, work hard, maintain high performance, and be able to meet the needs of your household. Behold, a man who is unable to keep a job, who is always moving from one job to another, or who refuses to willingly assume his family responsibilities is actually putting his household in a state of insecurity. A responsible man is one who provides for his family -emotionally, spiritually, physically, financially, and educationally.

3. A man protects his family (Proverbs 4:10-15)

Here, we’ll borrow an expression from Wayne Grudem and John Piper on the essence of masculinity: When you are lying in bed with your wife and suddenly hear the sound of a kitchen window being opened at 3 a.m., do you shake her awake and say, “The last time this occurred, I was the one who took our baseball bat and investigated to see if someone was breaking into our house. Now it’s your turn, Sweetheart. Here’s the bat!”? Obviously No! However, being a protector to your household calls for far more than just ensuring physical safety. Proverbs 4:10-15 portrays a father who protects his son by passing on wisdom, teaching him the ways of God Almighty, teaching him to reject the lies and temptations of the world, and helping him build godly character. This father is protecting even the generation to come as this wisdom will be passed on.

For more info read What The Bible Says About Fathers.

4. A man serves and leads his family (Ephesians 5:23)

While the world quickly sees serving and leading as contradictions, the Bible clearly tells us that they are inseparable. In Ephesians 5:23 where Apostle Paul says, “the husband is the head of the wife,” he quickly dismisses any notions that this leadership allows for selfish male dominance. Apostle Paul does this by completing the sentence with “as Christ also is the head of the church.” The passage goes on to say in verse 25 that husbands should love their wives “just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her” This definition of leadership is quite contrary to that offered by the world. We are trying to say here that a man is called to be a servant-leader-to take responsibility for his wife and children as he puts their needs ahead of his. Also, a man is invited to demonstrate selfless, and sacrificial love.

5. A man follows God’s design for true masculinity (Micah 6:8)

In support of this point, let’s read from Micah 6:8 – “He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” The core or essence of every man’s life should be his relationship with God the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven, and Earth. A man who goes after God’s heart knows the importance of embracing his responsibilities.

What Does The Bible Say About Man

Hebrews 2:7 – “You made him for a little while lower than the angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor,

Job 4:17 – “‘Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?

Genesis 1:27 – “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”

Genesis 1:26Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Proverbs 20:27 – “The spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all his innermost parts.

Psalm 8:6-8 – “You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.”

Isaiah 43:7 – “Everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”

Group 1 – What Does The Bible Say About Man

Psalm 33:13-15 – “The Lord looks down from heaven; he sees all the children of man; from where he sits enthroned he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth, he who fashions the hearts of them all and observes all their deeds.

Genesis 2:7 – “Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Psalm 8:4 – “What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?

Psalm 144:4 – “Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.”

James 2:26 – “For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.”

Psalm 100:3 – “Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.”

Group 2 – What Does The Bible Say About Man

Psalm 8:5 – “Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.

Psalm 8:3 – “When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,”

Hebrews 9:27 – “And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,”

Psalm 139:14 – “I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.”

Psalm 119:73 – “Your hands have made and fashioned me; give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.”

Psalm 144:3 – “O Lord, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him?

Psalm 138:8 – “The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.”

Job 4:19 – “How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.”

Group 3 – What Does The Bible Say About Man

John 4:24 – “God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Job 31:15 – “Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

Job 15:14 – “What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?

Job 14:1-5 – “Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble. He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not. And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you? Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one. Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,

Ecclesiastes 12:7 – “And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 1:8 – “All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.”

Group 4 – What Does The Bible Say About Man

1 Corinthians 15:49 – “Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.”

Job 10:9 – “Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust?

James 3:9 – “With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.”

1 Corinthians 2:11 – “For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

Group 5 – What Does The Bible Say About Man

John 3:3-8Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ …

Hebrews 4:12 – “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.”

Romans 7:14-25 – “For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. ...”

Group 6 – What Does The Bible Say About Man

Ecclesiastes 2:14 – “The wise person has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that the same event happens to all of them.”

Job 33:4 – “The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.”

Isaiah 64:8 – “But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.

Ecclesiastes 3:21 – “Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth?

Job 31:13-15 – “If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me, what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him? Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

Job 32:8 – “But it is the spirit in man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand.

Group 7 – What Does The Bible Say About Man

1 Corinthians 11:7 – “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.”

Job 25:4-6 – “How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure? Behold, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure in his eyes; how much less man, who is a maggot, and the son of man, who is a worm!

Job 10:2 – “I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.”

Malachi 2:10 – “Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

1 Corinthians 6:20 – “For you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.”

Genesis 1:28And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Group 8 – What Does The Bible Say About Man

Ecclesiastes 7:29 – “See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”

Proverbs 16:4 – “The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.”

Isaiah 42:5 – “Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it:

Acts 7:59And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

Job 35:10 – “But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,”

Genesis 9:6 – “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.

Job 10:8 – “Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether.

Job 38:4 – “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.”

Group 9 – What Does The Bible Say About Man

Genesis 9:3 – “Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.”

Job 4:18-21 – “Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error; how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth. Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it. Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?’”

1 Thessalonians 5:23 – “Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Genesis 5:2 – “Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.”

Hebrews 2:8 – “Putting everything in subjection under his feet.” Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him.”

Group 10 – What Does The Bible Say About Man

2 Corinthians 5:1-9 – “For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked. For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. …

2 Corinthians 4:6 – “For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”

2 Corinthians 4:16 – “So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.”

Galatians 3:28 – “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.”

Group 11 – What Does The Bible Say On Man

1 Corinthians 15:21 – “For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.”

Luke 23:46 – “Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.

1 Corinthians 15:48 – “As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven.

1 Corinthians 15:22 – “For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

Matthew 10:28 – “And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.”

Mark 10:6 – “But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’

Acts 17:26 – “And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,

Group 12 – What Does The Bible Say About Being A Man

Zechariah 12:1 – “The burden of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus declares the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him:

Daniel 2:38 – “And into whose hand he has given, wherever they dwell, the children of man, the beasts of the field, and the birds of the heavens, making you rule over them all—you are the head of gold.”

Matthew 23:8 – “But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers.”

Jeremiah 27:5 – “It is I who by my great power and my outstretched arm have made the earth, with the men and animals that are on the earth, and I give it to whomever it seems right to me.”

Jeremiah 28:14 – “For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put upon the neck of all these nations an iron yoke to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they shall serve him, for I have given to him even the beasts of the field.’”

Group 13 – What Does The Bible Say About Being A Man

Ecclesiastes 3:20 – “All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return.

Isaiah 45:12 – “I made the earth and created man on it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host.”

Jeremiah 27:6 – “Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant, and I have given him also the beasts of the field to serve him.”

Psalm 31:5 – “Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God.”

Job 38:13 – “That it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?

Proverbs 22:2 – “The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the maker of them all.

Isaiah 17:7 – “In that day man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel.”

Group 14 – What Does The Bible Say About Being A Man

Job 10:3 – “Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the designs of the wicked?

Job 35:2-8 – “Do you think this to be just? Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’ that you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’ I will answer you and your friends with you. Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you. If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him? ...”

Job 38:12 – “Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place,

Romans 2:29 – “But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God.”

1 Corinthians 14:14 – “For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful.”

Job 4:18 – “Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error;

Ephesians 4:4 – “There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—

Group 15 – What The Bible Says About Man

Mark 10:42-44And Jesus called them to him and said to them, “You know that those who are considered rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all.”

1 Corinthians 7:34 – “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.”

Isaiah 26:9 – “My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.”

Matthew 4:4But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Matthew 23:11 – “The greatest among you shall be your servant.”

Romans 1:9 – “For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you.”

Group 16 – What The Bible Says About Man

Ephesians 6:1-4 – “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”

Ecclesiastes 2:15 – “Then I said in my heart, “What happens to the fool will happen to me also. Why then have I been so very wise?” And I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

Matthew 20:25-28But Jesus called them to him and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave, even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

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What Does The Bible Say About Apostles?

What Does The Bible Say About Apostles

What Does The Bible Say About Apostles? An Apostle, in its most literal sense, is an emissary, from the Greek word ἀπόστολος (apóstolos), literally “one who is sent off”, from the verb ἀποστέλλειν (apostéllein), “to send off”.
The chief purpose of such sending off is usually to convey a particular message, and therefore “messenger” is a common alternative translation. Other common alternative translations include “envoy” and “ambassador.”

This term is derived from the Greek of the New Testament and was used for Jesus’s original twelve Apostles as well as a wider group of early Christian figures, including Paul, Barnabas, and Junia.

It usually refers to early associates of the founder of a religion, who played an important role in spreading his/her teachings. The word apostle has two meanings, the broader meaning of a messenger, and the narrow meaning of an early Christian Apostle directly linked to Jesus Christ. Today, the adjective apostolic (/ˌæpəˈstɒlɪk/) is strongly claimed as a continuing characteristic by many prominent Christian churches thereby leading to a wider modern application.

We can find the word in the “Apostolic See”, the official name for the Roman Catholic Papacy. Also, we can find the name in the doctrine of the Apostolic succession which is held by many branches of Christianity. It can as well be found in the Four Marks of the Church (“One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic”) found in the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed.

What Does The Bible Say About Apostles?

What The Scriptures Say About Apostles

The Christian Faith teaches that apostles were those entrusted by Jesus Christ with the task to assist in organizing the Church and spreading the message of His Key Teachings to the world. It comes from the Greek word apostello , meaning a messenger or one sent on a mission. Although not frequently used in today’s common language excerpt when pointing to Christian Principles, the word was regularly used in ancient times to describe someone who has been commissioned by another person to represent him.

In the New Testament, there are two primary usages of the word apostle. The first which is of greater value is in specifically referring to the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ. The second meaning is in generically referring to other individuals who are sent out to be messengers/ambassadors of Jesus Christ.

The Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ held a unique position. In portraying the New Jerusalem, Revelation 21:14 states, “The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.” It was these twelve apostles who were the first messengers of the Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ after His Death and Resurrection. According to Ephesians 2:20, these twelve apostles were the foundation of the church with Jesus Christ Himself being the Cornerstone. This specific type of Apostle is not present in today’s church because they had a unique task which was to lay the foundation of the Church. It is obvious that two thousand years later, we are not still working on the foundation. The qualifications of this type of apostle were:

  1. To have been a witness of the resurrected Christ (1 Corinthians 9:1)
  2. To have been clearly chosen by the Holy Spirit (Acts 9:15)
  3. Accompanied by signs and wonders (Acts 2:43; 2 Corinthians 12:12).

What Is An Apostle In The Bible?

This piece of writing won’t be complete without an answer to the question, what is an apostle in the Bible? It is important to note that beyond the unique twelve apostles of Jesus Christ, there were also apostles in a generic sense. In Acts 13:2 and 14:4, Barnabas is referred to as an “apostle”. Also, Andronicus and Junias are possibly identified as apostles in Romans 16:7. In addition, the same word translated “apostle” is used in 2 Corinthians 8:23 to refer to Titus and also used in Philippians 2:25 to refer to Epaphroditus. Hence, we can say without a doubt that there is room for the term apostle being used to refer to someone besides the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ. Anyone who was “sent” could be called an apostle.

The main question now is to know the role of an apostle outside that of the twelve apostles. Although it is not entirely clear, we’ll do our best to pour more light on the subject matter. Knowing the definition or meaning of an Apostle, we can easily link it to its closest term, missionary. In simple terms, a missionary is a follower of Jesus Christ who has been sent out with the specific mission of proclaiming the Gospel. He/she is an ambassador of Christ to everyone who has not heard of the Good News of Eternal Life. Today, many people think that it is wise not to use the term apostle to refer to any position in the church so as to avoid confusion. However, the vast majority of the occurrences of apostles in the New Testament refer to the twelve apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Are There Apostles Today?

In a broad sense, all followers of Jesus Christ are called to be apostles. That is, they have been sent out to take the Good News to those who have not yet heard of it. In following Christ, we are to be His ambassadors (Matthew 28:18-202 Corinthians 5:18-20). We are all to be “ones who are sent out” (Acts 1:8). We have all been called to be preachers of the Good News (Romans 10:15). However, it becomes a dangerous ground when a person starts equating himself in terms of spiritual authority with the twelve apostles that were chosen and taught by Jesus Christ himself. Such reflections are more likely to lead to apostasy and false doctrines. Remember that as Christians, we have only one leader and teacher, Jesus Christ. In everything, let the Holy Spirit and the Bible be our guide for Truth.

What Is The Difference Between A Disciple And An Apostle? (Disciple Vs Apostle)

It won’t make sense for us to end this piece of writing without answering the question, what is the difference between a disciple and an apostle? There is much to know about disciple vs apostle. Although the terms are often used interchangeably, there is a significant difference between an apostle and a disciple. In simple terms, we can say that a disciple is a devoted student and follower of a teacher. The Greek word for disciple is mathētḗs which means a pupil or learner. It literally means a student. A disciple is an apprentice whose main goal is to learn as much as possible from his/her teacher. In reality, Jesus Christ had many disciples who were not part of the twelve whom he chose to become apostles.

Luke 10:1 says, “The Lord now chose seventy-two other disciples and sent them ahead in pairs to all the towns and places he planned to visit.”

So, what is the difference between the disciples and those who became apostles? The difference lays on the fact that they were chosen from the other disciples and sent out on a mission. Although we are all called to spread the Good News about God’s Kingdom, not everyone is given the gift of Apostleship by the Holy Spirit. 1 Corinthians 12:27-31 clearly lists the gifts of the Holy Spirit, starting with that of Apostleship. Everyone who receives a spiritual gift is a disciple of Jesus Christ because he/she is filled with the Holy Spirit as a result of sincerely repenting and welcoming Jesus Christ in his/her life. However, it is clearly stated in 1 Corinthians 12:30 that not everyone will receive the same spiritual gifts. Thus, not every disciple ends up becoming an apostle.

The Original 12 Apostles

Jesus Christ had many disciples who were devoted to studying under Him. However, only 12 were chosen from the beginning to later go out and spread the Good News about God’s Kingdom to humanity thereby laying the foundation of the Christian church. Those whom Jesus Christ chose as apostles were later given the gifts of apostleship by the Holy Spirit when Christ ascended. We perceive that even those whom we consider as the original twelve apostles seemed to gain favor and confidence in their roles as apostles after the Pentecost when the Holy Spirit came live in them. These are the twelve whom Jesus Christ called Apostles:

  1. Simon (whom he named Peter)
  2. James
  3. John
  4. Andrew
  5. Philip
  6. Bartholomew
  7. Matthew
  8. Thomas
  9. James
  10. Thaddaeus
  11. Simon
  12. Judas Iscariot (who was later replace by Matthias)

What Is An Apostle Today?

Do Apostles still exist? Are men still called by God to be Apostles? These are some of the questions that many people will like to have answers to. The truth is that God still calls people, equip them, and send them out on the mission of growing the church of Christ. Remember that “Apostle” is clearly listed as the first in a series of gifts that believers in a community that is after God’s heart can receive from the Holy Spirit. As it was the case in the days of Jesus Christ, not everyone will receive the gift. However, as God continues to grow His Church, there will always be the need for spiritual gifts from the Holy Spirit.

Qualifications Of An Apostle (Duties Of An Apostle)

There is much to say about the qualifications to be an apostle. Can anyone be an apostle? Biblically, it seems that it is not ours to decide. What then are the requirements to be an apostle? How can one become an apostle?
Without thoroughly thinking it through, many ministers of the Gospel have often assumed that certain things make someone an apostle. Most of the time, these things are what apostles do; but not exclusively. Or still, apostles may have them, but not exclusively. Some of these things are as follows:

  • Having an international ministry.
  • Signs and Wonders.
  • Being Charismatic.
  • Being Recognized by People as an Apostle.
  • Planting Churches or having extensive missionary works.
  • And in some cases, people assume that you must have seen Jesus Christ physically to be an Apostle.

Note that all of the above-assumed qualifications are not exclusive apostles. We can support this point with the fact that many have performed great signs and wonders, had international ministries, planted churches, been called apostles, been called charismatic, and have seen the Lord, but not been an apostle. That is why we can say that none of these things are really qualifications but maybe things that apostles carryout, but without proving the calling. Is there a Biblical list of qualifications for apostles? Although the Bible provides a list of qualifications for elders (Titus 1:5-9, or 1 Tim 3:1-7) and deacons (1 Timothy 3:8), there is not in one place a single list of qualifications for Apostles.

Three Basic Qualifications Of And Apostle

Elders were appointed by apostles. Deacons were also appointed by leadership. That is why Apostle Paul wrote specifying qualifications for these church positions.
Apostles however are called by Christ, appointed by Christ, and anointed for their mission by Christ. Hence, they must declare themselves to be an apostle. It is only after this step that they are tested to actually see if they really are an apostle. Their devotion and love for Christ and believers as well as their godly character and lifestyle will testify that their call is true. Jesus Christ said, “You will know them by their fruit.”

Mark 3:14-15 it says, “He appointed twelve – designating them apostles – that they might be with him, that he might send them out to preach and to have authority to drive out demons.” 
This Biblical passage gives us three qualifications of an apostle.
Firstly, they must be people who are closed to Christ.
Secondly, they must be completely obedient and willing to be “sent ones”.
Thirdly, they will have the authority to do Christ’s work.

Other Qualifications
  • Grace on their lives. (2 Corinthians 1:12)
  • Submission to Christ – not a law unto themselves. (Philippians 2:5-8)
  • Holiness. (2 Corinthians 1:12)
  • Willingness to suffer for Christ. (Colossians 1:24-29)
  • Sincerity. (2 Corinthians 1:12)

What Does The Bible Say About Apostles

Acts 5:12-16 – “Now many signs and wonders were regularly done among the people by the hands of the apostles. And they were all together in Solomon’s Portico. None of the rest dared join them, but the people held them in high esteem. And more than ever believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women, so that they even carried out the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, that as Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on some of them. The people also gathered from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those afflicted with unclean spirits, and they were all healed.”

Mark 16:15And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.”

Mark 3:13-19 – “And he went up on the mountain and called to him those whom he desired, and they came to him. And he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and he might send them out to preach and have authority to cast out demons. He appointed the twelve: Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter); James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder); …

2 Corinthians 12:12 – “The signs of a true apostle were performed among you with utmost patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works.

Matthew 10:2-4 – “The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.

Group 1 – What Does The Bible Say About Apostles

Luke 9:1-5And he called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases, and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal. And he said to them, “Take nothing for your journey, no staff, nor bag, nor bread, nor money; and do not have two tunics. And whatever house you enter, stay there, and from there depart. And wherever they do not receive you, when you leave that town shake off the dust from your feet as a testimony against them.”

Ephesians 2:20 – “Built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,”

Matthew 19:28Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, in the new world, when the Son of Man will sit on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Ephesians 4:11 – “And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,

Acts 19:1-41 – “And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the inland country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples. And he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John’s baptism.” And Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, Jesus.” On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. …

Group 2 – What Does The Bible Say About Apostles

Acts 1:1-26 – “In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me; for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” …

Leviticus 19:31 – “Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.

Luke 9:1-5And he called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases, and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal. And he said to them, “Take nothing for your journey, no staff, nor bag, nor bread, nor money; and do not have two tunics. And whatever house you enter, stay there, and from there depart. And wherever they do not receive you, when you leave that town shake off the dust from your feet as a testimony against them.”

Acts 4:13 – “Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus.”

Group 3 – What Does The Bible Say About Apostles

Mark 16:20 – “And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by accompanying signs.]]

Mark 6:7 – “And he called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits.”

Acts 1:2 – “Until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.”

1 Corinthians 12:28 – “And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.”

Acts 1:8 – “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

Acts 2:1-47 – “When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. …

Acts 1:13 – “And when they had entered, they went up to the upper room, where they were staying, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas the son of James.”

Group 4 – What Does The Bible Say About Apostles

John 21:15-19When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.” He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep. Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, you used to dress yourself and walk wherever you wanted,

John 14:22Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?”

Hebrews 3:1 – “Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,

2 Corinthians 11:13 – “For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.”

Acts 2:38And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”

Matthew 28:19 – “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Group 5 – What Does The Bible Say About Apostles

Matthew 10:1-42 – “And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction. The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, “Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans, …

Luke 22:28-30 – “You are those who have stayed with me in my trials, and I assign to you, as my Father assigned to me, a kingdom, that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Mark 3:14 – “And he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and he might send them out to preach.

Luke 9:1 – “And he called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases,

Acts 4:33 – “And with great power the apostles were giving their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.”

Acts 2:42 – “And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.”

Group 6 – What Does The Bible Say About Apostles

Luke 6:12-16 – “In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot, and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.

1 Corinthians 9:1 – “Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord?

Matthew 10:1-4 – “And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction. The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.”

Revelation 21:14 – “And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.”

2 Peter 1:16 – “For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.”

Group 7 – What Does The Bible Say About Apostles

Matthew 16:17-19And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

Luke 9:45 – “But they did not understand this saying, and it was concealed from them, so that they might not perceive it. And they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

Ephesians 4:11-13 – “And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

John 17:1-26 – “When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed. …

Group 8 – What Does The Bible Say About Apostolic Succession

2 Peter 1:1-21 – “Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, …

Matthew 10:1 – “And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction.”

Matthew 10:4 – “Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.

Matthew 9:9As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him.

Psalm 69:25 – “May their camp be a desolation; let no one dwell in their tents.”

Group 9 – What Does The Bible Say About Apostolic Succession

Galatians 2:9 – “And when James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

Acts 5:32 – “And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

Acts 2:32 – “This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses.”

Acts 3:15 – “And you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.

Revelation 2:2 – “‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false.”

2 Timothy 2:2 – “And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

2 Timothy 2:15 – “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.”

Acts 12:1-2 – “About that time Herod the king laid violent hands on some who belonged to the church. He killed James the brother of John with the sword,

Group 10 – What Does The Bible Say About Apostles Today

Acts 1:15-26 – “In those days Peter stood up among the brothers (the company of persons was in all about 120) and said, “Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus. For he was numbered among us and was allotted his share in this ministry.” (Now this man acquired a field with the reward of his wickedness, and falling headlong he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out. And it became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the field was called in their own language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.) …

John 15:27 – “And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.”

Acts 1:21 – “So one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

Acts 1:22 – “Beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us—one of these men must become with us a witness to his resurrection.”

John 20:21 Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”

John 15:27 – “And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.”

Group 11 – What Does The Bible Say About Apostles Today

John 14:5-9Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.” Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

Luke 24:19And he said to them, “What things?” And they said to him, “Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, a man who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people,

John 20:21Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”

John 15:16 – “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.”

John 13:6-8He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?” Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.” Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.”

Group 12 – What Does The Bible Say About Apostles Today

Matthew 10:24 – “A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.

Matthew 28:19-20Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Luke 9:54And when his disciples James and John saw it, they said, “Lord, do you want us to tell fire to come down from heaven and consume them?”

Acts 17:11 – “Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.”

Luke 24:48 – “You are witnesses of these things.

Luke 10:17 The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”

Matthew 10:24 – “A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.

Acts 17:11 – “Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.”

Group 13 – What Does The Bible Say On Apostles Today

Mark 6:7-11And he called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits. He charged them to take nothing for their journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in their belts— but to wear sandals and not put on two tunics. And he said to them, “Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you depart from there. And if any place will not receive you and they will not listen to you, when you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.”

Mark 3:16-19 – “He appointed the twelve: Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter); James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder); Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.”

Group 14 – What Does The Bible Say About Apostles Today

Luke 9:44 – “Let these words sink into your ears: The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men.”

Luke 6:14 – “Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew,

Luke 6:15 – “And Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot,”

Luke 6:13 – “And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles:

Mark 3:18 – “Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean,”

Group 15 – What Does The Bible Say On Apostles Today

Revelation 2:1-29 – “To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands. “‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name’s sake, and you have not grown weary. But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. …

Group 16 – What Does The Bible Say About Apostles Today

Mark 3:15 – “And have authority to cast out demons.”

Revelation 1:1-20 – “The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. …

Group 17 – What The Bible Says About Apostles

2 Timothy 3:16 – “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,”

1 Peter 4:10 – “As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace:

1 Corinthians 12:27 – “Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.”

1 Corinthians 9:5 – “Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?

Group 18 – What The Bible Says About Apostles

1 John 1:1 – “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life—

1 John 1:1-3 – “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life— the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us— that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

Group 19 – What The Bible Says About Apostles

Acts 15:1-41But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about this question. So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers. When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they declared all that God had done with them. But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and said, …

Group 20 – What The Bible Says About Apostles Today

1 Corinthians 12:12 – “For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.”

1 Corinthians 9:2 – “If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.”

1 Corinthians 3:11 – “For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.”

Acts 14:14 – “But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of it, they tore their garments and rushed out into the crowd, crying out,

Group 21 – What The Bible Says About Apostles Today

Matthew 28:18-20And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Mark 16:17 – “And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;

Matthew 16:19 – “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

Group 22 – What The Bible Says About Apostles Today

Luke 6:13-16 – “And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot, and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.”

Acts 10:39-41 – “And we are witnesses of all that he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree, but God raised him on the third day and made him to appear, not to all the people but to us who had been chosen by God as witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.”

Group 23 – What The Bible Says About Apostolic Succession

Acts 17:10-11 – “The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.”

Galatians 1:1 – “Paul, an apostle—not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—

Matthew 17:1 – “And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves.

Matthew 10:5These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, “Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans,”

Psalm 109:8 – “May his days be few; may another take his office!

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What Does The Bible Say About Abusive Relationships?

What Does The Bible Say About Abusive Relationships

What Does The Bible Say About Abusive Relationships? When it comes to abusive husbands, abusive wives or domestic violence, there is much that the Bible says. Behold, God does not endorse domestic violence nor gives permission to any spouse to abuse the other be it physically, emotionally, psychologically or spiritually. It is God’s will that spouses enjoy their marriage in love, unity, happiness, and peace. As followers of Christ, it is our duty to strive for peace, love, happiness, unity, and holiness. Hence, if you are an abusive spouse, submit to the heart-changing power of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ. Repent and turn to God for He is willing to forgive and give you a new life in His Son. If you are being abused by your spouse, come to God in prayer for a change. Bring your load to Jesus Christ who is willing to help.

As a husband, you must not abuse your wife. The Bible calls on you to love, care, and provide for her. By so doing, God will bless you abundantly in this life and in that to come. Likewise, as a wife you must not abuse your husband. And as a leader, you must not abuse those that you are leading. In the same light, you should treat everyone with love, gentleness, and kindness. Learn to forgive. A husband plays a very important role in the family unit which was established by God. The very primary role of the husband in the Bible starts with leadership. According to 1 Timothy 3, an Overseer and Deacon must manage their family well. In a more specific way, verse 5 says, “If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God’s church?

What Does The Bible Say About Abusive Relationships

The Bible clearly tells us that anyone who does not love does not know God because God is love. And behold, one can not love and be abusive at the same time. It is our duty to love because we were first loved. Jesus Christ who willingly gave up His life on the Cross at Calvary out of love for the world did commanded all his followers to love their neighbors as they love themselves. Loving your neighbor as you love yourself is doing unto him/her what you will like to have it done to you. It is all about feeling for your neighbor the way you will like him/her to feel about you. It is about thinking of and treating your neighbors the way you will like to have them do to you.

What The Scriptures Say About Abusiveness

Matthew 7:2 – “For God will judge you in the same way as you judge others, and he will apply to you the same rules you apply to others.” Brethren, do not be surprise to hear that it will be done unto you just as you do unto others. Our thoughts, words, and actions towards others are like seeds being sowed. One day, we will have to harvest what we previously planted. And for sure, everyone will harvest just what he/she planted. In this light, the wise will sow seeds of love, kindness, compassion, forgiveness, gentleness, peace, and holiness through Christ. It’s not possible to sow seeds of hatred, jealousy, wickedness, abusiveness, and disrespect yet expect to harvest something else. Let us strive for a holy life and by the grace of God in Christ, we’ll be able to please God and benefit from His favor.

What Does The Bible Say About Abusive Relationships

1 Peter 3:7 – “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.”

Colossians 3:19 – “Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

Proverbs 22:24-25 – “Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.”

1 Corinthians 7:15 – “But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.

Proverbs 21:9 – “It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.

Proverbs 15:1-33 – “A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly. The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good. A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit. A fool despises his father’s instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent. …

Group 1 – What Does The Bible Say About Abusive Relationships

Luke 4:18-19 – “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.

Ephesians 5:25 – “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

1 Timothy 5:8 – “But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.”

Matthew 18:15-17 – “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

Titus 3:2 – “To speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people.

Group 2 – What Does The Bible Say About Abusive Relationships

Titus 3:10-11 – “As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him, knowing that such a person is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned.”

1 Timothy 3:2 – “Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

Proverbs 15:1 – “A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.”

Isaiah 43:1-28 – “But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you. Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life. Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the west I will gather you. …

Hebrews 13:4 – “Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.”

Group 3 – What Does The Bible Say About Abusive Relationships

Isaiah 41:10 – “Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Matthew 5:29 – “If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.

Proverbs 16:25 – “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.”

Matthew 5:31-32 – “It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ 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.

1 Corinthians 5:11 – “But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one.”

1 Thessalonians 5:21 – “But test everything; hold fast what is good.”

Group 4 – What Does The Bible Say About Abusive Relationships

Proverbs 20:22 – “Do not say, “I will repay evil”; wait for the Lord, and he will deliver you.

Titus 3:1 – “Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

Romans 15:13 – “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

Psalm 55:22 – “Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.”

1 Corinthians 15:33Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

Matthew 19:9 – “And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

James 1:26 – “If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless.”

1 Corinthians 7:10-11 – “To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.

Group 5 – What Does The Bible Say About Abusive Relationships

1 Corinthians 7:12-16 – “To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace. For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

James 1:26 – “If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless.”

Proverbs 21:2 – “Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart.”

Matthew 18:15 – “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.”

Ephesians 4:32 – “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.”

Proverbs 19:11 – “Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.

Psalm 34:18 – “The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.

Group 6 – What Does The Bible Say About Abusive Relationships

1 Corinthians 14:1-40 – “Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit. On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation. The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church. Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up. …

Romans 12:18 – “If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.”

Proverbs 1:1-33 – “The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth— Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, …

James 3:10 – “From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.”

Matthew 18:15 – “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

Proverbs 10:6 – “Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

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Psalm 37:3-6 – “Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act. He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.”

Psalm 37:3-4 – “Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Psalm 140:12 – “I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and will execute justice for the needy.”

Ephesians 4:31 – “Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.”

Job 19:25 – “For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.

James 5:19-20 – “My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

Romans 15:14 – “I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.

Group 8 – What Does The Bible Say About Abusive Relationships

Colossians 3:12-13 – “Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.”

1 Corinthians 7:12 – “To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her.

James 1:19-20 – “Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.”

Galatians 6:1 – “Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.”

Ephesians 4:29 – “Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.”

Psalm 11:5 – “The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.

Group 9 – What Does The Bible Say About Abusive Relationships

Matthew 19:3-9 – “And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” …

Matthew 5:32 – “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.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 – “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; …

Proverbs 10:11 – “The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

1 Peter 3:8 – “Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.”

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Proverbs 18:21 – “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

Psalm 72:14 – “From oppression and violence he redeems their life, and precious is their blood in his sight.

Malachi 2:16 – “For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”

Zephaniah 1:9 – “On that day I will punish everyone who leaps over the threshold, and those who fill their master’s house with violence and fraud.”

James 3:2 – “For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.”

James 3:17 – “But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.

James 3:6 – “And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.

James 4:8 – “Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.”

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Hebrews 10:24 – “And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,

Proverbs 13:20 – “Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

Ephesians 5:22 – “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.”

Luke 16:18 – “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

2 Corinthians 3:17 – “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.”

1 Thessalonians 5:11 – “Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.”

Ephesians 5:21 – “Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

2 Thessalonians 3:15 – “Do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.

Hebrews 13:3 – “Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.”

Group 12 – What Does The Bible Say About Abusive Relationships

1 Corinthians 5:9-13 – “I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one. For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”

Psalm 146:7 – “Who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free;

1 John 3:18 – “Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.”

2 Samuel 22:28 – “You save a humble people, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.”

Psalm 146:7 – “Who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free;

Psalm 9:9 – “The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.”

Group 13 – What Does The Bible Say On Abusive Relationships

2 Peter 1:7 – “And godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

1 Peter 3:1 – “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,

1 Peter 3:1-6 – “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, …

Hebrews 12:12 – “Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,

Group 14 – What Does The Bible Say On Abusive Relationships

2 Corinthians 3:18 – “And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 13:11 – “Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.”

1 Thessalonians 5:14 – “And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.

Galatians 6:2 – “Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.”

Exodus 20:12 – “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.”

1 Corinthians 7:4 – “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.”

2 Corinthians 6:14-15 – “Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?

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1 Corinthians 6:1-3 – “When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life!

2 Thessalonians 3:6 – “Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.”

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 – “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.”

Ephesians 6:1-3 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

Ephesians 5:3-5 – “But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

Group 16 – What Does The Bible Say About Abusive Relationships

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 – “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. …

1 John 1:9 – “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

Revelation 1:1 – “The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Ephesians 4:29 – “Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

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What Does The Bible Say About Abusive Husbands?

What Does The Bible Say About Abusive Husbands

What Does The Bible Say About Abusive Husbands? There is much worth knowing about what the Bible says about abusive husbands or domestic violence. Behold, God does not endorse domestic violence nor gives permission to any spouse to abuse the other be it physically, emotionally, psychologically or spiritually. It is God’s will that spouses enjoy their marriage in love, unity, happiness, and peace. And as followers of Christ, it is our daily duty to strive for peace, love, happiness, unity, and holiness. Hence, if you are an abusive spouse, submit to the heart-changing power of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ. Repent and turn to God for He is willing to forgive and give you a new life in His Son. If you are being abused by your spouse, come to God in prayer for a change. Bring your load to Jesus Christ who is willing to help you.

As a husband, you must not abuse your wife. The Bible calls on you to love, care, and provide for her. By so doing, God will bless you abundantly in this life and in that to come. Learn to forgive. A husband plays a very important role in the family unit which was established by God. The very primary role of the husband in the Bible starts with leadership. The Holy Scripture makes it very clear unto the understanding of everyone that a husband must be a leader of his home and maintain healthy control over his life. According to 1 Timothy 3 which speaks of two church leadership positions traditionally filled by men, an Overseer and Deacon must manage their family well. In a more specific way, verse 5 says, “If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God’s church?

What Does The Bible Say About Abusive Husbands? (Home or Domestic Violence)

Likewise, Ephesians 5:21-24 says, “Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.” In the same light, 1 Corinthians 11:3 says, “But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.”
With this in mind, we can say without a doubt that one of the primary roles of the husband in the Bible is to lead. In simple terms, leadership here means influence. A husband should influence his family in the light of God’s ways.

According to the Bible, husbands are being called to lead their families in the ways of God. As previously mentioned, leading is influencing. Note here that we are not saying that husbands are dictators but leaders. Biblically, husbands have been called to influence their wives, and families in accordance with Biblical teachings. Husbands are to exemplify, with words and actions, attributes that bring glory to God and value their spouse and offspring. In simple words, we can say that the fruits of a Biblically-based husband is a confident, strong, and spiritually mature wife and family. Provision and Protection are two very specific ways through which a husband influences his home. Although the role of the husband in the Bible starts with leadership, it also encompasses provision and protection.

What The Scriptures Say About Domestic Violence

There is no way that a husband can influence his wife if he does not care for her. He can demand and she may follow as a result, but he will never truly have her heart unless he provides for her needs, cares for her needs, and protects her both physically and spiritually. In support of this, 1 Timothy 5:8 says, “Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.” Likewise Colossians 3:19 says, “Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.” In addition, 1 Peter 3:7 reads “Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.”

The Bible tells us that God loves His daughters and the children that they bear. Whenever God gives one of His daughters to a man, He desires that the man love, care, protect, and provide for her. In no way does the Scripture teach that women and children be considered second rate or inferior to men. God finds them so special that He asks for special care to be given them; care that only Biblically-based men can provide. It is without a doubt that women are quite capable of taking care of themselves. However, God created men and women to be physically different. And due to the physical nature and strength that God gave men, He has charged them with the provision and protection of their families. However, the physical nature and strength of a man are to be managed with grace and gentleness.

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God did not create men to lord over women nor did He create women to simply sit back and wait on men. Rather, He made them complement each other through a healthy companionship. Being a good companion is one of the roles of a husband in the Bible. In fact, the role of the husband in the Bible is fulfilled through the heart of companionship.

It is in this light that Ephesians 5:25-33 says, “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church—for we are members of his body. ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’ This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.”

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God should always be the head in every relationship between a husband and a wife. This relationship in question is to be governed or based on love, sincerity, faithfulness, respect, support, forgiveness, and commitment. Both partners are to help each other, comfort each other, love each other, and live a happy life together. Such is the ideal model of marriage which is portrayed at the beginning of the Bible with the creation of Eve.

Genesis 2:20-24 says, “…But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, ‘This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called “woman,” for she was taken out of man.’ That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.”

Behold, God created men and women with natural, physical, and emotional differences. Usually where one is weak, the other is strong. Thus, a husband and wife can help each other by meeting the other person’s needs through physical and emotional intimacy.

1 Corinthians 7:2-5 addresses this, “But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband. The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife. Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

When the needs of each spouse are met rightly, the two can help each other as they live a successful relationship. Through their companionship, a husband and wife work together to grow a family. God’s plan was that every home operates under the guidance of both a husband and a wife and that through this, they raise healthy children that fear and obey His ways.

In support of this, Ephesians 6:1-3 says, “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ‘Honor your father and mother’ —which is the first commandment with a promise— ‘so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.’”

What The Bible Says About Being A Christian Husband

Truth be told, the Bible says much about being a Christian Husband that an entire book could be written on it. In fact, as of the time of putting up this article, many books have been written based on what the Bible says about being a Christian husband. Ephesians 5:15–33 clearly portrays a picture of what it means to be a Christian husband. Here, Apostle Paul speaks on what it means to be in Christ, that is, to be in a right relationship with God Almighty. Beginning in verse 23, we can read Apostle Paul’s instructions to the Christian wife whereby he explains that she is to recognize in her husband the kind of leader that Christ is to His beloved Church. In verse 25, Apostle Paul directly says the same thing to the Christian husband.

The Christian’s model for husbandly conduct is Jesus Christ Himself. In simple words, God expects Christian husbands to love their wives fully, sacrificially, and unconditionally, the same way that Christ our savior loves us. The Christian husband is expected to be willing to give everything, including his lifeblood, if necessary, for the benefit and welfare of his wife and family. God’s plan is that the husband and wife become one (Mark 10:8), so what the husband has belongs to the wife. Always remember that there is no selfishness in love (1 Corinthians 13:5); there is only giving which is made out of love. The Christian husband’s feelings for his wife should go beyond romance, infatuation, or sexual desire. Such a relationship is based on true love – the God-reflecting, God-given spirit of sacrifice.

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The Christian husband is more interested in his wife’s well-being more than his own. As a fellow-heir of eternal life, he promotes her spiritual well-being (1 Peter 3:7). Instead of asking what he can get from her, he thinks of what he can be and do for her. Ephesians 5 tells us how a loving Christian husband is the instrument of Christ’s love for his Church. Many times, a Christian husband is also a father. Whatever the case, just note that the Christian roles of a husband and father are interwoven. God created man and woman as sexual beings for a good number of reasons. One of these is the joy of perpetuating the race, of populating the entire Earth with generations of people who bear God’s name and reflect His image. The husband is the head of the family just as Christ is the head of the Church.

What Does The Bible Say About Abusive Husbands

Colossians 3:19 – “Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

Hebrews 13:4 – “Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.”

1 Peter 3:7 – “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.”

Proverbs 22:10 – “Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out, and quarreling and abuse will cease.”

Proverbs 15:1 – “A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Ephesians 5:25-29 – “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 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. 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,

Ephesians 5:25 – “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Group 1 – What Does The Bible Say About Abusive Husbands

Mark 10:2-12 – “And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ …

1 Corinthians 7:12-16 – “To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace. For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

1 John 1:9 – “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 Corinthians 7:15 – “But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.

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Malachi 2:15-16 – “Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth. “For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”

Ephesians 5:28-29 – “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,

Psalm 118:1-18 – “Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever! Let Israel say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Let the house of Aaron say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Let those who fear the Lord say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free. …

Matthew 19:3-9 – “And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” …

Group 3 – What Does The Bible Say About Abusive Husbands

1 Corinthians 7:1-11 – “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. ...”

Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 – “The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.

Ecclesiastes 9:9 – “Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.”

Psalm 55:20-21 – “My companion stretched out his hand against his friends; he violated his covenant. His speech was smooth as butter, yet war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

1 Corinthians 7:11 – “(but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.

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1 Corinthians 7:2 – “But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.”

John 3:16 – “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 6:10 – “Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, about five thousand in number.

Ephesians 5:25-33 – “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 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. 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, …

Group 5 – What Does The Bible Say About Abusive Husbands

1 Timothy 5:8 – “But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.”

1 Peter 3:7 – “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.

1 Corinthians 7:1-7 – “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. …”

Group 6 – What Does The Bible Say About Abusive Husbands

1 Peter 3:1-22 – “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, …

1 Corinthians 7:10-11 – “To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.”

Colossians 3:19 – “Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

Ephesians 5:28 – “In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Group 7 – What Does The Bible Say About Abusive Husbands

1 Corinthians 7:10-11 – “To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.

Ephesians 5:25 – “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Philippians 4:13 – “I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Genesis 3:16To 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.

1 Corinthians 11:3 – “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.”

Genesis 2:24 – “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.”

Ephesians 5:23 – “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.”

Group 8 – What Does The Bible Say About Abusive Husbands

James 1:1-27 – “James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. …

Hebrews 13:4 – “Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Ephesians 5:33 – “However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”

Ephesians 5:31 – “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.

Colossians 3:18 – “Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Ephesians 5:22-33 – “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. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, …

Group 9 – What Does The Bible Say To Abusive Husbands

Proverbs 18:22 – “He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.”

Ephesians 5:22-24 – “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.

1 Peter 3:1 – “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,

Proverbs 16:1 – “The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.

Ephesians 5:22 – “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.”

Ephesians 5:1-33 – “Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. …”

Group 10 – What Does The Bible Say On Abusive Husbands

Colossians 3:18-19 – “Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

1 Corinthians 10:13 – “No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Matthew 5:28 – “But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

1 Corinthians 7:2 – “But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.”

Ephesians 4:32 – “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.”

Proverbs 19:14 – “House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.”

Matthew 19:4-6He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Ephesians 6:4 – “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

1 Peter 4:8 – “Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

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Bible Verses About Husbands Providing

Bible Verses About Husbands Providing

There are many Bible Verses About Husbands Providing worth knowing by Christians. A husband plays a very important role in the family unit which was established by God. The very primary role of the husband in the Bible starts with leadership. The Holy Scripture makes it very clear unto the understanding of everyone that a husband must be a leader of his home and maintain healthy control over his life. According to 1 Timothy 3 which speaks of two church leadership positions traditionally filled by men, an Overseer and Deacon must manage their family well. In a more specific way, verse 5 says, “If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God’s church?

Likewise, Ephesians 5:21-24 says, “Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.” In the same light, 1 Corinthians 11:3 says, “But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.”
With this in mind, we can say without a doubt that one of the primary roles of the husband in the Bible is to lead. In simple terms, leadership here means influence. A husband should influence his family in the light of God’s ways.

Bible Verses About Husbands Providing

According to the Bible, husbands are being called to lead their families in the ways of God. As previously mentioned, leading is influencing. Note here that we are not saying that husbands are dictators but leaders. Biblically, husbands have been called to influence their wives, and families in accordance with Biblical teachings. Husbands are to exemplify, with words and actions, attributes that bring glory to God and value their spouse and offspring. In simple words, we can say that the fruits of a Biblically-based husband is a confident, strong, and spiritually mature wife and family. Provision and Protection are two very specific ways through which a husband influences his home. Although the role of the husband in the Bible starts with leadership, it also encompasses provision and protection.

There is no way that a husband can influence his wife if he does not care for her. He can demand and she may follow as a result, but he will never truly have her heart unless he provides for her needs, cares for her needs, and protects her both physically and spiritually. In support of this, 1 Timothy 5:8 says, “Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.” Likewise Colossians 3:19 says, “Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.” In addition, 1 Peter 3:7 reads “Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.”

What The Scriptures Say About Husbands Providing

The Bible tells us that God loves His daughters and the children that they bear. Whenever God gives one of His daughters to a man, He desires that the man love, care, protect, and provide for her. In no way does the Scripture teach that women and children be considered second rate or inferior to men. God finds them so special that He asks for special care to be given them; care that only Biblically-based men can provide. It is without a doubt that women are quite capable of taking care of themselves. However, God created men and women to be physically different. And due to the physical nature and strength that God gave men, He has charged them with the provision and protection of their families. However, the physical nature and strength of a man are to be managed with grace and gentleness.

God did not create men to lord over women nor did He create women to simply sit back and wait on men. Rather, He made them complement each other through a healthy companionship. Being a good companion is one of the roles of a husband in the Bible. In fact, the role of the husband in the Bible is fulfilled through the heart of companionship.

It is in this light that Ephesians 5:25-33 says, “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church—for we are members of his body. ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’ This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.”

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God should always be the head in every relationship between a husband and a wife. This relationship in question s to be governed or based on love, sincerity, faithfulness, respect, support, forgiveness, and commitment. Both partners are to help each other, comfort each other, love each other, and live a happy life together. Such is the ideal model of marriage which is portrayed at the beginning of the Bible with the creation of Eve.

Genesis 2:20-24 says, “…But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, ‘This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called “woman,” for she was taken out of man.’ That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.”

Behold, God created men and women with natural, physical, and emotional differences. Usually where one is weak, the other is strong. Thus, a husband and wife can help each other by meeting the other person’s needs through physical and emotional intimacy.

1 Corinthians 7:2-5 addresses this, “But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband. The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife. Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

When the needs of each spouse are met rightly, the two can help each other as they live a successful relationship. Through their companionship, a husband and wife work together to grow a family. God’s plan was that every home operates under the guidance of both a husband and a wife and that through this, they raise healthy children that fear and obey His ways.

In support of this, Ephesians 6:1-3 says, “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ‘Honor your father and mother’ —which is the first commandment with a promise— ‘so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.’”

What The Bible Says About Husbands Providing

Truth be told, the Bible says much about being a Christian Husband that an entire book could be written on it. In fact, as of the time of putting up this article, many books have been written based on what the Bible says about being a Christian husband. Ephesians 5:15–33 clearly portrays a picture of what it means to be a Christian husband. Here, Apostle Paul speaks on what it means to be in Christ, that is, to be in a right relationship with God Almighty. Beginning in verse 23, we can read Apostle Paul’s instructions to the Christian wife whereby he explains that she is to recognize in her husband the kind of leader that Christ is to His beloved Church. In verse 25, Apostle Paul directly says the same thing to the Christian husband.

The Christian’s model for husbandly conduct is Jesus Christ Himself. In simple words, God expects Christian husbands to love their wives fully, sacrificially, and unconditionally, the same way that Christ our savior loves us. The Christian husband is expected to be willing to give everything, including his lifeblood, if necessary, for the benefit and welfare of his wife and family. God’s plan is that the husband and wife become one (Mark 10:8), so what the husband has belongs to the wife. Always remember that there is no selfishness in love (1 Corinthians 13:5); there is only giving which is made out of love. The Christian husband’s feelings for his wife should go beyond romance, infatuation, or sexual desire. Such a relationship is based on true love – the God-reflecting, God-given spirit of sacrifice.

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The Christian husband is more interested in his wife’s well-being more than his own. As a fellow-heir of eternal life, he promotes her spiritual well-being (1 Peter 3:7). Instead of asking what he can get from her, he thinks of what he can be and do for her. Ephesians 5 tells us how a loving Christian husband is the instrument of Christ’s love for his Church. Many times, a Christian husband is also a father. Whatever the case, just note that the Christian roles of a husband and father are interwoven. God created man and woman as sexual beings for a good number of reasons. One of these is the joy of perpetuating the race, of populating the entire Earth with generations of people who bear God’s name and reflect His image. The husband is the head of the family just as Christ is the head of the Church.

Bible Verses About Husbands Providing

1 Timothy 5:8 – “But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.”

Ephesians 5:25-33 – “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 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. 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, …

1 Peter 3:7 – “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.

1 Corinthians 7:1-7 – “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. …”

Group 1 – What The Bible Says About Husbands Providing

1 Peter 3:1-22 – “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, …

1 Corinthians 7:10-11 – “To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.”

Ephesians 5:28 – “In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

1 Corinthians 7:10-11 – “To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.

Colossians 3:19 – “Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

Philippians 4:13 – “I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Ephesians 5:25 – “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Group 2 – What The Bible Says About Husbands Providing

1 Corinthians 11:3 – “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.”

Ephesians 5:23 – “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.”

Genesis 3:16To 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.

Genesis 2:24 – “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.”

Ephesians 5:33 – “However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”

Ephesians 5:31 – “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.

James 1:1-27 – “James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. …

Hebrews 13:4 – “Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Group 3 – What The Bible Says About Husbands Providing

Colossians 3:18 – “Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Ephesians 5:22-33 – “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. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, …

Proverbs 18:22 – “He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.”

Proverbs 16:1 – “The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.

Ephesians 5:22 – “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.”

Ephesians 5:22-24 – “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.

1 Peter 3:1 – “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,

Group 4 – What The Bible Says About Husbands Providing

Ephesians 5:1-33 – “Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. …”

Colossians 3:18-19 – “Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

1 Corinthians 7:2 – “But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.”

Ephesians 4:32 – “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.”

1 Corinthians 10:13 – “No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Matthew 5:28 – “But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Group 5 – Bible Verses About Husbands Providing

Matthew 19:4-6He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Ephesians 6:4 – “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Proverbs 19:14 – “House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.”

1 Peter 4:8 – “Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

Ephesians 5:25-29 – “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 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. 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,

Titus 2:5 – “To be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.”

Group 6 – Bible Verses About Husbands Providing

Romans 6:19 – “I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.”

Ephesians 5:21 – “Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.”

Ecclesiastes 9:9 – “Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.”

Matthew 5:32 – “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.”

Jeremiah 29:11 – “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Romans 5:8 – “But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Matthew 19:5 – “And said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?

Ecclesiastes 4:9-11 – “Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone?

Group 7 – Bible Verses About Husbands Providing

Proverbs 5:18-19 – “Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.”

1 Peter 3:6 – “As Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.”

Titus 1:6 – “If anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination.

Psalm 23:1 – “A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

Romans 8:28 – “And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

1 Timothy 2:12 – “I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.”

Malachi 3:1-18 – “Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts. But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap. He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord. Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord as in the days of old and as in former years…”

Group 8 – Bible Verses About Husbands Providing

Proverbs 22:29 – “Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.”

Ecclesiastes 4:12 – “And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Psalm 118:6 – “The Lord is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

Proverbs 14:1 – “The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.

Proverbs 20:6-7 – “Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful man who can find? The righteous who walks in his integrity— blessed are his children after him!

Genesis 2:23Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”

Deuteronomy 24:5 – “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.

1 Timothy 3:12 – “Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well.”

Titus 2:4-5 – “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.”

Group 9 – Bible Verses About Husbands Providing

Revelation 1:1-20 – “The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. …

1 Peter 3:1-6 – “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, …

Group 10 – Bible Verses About Husbands Providing

Philippians 1:9-10 – “And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,

Colossians 3:14 – “And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

Ephesians 6:1-24 – “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, …

Ephesians 5:26 – “That he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

Ephesians 5:21-24 – “Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. 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.”

Ephesians 5:26-27 – “That he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 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.”

Ephesians 5:24 – “Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.”

Group 11 – Bible Verses About Husbands Providing

Ephesians 4:1-32 – “I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, …

Ephesians 4:2-3 – “With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”

Ephesians 5:22-23 – “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.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 – “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; …

Ephesians 1:22 – “And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church,

Ephesians 4:1-2 – “I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Group 12 – Bible Verses About Husbands Providing

1 Corinthians 7:10 – “To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband.

1 Corinthians 13:5 – “Or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

1 Corinthians 7:5 – “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.

1 Corinthians 11:9 – “Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.”

Group 13 – Bible Verses About Husbands Providing

1 Corinthians 7:3 – “The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.

Mark 10:9 – “What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.

Romans 5:10 – “For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

John 3:16 – “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”

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Luke 16:1-31 – “He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions. And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ And the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses.’ So, summoning his master’s debtors one by one, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ …

Proverbs 15:33 – “The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor.

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Song of Solomon 7:7-12 – “Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters. I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its fruit. Oh may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples, and your mouth like the best wine. It goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding over lips and teeth. I am my beloved’s, and his desire is for me. Come, my beloved, let us go out into the fields and lodge in the villages; …”

Proverbs 13:20 – “Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

Mark 10:6-9 – “But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

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Proverbs 5:19 – “A lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.”

Proverbs 12:4 – “An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.

Psalm 28:7 – “The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.

Proverbs 1:8 – “Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching,

Proverbs 5:18 – “Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,

Group 17 – Bible Verses On Husbands Providing

Psalm 23:1-6 – “A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. …

Psalm 127:3-5 – “Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.”

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Joshua 24:15 – “And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

Genesis 2:20-25 – “The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. …

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Jeremiah 29:1-32 – “These are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders of the exiles, and to the priests, the prophets, and all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. This was after King Jeconiah and the queen mother, the eunuchs, the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metal workers had departed from Jerusalem. The letter was sent by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. It said: “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce. …

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What Should I Look For In A Husband?

What Should I Look For In A Husband

What Should I Look For In A Husband? What should I be looking for in a husband? What does the Bible say about finding a husband? According to Acts 13:22, a Christian woman in search of a husband should go for a man “after God’s own heart”. It is important to understand here that the most important relationship that any of us can have is that with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This is the relationship that should always come before all others. The truth is that if our vertical relationship with God is healthy, then our horizontal relationship will definitely reflect this very reality. With this in mind, we can say without doubt that a potential husband should be a man who has his focus upon walking in the light of obedience to God’s Word.

As a Christian woman in search of a husband, it is recommended to go for a man who seeks to live his life in a way that brings glory to God’s Holy Name (1 Corinthians 10:31). However, there are other qualities worth looking for in a man with whom you want to settle down. In 1 Timothy 3, Apostle Paul clearly gives us the qualities to look for in a man or potential Christian husband. This passage in question holds the qualifications for a leader in the church body. These qualities are to grace the life of every man who goes “after God’s heart.” A potential Christian husband should display in his thoughts, words, and actions the love for God, and his neighbor. In his nature should be found compassion, a forgiving heart, loving heart, caring heart, generous heart, and the desire to do God’s will.

What Should I Be Looking For In A Husband?

The Bible holds more qualities to look for in a potential husband. These qualities from 1 Timothy 3 can be paraphrased in the light of God’s Ways as follows: “a man should be patient and controlled in his demeanor, able to master his emotions, not filled with pride but of sober mental attitude, able to patiently teach, not prone to violence, given to graciousness to others, not given to drunkenness or uncontrolled use of any of God’s gifts, not apt to be a hot-head or be thin-skinned so that he takes offense easily, not overly focused upon the details of life but focused upon God, and grateful for what God has given him, rather than envious of what gifts others have received.” These are the qualities of a man who is actively working his way towards maturity in the faith.

A man with the above mentioned qualities is a potential husband for a Christian woman. Of course, physical attraction, complementary strengths, similar interests, and the desire to have children are things to consider too. However, these things should come in a secondary position to the spiritual qualities that a woman should look for in a man. Worth noting here is the fact that a man you can love, trust, respect, and follow in the path of godliness is of far greater value than a man of fame, good looks, money, or power.

What Does The Scriptures Say About What To Look For In A Husband ?

There is much that the Scriptures say about finding a husband. According to the Scriptures, when “looking” for a husband, we must be surrendered to God’s will in our lives. Although every woman desires to find her “prince charming,” the reality is that she’ll likely end up marrying a man with as many flaws as she has. Then, by God’s grace, both will spend the rest of their lives learning what it takes to be a partner to, and servant of, each other. As a Christian woman, avoid entering into the second most important relationship of your life (marriage) under an emotional cloud. It is advisable to enter into marriage with your eyes wide open. Don’t allow emotions to cloud your sense of reason. Be still, ascertain yourself that you are making the right decision, one out of genuine love and not interest or ego, before you get into marriage.

What Should I Look For In A Husband?

Psalm 27:14 – “Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!

Proverbs 18:22 – “He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.”

Genesis 2:24 – Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Genesis 2:18Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 – “Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.”

Isaiah 34:16 – “Seek and read from the book of the Lord: Not one of these shall be missing; none shall be without her mate. For the mouth of the Lord has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.”

Group 1 – What Should I Look For In A Husband?

Isaiah 62:4 – “You shall no more be termed Forsaken, and your land shall no more be termed Desolate, but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her, and your land Married; for the Lord delights in you, and your land shall be married.

2 Peter 3:9 – “The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.”

Matthew 7:7 – “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

Proverbs 31:10-12 – “An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.”

Jeremiah 33:3 – “Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.”

2 Corinthians 6:14 – “Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Group 2 – What Should I Look For In A Husband?

James 1:17 – “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Psalm 68:6 – “God settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

1 Corinthians 7:39 – “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.”

1 Thessalonians 4:1-18 – “Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more. For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God; …

Proverbs 31:10 – “An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.”

Group 3 – What Should I Look For In A Husband?

Isaiah 40:31 – “But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.”

Matthew 19:6 – “So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.

1 Corinthians 7:9 – “But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.”

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 – “Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

1 John 2:27 – “But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.

Group 4 – What Should I Look For In A Husband?

Romans 8:28 – “And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.”

Psalm 37:4 – “Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Colossians 3:19 – “Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.”

1 Corinthians 13:7 – “Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”

Matthew 19:3-9 – “And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” …

Psalm 56:3 – “When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.”

Group 5 – What Should I Look For In A Husband?

Luke 16:18 – “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

Matthew 5:31-32“It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ 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.”

Joel 2:25 – “I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you.

1 Peter 3:7 – “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.”

Philippians 1:6 – “And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

Group 6 – What Should I Look For In A Husband?

Hebrews 13:4 – “Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.”

Hebrews 10:23 – “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.”

Ephesians 1:11 – “In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,

Mark 10:2-12 – “And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ …

Genesis 1:27 – “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Ephesians 5:25 – “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,”

Group 7 – What Should I Look For In A Husband?

Isaiah 46:9-10 – “Remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’

Deuteronomy 24:5 – “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.

James 1:5 – “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.”

Ephesians 5:23 – “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.”

Matthew 19:1-30 – “Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there. And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? …

Group 8 – What Should I Look For In A Husband?

Colossians 1:1-29 – “Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, …

Proverbs 12:4 – “An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.”

1 Corinthians 11:3 – “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.”

Matthew 19:5 – “And said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?”

Psalm 100:4 – “Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name!

Group 9 – What Should I Look For In A Husband?

Proverbs 19:14 – “House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Ephesians 4:32 – “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

1 Peter 4:8 – “Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.”

Colossians 3:14 – “And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

Ephesians 5:22-33 – “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. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, …

1 Timothy 5:8 – “But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Group 10 – What Should I Look For In A Husband?

1 Timothy 3:1-16 – “The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s church? …

Jeremiah 29:11 – “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”

Matthew 19:4-6He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Colossians 3:18-19 – “Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.”

Ephesians 5:28 – “In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.”

Group 11 – What Should I Look For In A Husband?

Revelation 1:1-20 – “The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. …”

John 3:16 – “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”

Psalm 102:13 – “You will arise and have pity on Zion; it is the time to favor her; the appointed time has come.”

Mark 10:9 – “What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

1 Corinthians 7:2 – “But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.”

Group 12 – What Should I Look For In A Husband?

Colossians 2:1-23 – “For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. …

Matthew 5:32 – “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.

1 Corinthians13:1-13 – “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;

Group 13 – What Should I Look For In A Husband?

1 Thessalonians 4:4 – “That each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,

Philippians 1:9-10 – “And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,

Proverbs 3:3-4 – “Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.”

Ephesians 5:31 – “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.

1 Corinthians 7:10 – “To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband

1 Thessalonians 5:17 – “Pray without ceasing,

Genesis 3:16To 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.”

Group 14 – What Should I Look For In A Husband?

Matthew 5:28 – “But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”

Ephesians 6:4 – “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”

Proverbs 30:18-19 – “Three things are too wonderful for me; four I do not understand: the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a virgin.”

Ephesians 5:25-29 – “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 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. 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,

Ephesians 4:1-2 – “I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Group 15 – What Should I Look For In A Husband?

Matthew 19:9 – “And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

Romans 5:8 – “But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

John 14:15 – “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Titus 1:6 – “If anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination.

1 Peter 3:1 – “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,”

John 14:1 – “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.”

2 Peter 3:18 – “But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.”

Ephesians 5:3 – “But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.”

Group 16 – What Should I Look For In A Husband?

Hebrews 13:5 – “Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.””

Colossians 3:18 – “Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 13:13 – “So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”

Hebrews 11:6 – “And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.”

Ephesians 5:26-27 – “That he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 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.

Colossians 3:2 – “Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.”

1 Timothy 3:12 – “Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well.”

Group 17 – What Should I Look For In A Husband?

Matthew 19:3And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?”

Colossians 4:1-18 – “Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison— that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak. Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. …”

Ephesians 5:1-33 – “Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. …

Matthew 19:12 – “For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let the one who is able to receive this receive it.”

Group 18 – What Should I Look For In A Husband?

Colossians 3:1-25 – “If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. …

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