Bible verses about "relationship" | Twentieth_Century

¹⁶ Surely you know that, when you offer yourselves as servants, to obey any one, you are the servants of the person whom you obey, whether the service be that of Sin which leads to Death, or that of Duty which leads to Righteousness.

¹ Imitate me, as I myself imitate Christ. ² I praise you, indeed, because you never forget me, and are keeping my injunctions in mind, exactly as I laid them upon you. ³ But I am anxious that you should understand that the Christ is the Head of every man, that man is the Head of woman, and that God is the Head of the Christ. ⁴ Any man who keeps his head covered, when praying or preaching in public, dishonors him who is his Head; ⁵ While any woman, who prays or preaches in public bare-headed, dishonors him who is her Head; for that is to make herself like one of the shameless women who shave their heads. ⁶ Indeed, if a woman does not keep her head covered, she may as well cut her hair short. But, since to cut her hair short, or shave it off, marks her as one of the shameless women, let her keep her head covered. ⁷ A man ought not to have his head covered, for he has been from the beginning 'the likeness of God' and the reflection of his glory, but woman is the reflection of man's glory. ⁸ For it was not man who was taken from woman, but woman who was taken from man. ⁹ Besides, man was not created for the sake of woman, but woman for the sake of man. ¹⁰ And, therefore, a woman ought to wear on her head a symbol of her subjection, because of the presence of the angels. ¹¹ Still, when in union with the Lord, woman is not independent of man, or man of woman; ¹² For just as woman came from man, so man comes by means of woman; and all things come from God. ¹³ Judge for yourselves. Is it fitting that a woman should pray to God in public with her head uncovered? ¹⁴ Does not nature herself teach us that, while for a man to wear his hair long is degrading to him, ¹⁵ A woman's long hair is her glory? Her hair has been given her to serve as a covering. ¹⁶ If, however, any one still thinks it right to contest the point-well, we have no such custom, nor have the Churches of God. ¹⁷ In giving directions on the next subject, I cannot praise you; because your meetings do more harm than good. ¹⁸ To begin with, I hear you and, to some extent, I believe it. ¹⁹ Indeed, there must be actual parties among you, for so only will the men of real worth become known. ²⁰ When you meet together, as I understand, it is not possible to eat the Lord's Supper; ²¹ For, as you eat, each of you tries to secure his own supper first, with the result that one has too little to eat, and another has too much to drink! ²² Have you no houses in which you can eat and drink? Or are you trying to show your contempt for the Church of God, and to humiliate the poor? What can I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this matter I cannot praise you. ²³ For I myself received from the Lord the account which I have in turn given to you-how the Lord Jesus, on the very night of his betrayal, took some bread, ²⁴ And, after saying the thanksgiving, broke it and said "This is my own body given on your behalf. Do this in memory of me." ²⁵ And in the same way with the cup, after supper, saying "This cup is the new Covenant made by my blood. Do this, whenever you drink it, in memory of me." ²⁶ For whenever you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death-till he comes. ²⁷ Therefore, whoever eats the bread, or drinks the Lord's cup, in an irreverent spirit, will have to answer for an offence against the Lord's body and blood. ²⁸ Let each man look into his own heart, and only then eat of the bread and drink from the cup. ²⁹ For the man who eats and drinks brings a judgment upon himself by his eating and drinking, when he does not discern the body. ³⁰ That is why so many among you are weak and ill, and why some are sleeping. ³¹ But, if we judged ourselves rightly, we should not be judged. ³² Yet, in being judged by the Lord, we are undergoing discipline, so that we may not have judgment passed upon us with the rest of the world. ³³ Therefore, my Brothers, when you meet together to eat the Supper, wait for one another. ³⁴ If a man is hungry, let him eat at home, so that your meetings may not bring a judgment upon you. The other details I will settle when I come.

¹⁷ Therefore, if any one is in union with Christ, he is a new being! His old life has passed away; a new life has begun!

¹⁹ The sins of our earthly nature are unmistakable. They are sins like these--unchastity, impurity, indecency, ²⁰ Idolatry, sorcery, quarrels, strife, jealousy, outbursts of passion, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, ²¹ Feelings of envy, drunkenness, revelry, and the like. And I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who indulge in such things will have no place in the Kingdom of God.

⁹ Do not you know that wrong-doers will have no share in God's Kingdom? Do not be deceived. No one who is immoral, or an idolater, or an adulterer, or licentious, or a sodomite, ¹⁰ Or a thief, or covetous, or a drunkard, or abusive, or grasping, will have any share in God's Kingdom. ¹¹ Such some of you used to be; but you washed yourselves clean. You became Christ's People! you were pronounced righteous through the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the Spirit of our God!

¹ I entreat you, then, Brothers, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, for this is your rational worship. ² Do not conform to the fashion of this world; but be transformed by the complete change that has come over your minds, so that you may discern what God's will is--all that is good, acceptable, and perfect.

⁵ They who follow their earthly nature are earthly-minded, while they who follow the Spirit are spiritually minded.

¹⁹ Again, do not you know that your body is a shrine of the Holy Spirit that is within you-the Spirit which you have from God? ²⁰ Moreover, you are not your own masters; you were bought, and the price was paid. Therefore, honor God in your bodies.

²² Wives should submit to their husbands as submitting to the Lord. ²³ For a man is the Head of his wife, as the Christ is the Head of the Church--being indeed himself the Savior of his Body. ²⁴ But as the Church submits to the Christ, so also should wives submit to their husbands in everything. ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as the Christ loved the Church, and gave himself for her, ²⁶ To make her holy, after purifying her by the Washing with the Water, according to his promise; ²⁷ So that he might himself bring the Church, in all her beauty, into his own presence, with no spot or wrinkle or blemish of any kind, but that she might be holy and faultless. ²⁸ That is how husbands ought to love their wives--as if they were their own bodies. A man who loves his wife is really loving himself; ²⁹ For no one ever yet hated his own body. But every one feeds his body and cares for it, just as the Christ for the Church; ³⁰ For we are members of his Body. ³¹ 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and be united to his wife; and the man and his wife shall become one.' ³² In this there is a profound truth--I am speaking of Christ and his Church. ³³ However, for you individually, let each love his wife as if she were himself; and the wife be careful to respect her husband.

¹⁰ Is this, I ask, trying to conciliate men, or God? Am I seeking to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I should not be a servant of Christ.

² Fix your thoughts upon the things that are above, not upon those that are on earth.