Bible verses about "manhood" | Wycliffe

²⁷ And God made of nouyt a man to his ymage and liknesse; God made of nouyt a man, to the ymage of God; God made of nouyt hem, male and female.

¹ Blessid is the man, that yede not in the councel of wickid men; and stood not in the weie of synneris, and sat not in the chaier of pestilence. ² But his wille is in the lawe of the Lord; and he schal bithenke in the lawe of hym dai and nyyt. ³ And he schal be as a tree, which is plauntid bisidis the rennyngis of watris; which tre schal yyue his fruyt in his tyme. And his leef schal not falle doun; and alle thingis which euere he schal do schulen haue prosperite. ⁴ Not so wickid men, not so; but thei ben as dust, which the wynd castith awei fro the face of erthe. ⁵ Therfor wickid men risen not ayen in doom; nethir synneres in the councel of iust men. ⁶ For the Lord knowith the weie of iust men; and the weie of wickid men schal perische.

⁹ The herte of a man schal dispose his weie; but it perteyneth to the Lord to dresse hise steppis.

⁸ Y schal schewe to thee, thou man, what is good, and what the Lord axith of thee; forsothe for to do doom, and for to loue merci, and be bisi for to walke with thi God.

¹¹ Whanne Y was a litil child, Y spak as a litil child, Y vndurstood as a litil child, Y thouyte as a litil child; but whanne Y was maad a man, Y auoidide tho thingis that weren of a litil child.

¹ Therfor be ye foloweris of God, as moost dereworthe sones; ² and walke ye in loue, as Crist louyde vs, and yaf hym silf for vs an offryng and a sacrifice to God, in to the odour of swetnesse. ³ And fornycacioun, and al vnclennesse, or aueryce, be not named among you, as it bicometh holi men; ⁴ ethir filthe, or foli speche, or harlatrye, that perteyneth not to profit, but more doyng of thankyngis. ⁵ For wite ye this, and vndurstonde, that ech letchour, or vnclene man, or coueytouse, that serueth to mawmetis, hath not eritage in the kingdom of Crist and of God. ⁶ No man disseyue you bi veyn wordis; for whi for these thingis the wraththe of God cam on the sones of vnbileue. ⁷ Therfor nyle ye be maad parteneris of hem. ⁸ For ye weren sum tyme derknessis, but now `ye ben liyt in the Lord. Walke ye as the sones of liyt. <sup>9</sup> For the fruyt of liyt is in al goodnesse, and riytwisnesse, and treuthe. <sup>10</sup> And preue ye what `thing is wel plesynge to God. ¹¹ And nyle ye comyne to vnfruytouse werkis of derknessis; but more repreue ye. ¹² For what thingis ben don of hem in priuy, it is foule, yhe, to speke. ¹³ And alle thingis that ben repreuyd of the liyt, ben opynli schewid; for al thing that is schewid, is liyt. ¹⁴ For which thing he seith, Rise thou that slepist, and rise vp fro deth, and Crist schal liytne thee. ¹⁵ Therfor, britheren, se ye, hou warli ye schulen go; ¹⁶ not as vnwise men, but as wise men, ayenbiynge tyme, for the daies ben yuele. ¹⁷ Therfor nyle ye be maad vnwise, but vndurstondynge which is the wille of God. ¹⁸ And nyle ye be drunkun of wyn, in which is letcherie, but be ye fillid with the Hooli Goost; and speke ye to you silf in salmes, ¹⁹ and ymnes, and spiritual songis, syngynge and seiynge salm in youre hertis to the Lord; ²⁰ euermore doynge thankingis for alle thingis in the name of oure Lord Jhesu Crist to God and to the fadir. ²¹ Be ye suget togidere in the drede of Crist. ²² Wymmen, be thei suget to her hosebondis, ²³ as to the Lord, for the man is heed of the wymman, as Crist is heed of the chirche; he is sauyour of his bodi. ²⁴ But as the chirche is suget to Crist, so wymmen to her hosebondis in alle thingis. ²⁵ Men, loue ye youre wyues, as Crist louyde the chirche, and yaf hym silf for it, to make it holi; ²⁶ and clenside it with the waisching of watir, in the word of lijf, ²⁷ to yyue the chirche gloriouse to hym silf, that it hadde no wem, ne ryueling, or ony siche thing, but that it be hooli and vndefoulid. ²⁸ So and men `schulen loue her wyues, as her owne bodies. He that loueth his wijf, loueth hym silf; ²⁹ for no man hatide euere his owne fleisch, but nurischith and fostrith it, as Crist doith the chirche. ³⁰ And we ben membris of his bodi, of his fleisch, and of his boonys. ³¹ For this thing a man schal forsake his fadir and modir, and he schal drawe to his wijf; and thei schulen be tweyne in o fleisch. ³² This sacrament is greet; yhe, Y seie in Crist, and in the chirche. ³³ Netheles ye alle, ech man loue his wijf as hym silf; and the wijf drede hir hosebonde.

²⁵ Men, loue ye youre wyues, as Crist louyde the chirche, and yaf hym silf for it, to make it holi;

²¹ Be ye suget togidere in the drede of Crist.

¹⁵ Bisili kepe to yyue thi silf a preued preisable werkman to God, with oute schame, riytli tretinge the word of treuthe.

⁸ For if ony man hath not cure of his owne, and most of hise household men, he hath denyed the feith, and is worse than an vnfeithful man.

² Y entre in to the weie of al erthe; be thou coumfortid, and be thou a strong man. ³ And kepe thou the kepyngis and heestis of thi Lord God, that thou go in hise weies, and kepe hise cerymonyes, and hise heestis, and hise domes, and witnessyngis, as it is writun in the lawe of Moises; that thou vndurstonde alle thingis whiche thou doist, and whidur euer thou schalt turne thee. ⁴ That the Lord conferme hise wordis, whiche the Lord spak of me, and seide, If thi sones kepen my weies, and goen bifor me in treuthe, in al her herte, and in al her soule, a man schal not be takun awei of thee fro the trone of Israel.

⁷ Also men dwelle togidre, and bi kunnyng yyue ye onoure to the wommanus freeltee, as to the more feble, and as to euen eiris of grace and of lijf, that youre preieris be not lettid.

¹³ Walke ye, and stonde ye in the feith; do ye manli, and be ye coumfortid in the Lord, ¹⁴ and be alle youre thingis don in charite.