Family Relationships

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.

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

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

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.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

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

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

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

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

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 →

Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

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

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. — read the full passage →

Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers! — read the full passage →

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

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.

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God; — read the full passage →

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy; — read the full passage →

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

‘Honor your father and mother.’And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

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

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

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 →

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →