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`Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;

(and if any one his own house <FI>how<Fi> to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

and if wrong in your eyes to serve Jehovah--choose for you to-day whom ye do serve; --whether the gods whom your fathers served, which <FI>are<Fi> beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorite in whose land ye are dwelling; and I and my house--we serve Jehovah.'

Thy wife <FI>is<Fi> as a fruitful vine in the sides of thy house, Thy sons as olive plants around thy table.

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> sons, A reward <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of the womb. — 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 command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you; — read the full passage →

Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.

his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity,

Whoso is troubling his own house inheriteth wind, And a servant <FI>is<Fi> the fool to the wise of heart.

A wise son rejoiceth a father. And a foolish man is despising his mother.

A Song of the Ascents, by David. Lo, how good and how pleasant The dwelling of brethren--even together!

and they said, `Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved--thou and thy house;' — read the full passage →

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

for I have known him, that he commandeth his children, and his house after him (and they have kept the way of Jehovah), to do righteousness and judgment, that Jehovah may bring on Abraham that which He hath spoken concerning him.'

and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

we--we love him, because He--He first loved us;

And the kindness of Jehovah <FI>Is<Fi> from age even unto age on those fearing Him, And His righteousness to sons' sons, — read the full passage →

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

pious, and fearing God with all his house, doing also many kind acts to the people, and beseeching God always,

A dishonest gainer is troubling his house, And whoso is hating gifts liveth.

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

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

Better <FI>is<Fi> an allowance of green herbs and love there, Than a fatted ox, and hatred with it.

For <FI>I<Fi> hate sending away, said Jehovah, God of Israel, And He <FI>who<Fi> hath covered violence with his clothing, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And ye do not deal treacherously.

`Jehovah our God is with us as He hath been with our fathers; He doth not forsake us nor leave us;

A man with friends <FI>is<Fi> to show himself friendly, And there is a lover adhering more than a brother!

for God did command, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother--let him die the death;

A virtuous woman <FI>is<Fi> a crown to her husband, And as rottenness in his bones <FI>is<Fi> one causing shame.

At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.

And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'

A good man causeth sons' sons to inherit, And laid up for the righteous <FI>is<Fi> the sinner's wealth.

When my father and my mother Have forsaken me, then doth Jehovah gather me.

And I call upon you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the same thing ye may all say, and there may not be divisions among you, and ye may be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment,

The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;

and these words which I am commanding thee to-day have been on thine heart, — read the full passage →

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

and I will be to you for a Father, and ye--ye shall be to Me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.'

If, then, ye, being evil, have known good gifts to be giving to your children, how much more shall the Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him!'

Ministrants--let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,

Every wise woman hath builded her house, And the foolish with her hands breaketh it down.

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

and Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue did believe in the Lord with all his house, and many of the Corinthians hearing were believing, and they were being baptized.

for ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye did receive a spirit of adoption in which we cry, `Abba--Father.'

O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat; — read the full passage →

An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren; — read the full passage →

Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son causeth a father to rejoice, And a foolish son <FI>is<Fi> an affliction to his mother.

My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished--graves <FI>are<Fi> for me. — read the full passage →

And God remembereth Rachel, and God hearkeneth unto her, and openeth her womb, — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, when Jesus finished these words, he removed from Galilee, and did come to the borders of Judea, beyond the Jordan, — read the full passage →

but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them; — read the full passage →

Thine own friend, and the friend of thy father, forsake not, And the house of thy brother enter not In a day of thy calamity, Better <FI>is<Fi> a near neighbour than a brother afar off.

`And this <FI>is<Fi> the command, the statutes and the judgments which Jehovah your God hath commanded to teach you, to do in the land which ye are passing over thither to possess it, — read the full passage →

sojourn in this land, and I am with thee, and bless thee, for to thee and to thy seed I give all these lands, and I have established the oath which I have sworn to Abraham thy father;

Then come do his brethren and mother, and standing without, they sent unto him, calling him, — read the full passage →

My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep, — read the full passage →

taking remembrance of the unfeigned faith that is in thee, that dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that also in thee.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him. — read the full passage →

and to the married I announce--not I, but the Lord--let not a wife separate from a husband: — read the full passage →

having foreordained us to the adoption of sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

and make their lives bitter in hard service, in clay, and in brick, and in every <FI>kind<Fi> of service in the field; all their service in which they have served <FI>is<Fi> with rigour. — read the full passage →

`Again, I say to you, that, if two of you may agree on the earth concerning anything, whatever they may ask--it shall be done to them from my Father who is in the heavens, — read the full passage →

And he dreameth, and lo, a ladder set up on the earth, and its head is touching the heavens; and lo, messengers of God are going up and coming down by it; — read the full passage →

for whoever may do the will of my Father who is in the heavens, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.'

beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is; — read the full passage →

so that neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but He who is giving growth--God; — read the full passage →

and a certain scribe having come, said to him, `Teacher, I will follow thee wherever thou mayest go;' — read the full passage →

Sons' sons <FI>are<Fi> the crown of old men, And the glory of sons <FI>are<Fi> their fathers. — read the full passage →

`And these <FI>are<Fi> the garments which they make: a breastplate, and an ephod, and an upper robe, and an embroidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle; yea, they have made holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and for his sons, for his being priest to Me. — read the full passage →

make, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have a father--Abraham; for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham; — read the full passage →

A rod and reproof give wisdom, And a youth let away is shaming his mother. — read the full passage →

for Paul decided to sail past Ephesus, that there may not be to him a loss of time in Asia, for he hasted, if it were possible for him, on the day of the Pentecost to be at Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

Whoso is despising his neighbour sinneth, Whoso is favouring the humble, O his happiness. — read the full passage →

And it cometh to pass, when he finisheth to speak unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan hath been bound to the soul of David, and Jonathan loveth him as his own soul. — read the full passage →

And the sons of Israel add to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and Jehovah giveth them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. — read the full passage →

My woe <FI>is<Fi> to me, for I have been As gatherings of summer-fruit, As gleanings of harvest, There is no cluster to eat, The first-ripe fruit desired hath my soul. — read the full passage →

The fear of a king <FI>is<Fi> a growl as of a young lion, He who is causing him to be wroth is wronging his soul. — read the full passage →

To the Overseer. --A Psalm of David. Jehovah doth answer thee, In a day of adversity, The name of the God of Jacob doth set thee on high, — read the full passage →

My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me. — read the full passage →

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

`I am the Alpha and the Omega, beginning and end, saith the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is coming--the Almighty.' — read the full passage →

who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate <FI>us<Fi> into the reign of the Son of His love, — read the full passage →

`At this time tomorrow, I send unto thee a man out of the land of Benjamin--and thou hast anointed him for leader over My people Israel, and he hath saved My people out of the hand of the Philistines; for I have seen My people, for its cry hath come in unto Me.' — read the full passage →

And she is bitter in soul, and prayeth unto Jehovah, and weepeth greatly, — read the full passage →

`When a man doth take a wife, and hath married her, and it hath been, if she doth not find grace in his eyes (for he hath found in her nakedness of anything), and he hath written for her a writing of divorce, and given <FI>it<Fi> into her hand, and sent her out of his house, — read the full passage →

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Take to thee Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom <FI>is<Fi> the Spirit, and thou hast laid thine hand upon him, — read the full passage →

`And thou hast declared to thy son in that day, saying, `<FI> It is<Fi> because of what Jehovah did to me, in my going out from Egypt, — read the full passage →

And He saith, `Take, I pray thee, thy son, thine only one, whom thou hast loved, even Isaac, and go for thyself unto the land of Moriah, and cause him to ascend there for a burnt-offering on one of the mountains of which I speak unto thee.' — 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, A wife I married, and because of this I am not able to come. — read the full passage →

Forget doth a woman her suckling, The loved one--the son of her womb? Yea, these forget--but I--I forget not thee. — read the full passage →

Build ye houses, and abide; and plant ye gardens, and eat their fruit; — read the full passage →

For I pour waters on a thirsty one, And floods on a dry land, I pour My Spirit on thy seed, And My blessing on thine offspring. — read the full passage →

Praise ye Jah! I thank Jehovah with the whole heart, In the secret meeting of the upright, And of the company. — read the full passage →

and hath loved thee, and blessed thee, and multiplied thee, and hath blessed the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, thy corn, and thy new wine, and thine oil, the increase of thine oxen, and the wealth of thy flock, on the ground which He hath sworn to thy fathers to give to thee. — read the full passage →