Family Matters

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

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

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

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

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

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

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

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

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

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. — read the full passage →

For with God nothing shall be impossible.

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.

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

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

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 →

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

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

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.

A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever. — read the full passage →

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

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

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

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.

And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. — read the full passage →

For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. — read the full passage →

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. — read the full passage →

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

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

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

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

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 →

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.

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

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: — read the full passage →

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. — read the full passage →

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Thou shalt not kill.