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.

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

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

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

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 →

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. — read the full passage →

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

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 →

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

God spoke all these words, saying, — 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.”

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

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.

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

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 →

The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

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.”

Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.

Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.

A prudent man sees danger, and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children; — read the full passage →

May Yahweh our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us, nor forsake us;