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And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

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 speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: — read the full passage →

For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; — read the full passage →

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

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

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

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; — read the full passage →

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.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

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.

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;

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.

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

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

That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:

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

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: — 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; — read the full passage →

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; — read the full passage →

I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; — read the full passage →

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

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

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

And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

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

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

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

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.

Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. — read the full passage →

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

The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; — read the full passage →

Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

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

Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; — read the full passage →

Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. — read the full passage →

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

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

Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. — read the full passage →

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: — read the full passage →

We love him, because he first loved us.

Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: — read the full passage →

If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

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 every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

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.

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? — read the full passage →

But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. — read the full passage →

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

After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. — read the full passage →

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 king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

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

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

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

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 →

Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually.