Providing For Family

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

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

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.

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

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

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 wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

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 unto the Lord.

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

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

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

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

We love him, because he first loved us.

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

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

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; — read the full passage →

Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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

For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the Lord thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,

But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

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

My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: — read the full passage →

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

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

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

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

Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. — read the full passage →

He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children; — read the full passage →

But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;

Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;

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, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. — read the full passage →

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the 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, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

Who will render to every man according to his deeds:

But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.

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

Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand; — read the full passage →

For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.

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

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

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

These things were done in Bethabara beyond 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 which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,

But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made 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 →

If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. — read the full passage →

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.

The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. — read the full passage →

Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;

Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: — read the full passage →

But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:

Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?

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

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

Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? — read the full passage →

Which in his times he shall shew, 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 unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: — read the full passage →

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

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

Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. — read the full passage →

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.