Role Of Parents

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

Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.

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

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a burden 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.

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

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

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.

But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise),

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

But if any widow hath children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to requite their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

But Peter and the apostles answered and said, We must obey God rather than men.

having been reminded of the unfeigned faith that is in thee; which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and, I am persuaded, in thee also.

Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise), — read the full passage →

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives; — read the full passage →

All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, even the fruit of righteousness.

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →

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

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; — read the full passage →

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

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

that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; — read the full passage →

Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness:

Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. — read the full passage →

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John; — read the full passage →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives; — read the full passage →

and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him; — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness, — read the full passage →

Honor widows that are widows indeed. — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our Saviour, and Christ Jesus our hope; — read the full passage →

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

There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.

These things therefore the soldiers did. But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. — read the full passage →

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

And he said unto them, How say they that the Christ is David’s son? — read the full passage →

And in his teaching he said, Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes, andto have salutations in the marketplaces, — read the full passage →

And Jesus answered and said, as he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that the Christ is the son of David? — read the full passage →

in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before times eternal;

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

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.

Take heed to yourselves: if thy brother sin, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter. — read the full passage →

Then spake Jesus to the multitudes and to his disciples, — read the full passage →

Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, — read the full passage →

Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should lay his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them. — read the full passage →

Servants, be obedient unto them that according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

And in the hearing of all the people he said unto his disciples, — read the full passage →

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! — read the full passage →