You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
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.
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.
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? — read the full passage →
If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, — read the full passage →
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. — 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.
This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them. — read the full passage →
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →
If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.
Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.
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 →
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them. — read the full passage →
But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,
My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — 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 →
See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
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.
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
He took a little child, and set him in their midst. Taking him in his arms, he said to them, — read the full passage →
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,
He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.
Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ — read the full passage →
Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.
and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; — read the full passage →
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →
But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the son of David!” they were indignant, — read the full passage →
Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in their midst, — read the full passage →
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.
Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
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 →
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;
Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:
“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
Then little children were brought to him, that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them. — read the full passage →
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”
Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.
We love him, because he first loved us.
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