Bible verses about "being a man" | Coverdale

⁶ Be manly and stroge, feare not, and be not afrayed of them. For the LORDE thy God himselfe shal go with the, and shal not fayle the, ner forsake the.

²³ The LORDE ordreth a good mans goinge, & hath pleasure in his waye.

¹ Blessed is the man yt feareth the LORDE, & hath greate delite in his commaundementes. ² His sede shall be mightie vpon earth, the generacion of the faithfull shalbe blessed. ³ Riches & pleteousnesse shalbe in his house, & his rightuousnes endureth for euer. ⁴ Vnto the godly there ariseth vp light in the darcknesse: he is merciful, louynge & rightuous. ⁵ Wel is him that is mercifull, & lendeth gladly, & podreth his wordes wt discrecion. ⁶ For he shal neuer be moued, the rightuous shal be had in an euerlastinge remembraunce. ⁷ He wil not be afrayed for eny euell tydinges, his herte stondeth fast, & beleueth in ye LORDE. ⁸ His herte is stablished, he wil not shrencke, vntill he se his desyre vpon his enemies. ⁹ He hath sparsed abrode, & geue to the poore, his rightuousnes remayneth for euer, his horne shalbe exalted wt honor. ¹⁰ The vngodly shal se it, & it shal greue him: he shall gnash wt his teth & consume awaye, & the desyre of the vngodly shal perish.

⁸ I wil shewe the (O ma) what is good, and what the LORDE requyreth off the: Namely, to do right, to haue pleasure in louynge kyndnesse, to be lowly, and to walke with thy God:

²² Let the wemen submytte them selues vnto their hussbandes, as vnto the LORDE. ²³ For the hussbande is the wyues heade, eue as Christ also is the heade of the congregacion, and he is the Sauioure of his body. ²⁴ Therfore as the congregacion is in subieccion to Christ, likewyse let the wyues be in subieccion to their hussbandes in all thinges. ²⁵ Ye hussbandes loue youre wyues, euen as Christ loued the congregacion, and gaue himselfe for it,

¹² Let no man despyse yi youth, but be thou vnto them that beleue, an ensample, in worde, in couersacion, in loue, in ye sprete, in faith, in purenesse.

¹³ Watch ye, stonde fast in the faith, quyte you like men, and be stronge:

¹³ I can do all thinges thorow Christ, which stregtheth me.

¹² But aboue all thinges my brethre, sweare not, nether by heaue, nether by earth, nether by eny other othe. Let youre ye be ye, and yor naye naye: lest ye faule in to ypocricy.

⁵ Likewyse ye yoger submytte youre selues vnto the elder. Submytte youre selues euery man one to another, and knyt yor selues together in lowlynes of mynde. For God resisteth the proude, but geueth grace to the humble. ⁶ Submytte yor selues therfore vnder the mightie hande of God, that he maye exalte you whan the tyme is come. ⁷ Cast all youre care on him, for he careth for you. ⁸ Be sober and watch, for yor aduersary ye deuell, walketh aboute as a roaringe lyon, sekynge whom he maye deuoure, ⁹ whome resiste stedfast in the faith, and knowe, that youre brethren in the worlde haue euen the same affliccions. ¹⁰ But ye God of all grace, which hath called you to his euerlastinge glory in Christ Iesu, shal his owne selfe make you perfecte, which suffre a litle season: eue he shal settle, strength, and stablish you.

⁹ Lo, I haue commaunded the to be stronge and bolde. Feare not, and be not afrayed: for the LORDE thy God is with ye, whither so euer thou goest.

¹⁷ Like as one yro whetteth another, so doth one man comforte another.

⁸ But yf there be eny man that prouydeth not for his awne, and specially for them of his houssholde, the same hath denyed the faith, and is worse then an infydele.

¹¹ But thou man of God, flye soche thinges: folowe righteousnes, godlynes, faith, loue, pacience, mekenes:

⁹ Where withall shall a yonge man clense his waye? Euen by rulinge himself after thy worde. ¹⁰ With my whole herte do I seke ye, O let me not go wronge out of thy comaundemetes. ¹¹ Thy wordes haue I hyd within my herte, yt I shulde not synne agaynst the. ¹² Praysed be thou O LORDE, O teach me thy statutes. ¹³ With my lippes wil I be tellynge out all the iudgmentes of thy mouth. ¹⁴ I haue as greate delite in the waye of thy testimonies, as in all maner of riches. ¹⁵ I wil exercise my self in thy comaundementes, & haue respecte vnto thy fotepathes. ¹⁶ My delite shalbe in thy statutes, I will not forget thy wordes.

¹¹ Whan I was a childe, I spake as a childe, I vnderstode as a childe, I ymagined as a childe. But as soone as I was a man, I put awaye childishnes.

⁷ Aboue all thinge shewe thy selfe an ensample off good workes, with vncorrupte doctryne, with honestye, with the wholsome

¹ O blessed is ye man, yt goeth not in the councell of ye vngodly: yt abydeth not in the waye off synners, & sytteth not in ye seate of the scornefull. ² But delyteth in the lawe of ye LORDE, & exercyseth himself in his lawe both daye and night. ³ Soch a ma is like a tre plated by ye watersyde, yt brigeth forth his frute in due season. His leeues shal not fall off, ad loke what soeuer he doth, it shal prospere. ⁴ As for the vngodly, it is not so with them: but they are like the dust, which ye wynde scatereth awaye from of the grounde. ⁵ Therfore the vngodly shall not be able to stonde in the iudgmet, nether the synners in the congregacion off the rightuous. ⁶ For the LORDE aloweth ye waye of the rightuous, but the waye of the vngodly shal perishe.

¹³ Watch ye, stonde fast in the faith, quyte you like men, and be stronge: ¹⁴ let all youre thinges be done in loue.