Family And Friends

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

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

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

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

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.

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

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

But he answered him who spoke to him, “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?” — read the full passage →

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

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

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

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

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.”

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

Oh magnify Yahweh with me. Let us exalt his name together.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.

A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

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

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; — read the full passage →

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

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger: — read the full passage →

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

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

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

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

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 →

Elijah said to Elisha, “Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me as far as Bethel.” Elisha said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, — read the full passage →

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

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

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.

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

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Better is open rebuke than hidden love. — read the full passage →

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

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. — read the full passage →

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

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

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

A wise man has great power; and a knowledgeable man increases strength;

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 →

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

We love him, because he first loved us.

She rises also while it is yet night, gives food to her household, and portions for her servant girls.

Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

“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 →

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

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

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

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.”

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?”

Oh come, let’s sing to Yahweh. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation! — read the full passage →

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 →

They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

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

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

One will say to him, ‘What are these wounds between your arms?’ Then he will answer, ‘Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.’

The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, but the house of the righteous shall stand.

Then was Abner very angry for the words of Ishbosheth, and said, “Am I a dog’s head that belongs to Judah? Today I show kindness to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me this day with a fault concerning this woman!

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →

Ruth said, “Don’t entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God; — read the full passage →

Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity! — read the full passage →

But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children;

Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show you. — read the full passage →

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. — read the full passage →

She rises also while it is yet night, gives food to her household, and portions for her servant girls. — read the full passage →

“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →