Spiritual Families

Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him. — read the full passage →

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. — read the full passage →

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, — 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,

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

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.

a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

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. — read the full passage →

We love him, because he first loved us.

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.

(but if a man doesn’t know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)

one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

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

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling; — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

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.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

“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.

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to promise.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

Being let go, they came to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them. — read the full passage →

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you;

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.

I also tell you that you are Peter,and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hadeswill not prevail against it.

“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”