Role Of Parents

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

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

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

Honour 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 have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.

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

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; — 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.

That they may teach the young women to be sober, 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 let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; — read the full passage →

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.

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.

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; — read the full passage →

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

This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. — 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: — read the full passage →

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

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

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; — read the full passage →

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 →

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

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

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope; — read the full passage →

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. — read the full passage →

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. — read the full passage →

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

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

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

And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces, — read the full passage →

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

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

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

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. — read the full passage →

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

While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, — read the full passage →

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

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

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

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, 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 →