Families

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

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

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 →

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.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

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.

They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.” — read the full passage →

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

Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.

Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

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

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

Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?”

Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, — read the full passage →

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

The assemblies of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla greet you much in the Lord, together with the assembly that is in their house.

For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man. — read the full passage →

(I also baptized the household of Stephanas; besides them, I don’t know whether I baptized any other.)

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. — read the full passage →

When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay.” So she persuaded us.

Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God to hear all things that have been commanded you by God.”

a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, — read the full passage →

Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha. — read the full passage →

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

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

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

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

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

Jesus said to him, “I don’t tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven.

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →