Family Unity

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — 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.

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

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. — read the full passage →

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him. — read the full passage →

For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.

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

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. — read the full passage →

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. — read the full passage →

Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

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

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. — read the full passage →

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. — read the full passage →

And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

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

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,

A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

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

Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.

I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.

And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; — 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 which is in heaven. — read the full passage →

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward 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 by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: — read the full passage →

No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

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

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;

For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.

But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children; — read the full passage →

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; — read the full passage →

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, — read the full passage →

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:

Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. — read the full passage →

But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.

Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. — read the full passage →

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. — read the full passage →

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.

Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. — read the full passage →

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! — read the full passage →

And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him. — read the full passage →

How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?

And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.

There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: — read the full passage →

For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: — read the full passage →

Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. — read the full passage →

And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; — read the full passage →