Family Relationships

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

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

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;

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' --ye do well;

the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;

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

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

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

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

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

the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

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

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband; — read the full passage →

And having looked round in a circle to those sitting about him, he saith, `Lo, my mother and my brethren! — read the full passage →

`Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens. — read the full passage →

but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.

The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;

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.

for God did command, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother--let him die the death;

And having seen the multitudes, he went up to the mount, and he having sat down, his disciples came to him, — read the full passage →

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

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

So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

Those rich in the present age charge thou not to be high-minded, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who is giving to us all things richly for enjoyment; -- — read the full passage →

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,

because the mind of the flesh <FI>is<Fi> enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,

honour thy father and mother, and, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.'

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won, — read the full passage →

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — read the full passage →

If possible--so far as in you--with all men being in peace;

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves--

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

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;

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 →

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love--these three; and the greatest of these <FI>is<Fi> love.

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →