Honoring Your Father And Mother

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

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

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

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

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.

He answered them, “Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition? — read the full passage →

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. — read the full passage →

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Haven’t you even read this Scripture: ‘The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner.

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling;

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding.

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 →

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate. — read the full passage →

Now in those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered, “The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one:

His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him. — read the full passage →

This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

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

I also tell you that you are Peter,and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hadeswill not prevail against it.

Those who were in the boat came and worshiped him, saying, “You are truly the Son of God!”

I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.

For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God:

Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names. — read the full passage →

A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. — read the full passage →

and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on earth.”

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life — read the full passage →

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the departure comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction, — read the full passage →

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day, — read the full passage →

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.

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 →

and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, “There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

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.

For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? — read the full passage →

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.” — read the full passage →

When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’

As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”

When Peter entered, Cornelius met him, fell down at his feet, and worshiped him. — read the full passage →

Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles. — read the full passage →

This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living oracles to give to us,

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land? — read the full passage →

But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession, — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),

but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. — 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.

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

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. — read the full passage →

The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?” — read the full passage →

Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.

and didn’t know her sexually until she had given birth to her firstborn son. He named him Jesus.

Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took his wife to himself; — read the full passage →