- Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.
- Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.
- Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word.
- In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
- For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
- However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
- Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
- Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.
- Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.
- For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
- Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.
- Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.
- Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
- And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.
Bible verse of the day
See, the enemy is puffed up;his desires are not upright—
but the righteous person will live by his faithfulness.