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Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

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

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

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

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

My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. — read the full passage →

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

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.

But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children; — read the full passage →

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.

He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. — read the full passage →

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:

A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.

Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: — read the full passage →

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

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

Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. — read the full passage →

Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; — read the full passage →

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. — read the full passage →

And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb. — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judea beyond Jordan; — read the full passage →

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

Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.

Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: — read the full passage →

Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;

There came then his brethren and his mother, and, standing without, sent unto him, calling him. — read the full passage →

My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. — read the full passage →

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: — read the full passage →

Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour. — read the full passage →

Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. — read the full passage →

And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. — read the full passage →

For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. — read the full passage →

So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. — read the full passage →

And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. — read the full passage →

Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers. — read the full passage →

And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office. — read the full passage →

Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. — read the full passage →

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame. — read the full passage →

For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost. — read the full passage →

He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he. — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. — read the full passage →

And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. — read the full passage →

Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit. — read the full passage →

The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul. — read the full passage →

The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; — read the full passage →

He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. — read the full passage →

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. — read the full passage →

Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: — read the full passage →

To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over my people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is come unto me. — read the full passage →

And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore. — read the full passage →

When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →

And the Lord said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him; — read the full passage →

And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, This is done because of that which the Lord did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt. — read the full passage →

And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. — read the full passage →

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

And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. — read the full passage →

Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. — read the full passage →

Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them; — read the full passage →

For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: — read the full passage →

Praise ye the Lord. I will praise the Lord with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation. — read the full passage →

And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. — read the full passage →