Family Matters

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

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

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

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

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.”

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

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

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

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.

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 birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

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.

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

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

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to 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 you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

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 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.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever. — read the full passage →

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated 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 →

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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.

He said to them, “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition. — read the full passage →

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

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

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

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

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

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

Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.

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 →

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.”

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

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. — read the full passage →

“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

“If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman’s husband demands and the judges allow. — read the full passage →

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

“You shall not murder.