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.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

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.

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

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.

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

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

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

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

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 →

A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

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?’

He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

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!”

He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

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.’

“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

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.

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

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 →

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

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.

Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come.

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

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.”

“Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Those who fear you will see me and be glad, because I have put my hope in your word.

wine that makes glad the heart of man, oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man’s heart.

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.

But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children; — read the full passage →

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.

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

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 →

For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water; — read the full passage →

How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince’s daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a skillful workman. — read the full passage →

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

Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says Yahweh. Don’t I fill heaven and earth? says Yahweh.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me? says Yahweh.

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

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 →

To what purpose comes there to me frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.”

Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed? — read the full passage →

I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop.

In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. — read the full passage →

In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.

Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.

In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.

Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.

Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence? — read the full passage →

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing? — read the full passage →