Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
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.
“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →
doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
Give therefore to everyone what you owe: taxes to whom taxes are due; customs to whom customs; respect to whom respect; honor to whom honor.
Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.
Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →
Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.
The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no other commandment greater than these.”
Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;
For everything spoken by God is possible.”
Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
“that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.”
“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregardhis own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.
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 adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.
yet for love’s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;
“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”
Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →
Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →
the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you, — read the full passage →
Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.
You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,
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.
Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: WEB.