THE BIBLICAL RELATIONSHIPS OF MEN
Relationship to Christ
Walk in daily repentance and confession
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I Corinthians 11:31-32 “If we judge
ourselves, we should not be judge. But when we are judged we are
chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.”
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John 15:3 “Ye are clean through
the Word.”
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Ephesians 5:26 “That Christ might
sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the
Word.”
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James 5:16 “Confess your faults
one to another.”
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I John 1:9 “If we confess our sins,
he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness.”
Be continually filled with the Spirit
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Ephesians 5:18 “Be not drunk with wine
wherein is excess; but be ye filled with the Spirit.”
Be in the Word
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Read: Revelation 1:3 “Blessed is he that
readeth, heareth and keepeth those things which are written.”
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Hear: Romans 10:17 “Faith cometh by
hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.”
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Study: II Timothy 2:15 “Study to shew
thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly
dividing the Word of truth.”
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Memorize: Psalm 119:11 “Thy Word have I
hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.”
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Meditate: Psalm 1:2-3 “His delight is in the
law of the Lord, and in his law doth he mediate day and night.”
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Obey: I John 1:4 “These things write we unto
you, that your joy may be full.”
Be equipped for spiritual warfare
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Ephesians 6:10-18 “Put on the whole
armour of God that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the
devil.”
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II Corinthians 10:4-5 “Pulling down
strongholds; casting down imaginations. Bringing into
captivity every thought to the obedience to Christ.”
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Matthew 6:13 “Deliver us from the evil
one.”
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Philippians 4:4-9 “Jesus stands guard
over your hearts and minds.”
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Romans 6:13 “Yield your members as
instruments of righteousness.”
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James 4:7 “Resist the devil and he
will flee from you.”
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Matthew 4:4,7,10 It is written…”
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Romans 12:1-2 “Present your bodies as
a living sacrifice…”
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Ephesians 4:18 “Be filled with the Spirit.”
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Matthew 8:5-13 “Be under godly authority…”
Pray
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Ephesians 6:18 “Praying in the
Spirit.”
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I Thessalonians 5:17 “Pray without
ceasing.”
Fast
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Ephesians 6:18 “Praying in the
Spirit.”
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I Thessalonians 5:17 “Pray without
ceasing.”
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Matthew 9:14-15 “The days will come when the
bridegroom shall be taken from them and then they shall fast.”
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Acts 13:2-3 “They fasted and
prayed…the Holy Spirit spoke…they fasted and prayed.”
Worship
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Acts 13:2 “They ministered unto the Lord.”
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John 4:20-24 “Worship in Spirit and
in Truth.”
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Psalm 100:2, 4 “Come before his presence
with singing and his gates with thanksgiving and into his
courts with praise. Be thankful unto him and bless his
name.”
Witness
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Acts 1:8 “Ye shall be witnesses
unto.”
Relationship to oneself
Acceptance
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Creation: Genesis 1:26,31 “God said, let us
make man in our own image…and it was good.”
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Redemption: Revelation 5:9 “Thou(Lamb)wast
slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood.”
Uniqueness
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Genesis 1:27 “Male and female
created he them.”
Needs
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Fellowship: Genesis 2:18 “It is not good
that man should be alone.”
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Philippians 4:19 “God shall supply all
your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”
Role Models
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Genesis 2:24 “Therefore shall a man leave
his father and mother and shall cleave to his wife and they shall be
one flesh.”
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Romans 12:1-2 “Present your bodies as
a living sacrifice…be not conformed to this world: but be ye
transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
Relationship to wife
Know your wife
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I Peter 3:19 “Dwell with your wife
according to knowledge.”
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Genesis 1:27 “God created man in his own
image, in the image of God created he him; male and female
created he them.”
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Genesis 2:22 “God brought her unto
the man.”
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Genesis 3:16 “Thy desire shall be to
they husband.”
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I Corinthians 7:3-5 “Render due
benevolence and defraud not.”
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I Corinthians 14:34-35 “Let the wives ask
their husbands at home.”
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Ephesians 5:25 “Husband love your wives
as Christ love the Church.”
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Colossians 3:19 “Husbands, love your
wives and be not bitter against them.”
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I Peter 3:7 “Giving honour unto the
wife.”
Relationship to children
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Deuteronomy 11:18-21 “Lay these words in
your heart and soul and ye shall teach them your children, speaking
of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest
by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
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Proverbs 22:6 “Train up a child in
the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
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Proverbs 13:24 “He that spareth the rod
hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.”
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Hebrews 12:11 “Chastening yeildeth
the peaceable fruit of righteousness.”
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Proverbs 22:15 “The rod of correction
shall drive foolishness far from a child.”
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Proverbs 23:13-14 “Withhold not
correction from the child: for it thou beatest him with the rod,
he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt
deliver his soul from hell.”
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Proverbs 29:15 “The rod and
reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his
mother to shame.”
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Colossians 3:21 “Fathers, provoke
not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.”
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Ephesians 6:4 “Fathers, provoke
not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and
admonition of the Lord.”
Relationship to other believers
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I Corinthians 16:15-16 “I beseech you
brethren that they have addicted themselves to the ministry
of the saints, that ye submit yourselves unto such and to everyone
that helpeth with us, and laboureth.”
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I Thessalonians 5:12-13 “And we beseech you,
brethren to know them which labour among, and are over you
in the Lord, and admonish you and to esteem them very highly
in love for their works sake.”
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Hebrews 13:7,17,24 “Remember them
which have rule over you, who have spoken unto the Word of God: whose
faith follow, considering the end of your conversation. Obey them
that have rule over you and submit yourselves: for they watch
for your souls, as they must give account, that they may do it with joy, and
not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you. Salute all them that
rule over you and all the saints.”
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Colossians 3:16 “Let the Word of Christ
dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing
one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing
with grace in your hearts to the Lord.”
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Romans 12:4-8 “For as we have many members
in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many,
are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. Having
then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us,
whether prophecy, ministry, teaching, exhortation, giving, rule or
mercy.”
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I Corinthians 12:7-11 “But the manifestation
of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. For to one is given
the Spirit the word of wisdom; the word of knowledge; faith; gifts of
healings; working of miracles; prophecy; discerning of spirits; divers kinds
of tongues; interpretation of tongues: But all these worketh that one
and selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.”
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I Corinthians 12:27-28 “Now ye are the body
of Christ, and members in particular. And God hath set some in the church:
apostles, prophets, teachers, miracles, gifts of healings, helps,
governments, diversities of tongues.”
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Ephesians 5:18-19 “Be filled with the
Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns
and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the
Lord.”
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I Corinthians 14:26,40 “How is it then,
brethren? When you come together, every one of you hath a psalm,
hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an
interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifyiing. Let all
things be done decently and in order.”
Relationship to Vocation
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Exodus 20:9-10 “Six days shalt thou
labour and do all thy work. But on the seventh day is the
Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work.”
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Deuteronomy 14:29 “That the Lord thy God may
bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.”
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Job 1:10 “God hast blessed the work of
his hands.”
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Proverbs 14:23 “In all labor there is
profit.”
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Proverbs 16:3 “Commit thy works unto
the Lord and they thoughts shall be established.”
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Proverbs 23:4 “Labor not to be rich.”
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Proverbs 31:31 “Give her of the fruit of
her hands and let her own works praise her in the gates.”
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Ecclesiastes 2:24 “There is nothing better
for a man that that he should make his soul good in his labor.”
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Ecclesiastes 3:13 “It is a gift of God that
every man enjoy the good of his labour.”
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Ecclesiastes 3:17 “There is a time there for
every purpose and for every work.”
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Ecclesiastes 3:22 “There is nothing better
than that a man should rejoice in his own works.”
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Ecclesiastes 9:7 “God now accepteth thy
works.”
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Ecclesiastes 9:10 “Whatsoever thy hand
findeth to do, do it with all thy might.”
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Ecclesiastes 12:14 “God will bring every
work into judgment.”
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Matthew 5:16 “Let your light so shine before
men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which
is in heaven.”
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Acts 20:35 “Laboring ye ought to
support the weak.”
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Acts 20 34 “These hands have
ministered unto my necessities and to them that were with me.”
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Eph. 4:28 “Let him labor, working
with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him
that needeth.”
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I Corinthians 4:12 “Labour working
with your own hands.”
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I Corinthians 3:9 “We are laborers
together with God.”
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II Thessalonnians 3:10-12 “If any would not
work, neither shall he eat.”
Relationship to recreation and exercise
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I Timothy 4:7-8 “Exercise thyself rather to
godliness. For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is
profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of
that which is to come.”
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