Family Relationships

But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

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

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye:

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

And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

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

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

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

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — 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, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.

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

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. — read the full passage →

And looking round on them that sat round about him, he saith, Behold, my mother and my brethren! — read the full passage →

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

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

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

For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death.

And seeing the multitudes, he went up into the mountain: and when he had sat down, his disciples came unto him: — read the full passage →

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

The Spirit himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children of God: — read the full passage →

Ye knowthis, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

Charge them that are rich in this present world, that they be not highminded, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; — read the full passage →

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

So then ye are no more strangers and sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:

Honor thy father and thy mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives; — read the full passage →

Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.

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

If it be possible, as much as in you lieth, be at peace with all men.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law and the prophets.

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;

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

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?

Be not deceived: Evil companionships corrupt good morals.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

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

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John; — read the full passage →

There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →