Family Unity

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 →

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

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

A Song of the Ascents, by David. Lo, how good and how pleasant The dwelling of brethren--even together!

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not.

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity,

`Thou dost not hate thy brother in thy heart; thou dost certainly reprove thy fellow, and not suffer sin on him. — read the full passage →

for to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.'

Near <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah to all those calling Him, To all who call Him in truth.

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

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat; — read the full passage →

and thou hast loved Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might, — read the full passage →

`Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.

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.

and if wrong in your eyes to serve Jehovah--choose for you to-day whom ye do serve; --whether the gods whom your fathers served, which <FI>are<Fi> beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorite in whose land ye are dwelling; and I and my house--we serve Jehovah.'

that they all may be one, as Thou Father <FI>art<Fi> in me, and I in Thee; that they also in us may be one, that the world may believe that Thou didst send me.

And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,

And I call upon you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the same thing ye may all say, and there may not be divisions among you, and ye may be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment,

In all thy ways know thou Him, And He doth make straight thy paths.

and above all these things, <FI>have<Fi> love, which is a bond of the perfection,

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction, — read the full passage →

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another; — read the full passage →

`Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

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;

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →

and thy seed hath been as the dust of the land, and thou hast broken forth westward, and eastward, and northward, and southward, and all families of the ground have been blessed in thee and in thy seed.

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> sons, A reward <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of the womb. — read the full passage →

being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of the peace;

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

And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'

<FI> Whoso<Fi> hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

of whom the whole family in the heavens and on earth is named,

A wise son rejoiceth a father. And a foolish man is despising his mother.

Whoso is troubling his own house inheriteth wind, And a servant <FI>is<Fi> the fool to the wise of heart.

And Jehovah God taketh the man, and causeth him to rest in the garden of Eden, to serve it, and to keep it.

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

of the same mind one toward another, not minding the high things, but with the lowly going along; become not wise in your own conceit;

I in them, and Thou in me, that they may be perfected into one, and that the world may know that Thou didst send me, and didst love them as Thou didst love me.

Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.

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

A dishonest gainer is troubling his house, And whoso is hating gifts liveth.

Also you--being dead in the trespasses and the sins, — 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 →

At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.

and to the married I announce--not I, but the Lord--let not a wife separate from a husband: — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

And may the God of the endurance, and of the exhortation, give to you to have the same mind toward one another, according to Christ Jesus; — read the full passage →

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

for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink,

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;

if any one may say--`I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God--whom he hath not seen--how is he able to love?

for even as in Adam all die, so also in the Christ all shall be made alive,

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,

then those, indeed, who did gladly receive his word were baptized, and there were added on that day, as it were, three thousand souls,

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →

God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us;

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife--himself he doth love;

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

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

for he is our peace, who did make both one, and the middle wall of the enclosure did break down,

For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also <FI>is<Fi> the Christ,

pious, and fearing God with all his house, doing also many kind acts to the people, and beseeching God always,

And the kindness of Jehovah <FI>Is<Fi> from age even unto age on those fearing Him, And His righteousness to sons' sons, — read the full passage →

All joy count <FI>it<Fi> , my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold; — read the full passage →

Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called, — 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, — read the full passage →

And may the God of the endurance, and of the exhortation, give to you to have the same mind toward one another, according to Christ Jesus;

`Honour thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee, so that thy days are prolonged, and so that it is well with thee, on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

Yea, she riseth while yet night, And giveth food to her household, And a portion to her damsels. — read the full passage →

And the kindness of Jehovah <FI>Is<Fi> from age even unto age on those fearing Him, And His righteousness to sons' sons,

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the choice sojourners of the dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

and of the multitude of those who did believe the heart and the soul was one, and not one was saying that anything of the things he had was his own, but all things were to them in common.

A Song of the Ascents, by Solomon. If Jehovah doth not build the house, In vain have its builders laboured at it, If Jehovah doth not watch a city, In vain hath a watchman waked. — 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.

in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down; — read the full passage →

and ye <FI>are<Fi> a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

praising God, and having favour with all the people, and the Lord was adding those being saved every day to the assembly.

fulfil ye my joy, that ye may mind the same thing--having the same love--of one soul--minding the one thing,

till we may all come to the unity of the faith and of the recognition of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature of the fulness of the Christ,

that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved, — read the full passage →

A Song of the Ascents, by David. Lo, how good and how pleasant The dwelling of brethren--even together! — read the full passage →

And the Pharisees, having come near, questioned him, if it is lawful for a husband to put away a wife, tempting him, — read the full passage →

`What think ye? if a man may have an hundred sheep, and there may go astray one of them, doth he not--having left the ninety-nine, having gone on the mountains--seek that which is gone astray?

And if the one strengthen himself, the two stand against him; and the threefold cord is not hastily broken.

to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all those calling upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place--both theirs and ours:

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

for ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye did receive a spirit of adoption in which we cry, `Abba--Father.'

`And ye--ye may not be called Rabbi, for one is your director--the Christ, and all ye are brethren;

Three things have been too wonderful for me, Yea, four that I have not known: — read the full passage →

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

And at dawn he came again to the temple, — read the full passage →

and He gave some <FI>as<Fi> apostles, and some <FI>as<Fi> prophets, and some <FI>as<Fi> proclaimers of good news, and some <FI>as<Fi> shepherds and teachers, — read the full passage →