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

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

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?)

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

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.”

Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.

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

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 →

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.

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

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

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

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

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;

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 Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has 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 Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children; — read the full passage →

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

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.

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

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 →

Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.

For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.

May Yahweh our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us, nor forsake us;

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

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

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

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

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

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.

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

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.

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

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!”

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — read the full passage →

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

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me. — read the full passage →

God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb. — 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 →

Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.

Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it; — read the full passage →

Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

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

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments: — 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.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him. — read the full passage →

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,

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

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 →

He dreamed. Behold, a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it. — 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 →

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

These are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a coat of checker work, a turban, and a sash: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, and his sons, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office. — 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 →

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes 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 in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost. — read the full passage →

He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who has pity on the poor. — read the full passage →

When he had made an end of speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. — read the full passage →

The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh; and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. — read the full passage →

Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard: There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig. — read the full passage →

The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life. — read the full passage →

May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high, — read the full passage →

“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — 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 →

“Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and you shall 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 on my people, because their cry has come to me.” — read the full passage →

She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, and wept bitterly. — read the full passage →

When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →

Yahweh said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him. — read the full passage →

You shall tell your son in that day, saying, ‘It is because of that which Yahweh did for me when I came out of Egypt.’ — read the full passage →

He said, “Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.” — 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 →

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you! — read the full passage →

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

For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring: — read the full passage →

Praise Yah! I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart, in the council of the upright, and in the congregation. — read the full passage →

He will love you, bless you, multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you. — read the full passage →