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Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

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

But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

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

(but if a man knoweth 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 Jehovah, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, In the innermost parts of thy house; Thy children like olive plants, Round about thy table.

Lo, children are a heritage of Jehovah; Andthe fruit of the womb ishisreward. — read the full passage →

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father, — read the full passage →

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

My son, keep the commandment of thy father, 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 foolish 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, and thou shalt be saved, thou and thy house. — read the full passage →

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Jehovah 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, because he first loved us.

But the lovingkindness of Jehovah 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:

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

a devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, who gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God always.

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

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

If then ye 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 →

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

For I hate putting away, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith Jehovah of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

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

He that maketh many friends doeth it to his own destruction; But there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death.

A worthy woman is the crown of 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 birds of the heavens, 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 righteous.

When my father and my mother forsake me, Then Jehovah will take me up.

Now I beseech you, brethren, through 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 perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

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

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart; — read the full passage →

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

And will be to you a Father, And ye shall be to me 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 deacons be 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 own hands.

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

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

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

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, Nor standeth in the way of sinners, Nor sitteth in the seat of scoffers: — read the full passage →

Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; 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 spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave isreadyfor 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 when Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judæa beyond the Jordan; — read the full passage →

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

Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; And go not to thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: Better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over 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 lands, and I will establish the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;

And there come his mother and his brethren; and, standing without, they sent unto him, calling him. — read the full passage →

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

having been reminded of the unfeigned faith that is in thee; which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and, I am persuaded, in thee also.

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

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband — read the full passage →

having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigor. — read the full passage →

Again I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father who 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 who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.

Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is. — read the full passage →

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

And there came a scribe, and said unto him, Teacher, 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 coat of checker work, 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 causeth shame to his mother. — 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 at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost. — read the full passage →

He that despiseth his neighbor sinneth; But he that hath pity 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 again did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah; and Jehovah 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 grape gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat; my soul desireth the first-ripe fig. — read the full passage →

The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: He that provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own life. — read the full passage →

Jehovah answer thee in the day of trouble; The name of the God of Jacob set thee up on high; — read the full passage →

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

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

I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith 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 →

To-morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be prince over my people Israel; and he shall 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 Jehovah, and wept sore. — read the full passage →

When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →

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

And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying, It is because of that which Jehovah did for me when I came forth out of Egypt. — read the full passage →

And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, even Isaac, 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 one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with 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, these may forget, yet will not I 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 streams upon the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: — read the full passage →

Praise ye Jehovah. I will give thanks unto Jehovah with my whole heart, In the council 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 body and the fruit of thy ground, thy grain and thy new wine and thine oil, the increase of thy cattle and the young of thy flock, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. — read the full passage →