Bible Verses about “manliness”
The Bible contains 21 verses about manliness across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;”
“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”
“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.”
“So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.”
“That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,”
“That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.”
“Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God [is] with thee whithersoever thou goest.”
“¶ Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.”
“But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.”
“And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.”
“¶ Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.”
“Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.”
“¶ Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.”
“Let all your things be done with charity.”
“¶ He that [hath] no rule over his own spirit [is like] a city [that is] broken down, [and] without walls.”
“Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.”
“[As for] my people, children [are] their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause [thee] to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.”
“I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man;”
“Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.”
“¶ Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying,”
“And of the children of Issachar, [which were men] that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them [were] two hundred; and all their brethren [were] at their commandment.”