Absent Fathers

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce the Kingdom of God.”

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregardhis own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it? — read the full passage →

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

Honor widows who are widows indeed.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, — read the full passage →

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy. — read the full passage →

Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him. — read the full passage →

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

Let brotherly love continue. — read the full passage →

and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; — read the full passage →

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.