Family Matters

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

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> sons, A reward <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of the womb.

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

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

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.'

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

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

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

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;

And God saith, `Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.' — read the full passage →

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

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.

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

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

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

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

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

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.'

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

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. — 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.

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

For Thou--Thou hast possessed my reins, Thou dost cover me in my mother's belly. — read the full passage →

A Song of the Ascents. Those trusting in Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> as Mount Zion, It is not moved--to the age it abideth. — read the full passage →

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

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, — read the full passage →

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

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

And he said to them, `Well do ye put away the command of God that your tradition ye may keep; — read the full passage →

for I came to set a man at variance 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 ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

Nebuchadnezzar the king hath made an image of gold, its height sixty cubits, its breadth six cubits; he hath raised it up in the valley of Dura, in the province of Babylon; — read the full passage →

Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

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

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

Better <FI>is<Fi> an allowance of green herbs and love there, Than a fatted ox, and hatred with it.

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 →

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.'

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

Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature; — read the full passage →

`Before I form thee in the belly, I have known thee; and before thou comest forth from the womb I have separated thee, a prophet to nations I have made thee.'

`And when men strive, and have smitten a pregnant woman, and her children have come out, and there is no mischief, he is certainly fined, as the husband of the woman doth lay upon him, and he hath given through the judges; — read the full passage →

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

`Thou dost not murder.