Family Unity

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 →

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

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

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

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

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

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. — read the full passage →

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.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

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

from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

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

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.

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

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, — 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 →

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

Now the God of patience and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

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

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

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

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

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

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition,

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →

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

Now the God of patience and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus,

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

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.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. — read the full passage →

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. — read the full passage →

Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” — read the full passage →

“What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

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

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

But don’t you be called ‘Rabbi,’ for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.

For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same function, — read the full passage →

but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. — read the full passage →

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers; — read the full passage →