Bible Verses about “the role of the man”
The Bible contains 22 verses about the role of the man across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.”
“¶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.”
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;”
“Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with [them] according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.”
“That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.”
“¶ And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.”
“For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.”
“[To be] discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.”
“But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.”
“Husbands, love [your] wives, and be not bitter against them.”
“That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,”
“¶ 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.”
“The aged women likewise, that [they be] in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;”
“But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.”
“One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;”
“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.”
“¶ Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.”
“¶ The ungodly [are] not so: but [are] like the chaff which the wind driveth away.”
“Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.”
“For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.”
“¶ Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.”