Parental Love

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

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

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.

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

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

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

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 →

for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;'

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love--these three; and the greatest of these <FI>is<Fi> love.

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 →

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

fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins.

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;

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, `My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him,

and may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who did love us, and did give comfort age-during, and good hope in grace,

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

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

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.

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;

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, — read the full passage →

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

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

The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;

Jesus who <FI>is<Fi> from Nazareth--how God did anoint him with the Holy Spirit and power; who went through, doing good, and healing all those oppressed by the devil, because God was with him;

`None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.

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.

comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.

honour thy father and mother,

meekness, temperance: against such there is no law;

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

the love to the neighbour doth work no ill; the love, therefore, <FI>is<Fi> the fulness of law.

and if children, also heirs, heirs, indeed, of God, and heirs together of Christ--if, indeed, we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.

`And having risen, he went unto his own father, and he being yet far distant, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and having ran he fell upon his neck and kissed him;

`But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil;

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;

we--we love him, because He--He first loved us;

In this manifest are the children of God, and the children of the devil; every one who is not doing righteousness, is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother,

beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is;

and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it--it doth yield.

aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers, — read the full passage →

and let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also ye were called in one body, and become thankful.

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

according as it hath been written, `Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.'

And he came to Derbe and Lystra, and lo, a certain disciple was there, by name Timotheus son of a certain woman, a believing Jewess, but of a father, a Greek, — read the full passage →

And Jesus said to him, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding-- — read the full passage →

`As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform;

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love; — 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;

My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

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

If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' --ye do well;

Hearken, my brethren beloved, did not God choose the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the reign that He promised to those loving Him?

So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten?

and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, `My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him, — read the full passage →

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us, — read the full passage →

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain <FI>is<Fi> , but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh.

for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of <FI>their<Fi> husbands, lovers of <FI>their<Fi> children,

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness, — read the full passage →

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times, — read the full passage →