TR Concordance for ἄνδρα

and Jacob fathered Joseph the husband of Mary,

who gave birth to Jesus who is called the Messiah.

because Herod feared John and protected him, knowing he was a righteous and holy man. When Herod heard him he would be very perplexed,[fn] and yet he liked to listen to him.

“Also, if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

Mary asked the angel, “How can this be, since I have not had sexual relations with a man? ”[fn]

“Go call your husband,” he told her, “and come back here.”

“Fellow Israelites, listen to these words: This Jesus of Nazareth was a man attested to you by God with miracles, wonders, and signs that God did among you through him, just as you yourselves know.

“You denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked to have a murderer released to you.

Then Peter said to her, “Why did you agree to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”

This proposal pleased the whole company. So they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a convert from Antioch.

“In a vision[fn] he has seen a man named Ananias coming in and placing his hands on him so that he may regain his sight.”

“Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

He came to us, took Paul's belt, tied his own feet and hands, and said, “This is what the Holy Spirit says: ‘In this way the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him over to the Gentiles.' ”

When this man had been seized by the Jews and was about to be killed by them, I arrived with my troops and rescued him because I learned that he is a Roman citizen.

When I was informed that there was a plot against the man,[fn] I sent him to you right away. I also ordered his accusers to state their case against him in your presence.[fn]

“For we have found this man to be a plague, an agitator among all the Jews throughout the Roman world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

“So when they had assembled here, I did not delay. The next day I took my seat at the tribunal and ordered the man to be brought in.

But because sexual immorality is so common,[fn] each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman should have sexual relations with her own husband.

But if she does leave, she must remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband ​— ​and a husband is not to divorce his wife.

Also, if any woman has an unbelieving husband and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce her husband.

Wife, for all you know, you might save your husband. Husband, for all you know, you might save your wife.[fn]

Neither was man created for the sake of woman, but woman for the sake of man.

For it is written,

Rejoice, childless woman,

unable to give birth.

Burst into song and shout,

you who are not in labor,

for the children of the desolate woman will be many,

more numerous than those

of the woman who has a husband.

until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of God's Son, growing into maturity with a stature measured by Christ's fullness.

To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.

An overseer, therefore, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, sensible, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,