Providing For Family

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.

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.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction 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 a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

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

Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work.

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. 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 makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.

a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

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

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

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

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

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

Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

We love him, because he first loved us.

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

They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

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

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

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.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

You shall trade the money for whatever your soul desires, for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.

My God will 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.

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone will not work, neither let him eat.”

They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.” — read the full passage →

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

They will 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.”

“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

“‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

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

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children; — read the full passage →

But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children;

“Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.

“If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

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 →

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence; — read the full passage →

For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”

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.

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill. — read the full passage →

Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh comes, for it is close at hand: — read the full passage →

For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

He humbled you, and allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know; that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.

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

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

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

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

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law, — read the full passage →

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

If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this”; doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

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

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.

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

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

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ; — read the full passage →

But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

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 →

“Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’ — read the full passage →

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

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God; — read the full passage →

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

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

Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her: — read the full passage →

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.