Caring For Parents

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.

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

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

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

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

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth. — read the full passage →

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

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. — read the full passage →

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →