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 →

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

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

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.

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

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — read the full passage →

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

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

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.”

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 →

This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, than to put confidence in man.

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 →

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

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

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.

“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

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.

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

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

She rises also while it is yet night, gives food to her household, and portions for her servant girls. — read the full passage →

But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children;

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

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

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

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

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 →

“Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

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.’”

For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.

If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Pride only breeds quarrels, but with ones who take advice is wisdom.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

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.

“‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

God spoke all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb. — read the full passage →

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

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.

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

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

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 →

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

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 →

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.