Providing For Family

But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

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

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

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

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

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.

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

For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death.

Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.

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

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

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.

We love, because he first loved us.

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father, — read the full passage →

And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved, thou and thy house.

The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach; — read the full passage →

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:

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.

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

And my God shall supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

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

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, If any will not work, neither let him eat.

And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved, thou and thy house. — read the full passage →

They shall be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother in law against her daughter in law, and daughter in law against her mother in law.

to them that by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life:

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself: — read the full passage →

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.

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 →

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;

one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; — read the full passage →

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

who will render to every man according to his works:

But love your enemies, and do them good, and lend, never despairing; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of the Most High: for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfil. — read the full passage →

but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

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

These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing. — read the full passage →

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, — read the full passage →

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. — read the full passage →

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; that he might create in himself of the two one new man, so making peace;

having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

Blessedbethe God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ: — read the full passage →

but glory and honor and peace to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek:

Consider the ravens, that they sow not, neither reap; which have no store-chamber nor barn; and God feedeth them: of how much more value are ye than the birds!

And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.

And there came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? — read the full passage →

Be not therefore anxious, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? — read the full passage →

which in its own times he shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; — read the full passage →

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

The Spirit himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children 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.

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye should be joined to another, even to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.

But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.