Family

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 all things, for this pleases the Lord.

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

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

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. — read the full passage →

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

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

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.

We love him, because he first loved us.

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.

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.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

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

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

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

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

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

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

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.

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!”

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. — read the full passage →

But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. — read the full passage →

His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him. — read the full passage →

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.

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

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

Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is. — read the full passage →

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. — read the full passage →

A scribe came, and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.” — read the full passage →

Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones! — read the full passage →

For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost. — read the full passage →

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” — read the full passage →

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love; — read the full passage →

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your heart to the Lord; — read the full passage →

“Another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I can’t come.’ — read the full passage →