Providing For Family

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.

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

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

the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;

and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

pious, and fearing God with all his house, doing also many kind acts to the people, and beseeching God always,

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

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

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

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;

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

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.

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

we--we love him, because He--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--thou and thy house;'

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach, — read the full passage →

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you--so also ye;

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.

`Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

and my God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus;

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

for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat,

and they said, `Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved--thou and thy house;' — read the full passage →

a father shall be divided against a son, and a son against a father, a mother against a daughter, and a daughter against a mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.'

to those, indeed, who in continuance of a good work, do seek glory, and honour, and incorruptibility--life age-during;

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife--himself he doth love; — read the full passage →

if any one may say--`I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God--whom he hath not seen--how is he able to love?

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 →

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity, — read the full passage →

because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ <FI>is<Fi> head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

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

who shall render to each according to his works;

`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;

`Do not suppose that I came to throw down the law or the prophets--I did not come to throw down, but to fulfil; — read the full passage →

and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light--we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

Ministrants--let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,

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 →

These things came to pass in Bethabara, beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing, — read the full passage →

if, therefore, ye being evil, have known good gifts to give to your children, how much more shall your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens give good things to those asking him?

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

of whom the whole family in the heavens and on earth is named,

and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law, — read the full passage →

for we have known that all the creation doth groan together, and doth travail in pain together till now. — read the full passage →

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord; — read the full passage →

the enmity in his flesh, the law of the commands in ordinances having done away, that the two he might create in himself into one new man, making peace,

having foreordained us to the adoption of sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who did bless us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, — read the full passage →

and glory, and honour, and peace, to every one who is working the good, both to Jew first, and to Greek.

`Consider the ravens, that they sow not, nor reap, to which there is no barn nor storehouse, and God doth nourish them; how much better are ye than the fowls?

and all--as much as ye may ask in the prayer, believing, ye shall receive.'

And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, `Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?' — read the full passage →

therefore ye may not be anxious, saying, What may we eat? or, What may we drink? or, What may we put round? — read the full passage →

which in His own times He shall shew--the blessed and only potentate, the King of the kings and Lord of the lords, — read the full passage →

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

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

for ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye did receive a spirit of adoption in which we cry, `Abba--Father.'

So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;

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