Family Unity

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 →

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

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

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

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging 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 Jehovah with all thy heart, And lean not upon thine own understanding:

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten 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 thy heart: thou shalt surely rebuke thy neighbor, and not bear sin because of him. — read the full passage →

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

Jehovah 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, — read the full passage →

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, Nor standeth in the way of sinners, Nor sitteth in the seat of scoffers: — read the full passage →

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

Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth one that is put away from a husband committeth adultery.

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

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

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

Finally, be ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:

Now I beseech you, brethren, through 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 perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

In all thy ways acknowledge him, And he will direct thy paths.

and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.

Now faith is assurance ofthingshoped for, a conviction of things not seen. — read the full passage →

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

Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

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:

Jehovah 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 in him that strengtheneth me.

Lo, children are a heritage of Jehovah; Andthe fruit of the womb ishisreward. — read the full passage →

giving diligence 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 birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.

from whom every family in heaven and on 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 foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

And Jehovah 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 in the Lord.

Be of the same mind one toward another. Set not your mind on high things, but condescend to things that are lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits.

I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that thou didst send me, and lovedst them, even as thou lovedst me.

My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:

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

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

And youdid he make alive, when ye were dead through your 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 who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

A friend loveth at all times; And a brother is born for adversity.

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

Now the God of patience and of comfort 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 were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all made to drink of one Spirit.

For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of 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, cannot love God whom he hath not seen.

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

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

They then that received his word were baptized: and there were added unto them in that day about three thousand souls.

In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned 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 man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us:

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

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

And Peter said unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

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

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

a devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, who gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God always.

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

Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations; — read the full passage →

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called, — read the full passage →

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

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

Honor thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee; that thy days may be long, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

She riseth also while it is yet night, And giveth food to her household, And their task to her maidens. — read the full passage →

But the lovingkindness of Jehovah 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 elect who are sojourners of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and soul: and not oneof themsaid that aught of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.

Except Jehovah build the house, They labor in vain that build it: Except Jehovah keep the city, The watchman waketh but in vain. — 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.

Hereby know we love, 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 an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to them day by day those that were saved.

make full my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God 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 there came unto him Pharisees, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? trying him. — read the full passage →

How think ye? if any man have a hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and go unto the mountains, and seek that which goeth astray?

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

unto the church of God which is at Corinth, eventhem that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, calledto besaints, with all that call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, theirLordand ours:

If then ye 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 ye received not the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your teacher, and all ye are brethren.

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

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

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

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