Christian Blended Families

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.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. — read the full passage →

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

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

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,

We love him, because he first loved us.

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

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

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; — read the full passage →

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

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

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

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

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!”

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

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.

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

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

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

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 →

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

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

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.

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

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, — read the full passage →

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

(but if a man doesn’t know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

He said to them, “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition. — read the full passage →

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. — read the full passage →

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

He was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah.

Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles. — read the full passage →