Responsibility To Children

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.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

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

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

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

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

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

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.

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

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

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;

And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: — read the full passage →

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

I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;

Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)

For every man shall bear his own burden.

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

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? — read the full passage →

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. — read the full passage →

And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

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

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:

Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; — read the full passage →

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

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.

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

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. — read the full passage →

Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. — read the full passage →

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. — read the full passage →

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

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

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. — read the full passage →

But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judea beyond Jordan; — read the full passage →

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

Abstain from all appearance of evil.

That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

Do not err, my beloved brethren.

I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; — read the full passage →

A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.