Family Love

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

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.

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

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love--these three; and the greatest of these <FI>is<Fi> love.

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> sons, A reward <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of the womb. — read the full passage →

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.'

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

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

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

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

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

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

but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you--so also ye;

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

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

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

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

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 →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

and above all these things, <FI>have<Fi> love, which is a bond of the perfection,

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

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

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

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

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

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

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

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled,

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

Yea, she riseth while yet night, And giveth food to her household, And a portion to her damsels. — read the full passage →

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

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

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife--himself he doth love;

let all your things be done in love.

`Honour thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee, so that thy days are prolonged, and so that it is well with thee, on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

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.'

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.

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

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

See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

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

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 →

if any one may say--`I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God--whom he hath not seen--how is he able to love?

the love to the neighbour doth work no ill; the love, therefore, <FI>is<Fi> the fulness of law.

`But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil;

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

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.

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

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

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →

all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth.

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

and as ye wish that men may do to you, do ye also to them in like manner;

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

Set me as a seal on thy heart, as a seal on thine arm, For strong as death is love, Sharp as Sheol is jealousy, Its burnings <FI>are<Fi> burnings of fire, a flame of Jah! — read the full passage →

Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, Bind them on thy neck, Write them on the tablet of thy heart, — read the full passage →

and we--we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love, — read the full passage →

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us;

in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down; — read the full passage →

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

And Jesus said to him, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding-- — read the full passage →

Three things have been too wonderful for me, Yea, four that I have not known: — read the full passage →

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

The Pharisees, therefore, said to him, `Thou of thyself dost testify, thy testimony is not true;'

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.'

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 →

A Song of the Ascents, by Solomon. If Jehovah doth not build the house, In vain have its builders laboured at it, If Jehovah doth not watch a city, In vain hath a watchman waked. — read the full passage →

and thy seed hath been as the dust of the land, and thou hast broken forth westward, and eastward, and northward, and southward, and all families of the ground have been blessed in thee and in thy seed.

Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,

Jesus answered them, `Verily, verily, I say to you--Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin,

and Jehovah said, `Am I concealing from Abraham that which I am doing, — read the full passage →

what therefore God did join together, let not man put asunder.'

And if the one strengthen himself, the two stand against him; and the threefold cord is not hastily broken.

Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not.

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

Sons' sons <FI>are<Fi> the crown of old men, And the glory of sons <FI>are<Fi> their fathers.

of whom the whole family in the heavens and on earth is named,

To everything--a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens: — read the full passage →

and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

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 →

Cause me to hear in the morning Thy kindness, For in Thee I have trusted, Cause me to know the way that I go, For unto Thee I have lifted up my soul.

but in all these we more than conquer, through him who loved us; — read the full passage →

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another; — read the full passage →

fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love; — read the full passage →

Her sons have risen up, and pronounce her happy, Her husband, and he praiseth her, — read the full passage →

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

And all Judah are standing before Jehovah, also their infants, their wives, and their sons.

Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift, — read the full passage →

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