Stay Close To Your Parents

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

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

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

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

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

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

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:

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

Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

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.

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

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.

He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

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.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

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 →

And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

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 →

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: — read the full passage →

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: — 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.

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? — 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.

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.

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

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.

If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them,

Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? — read the full passage →

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. — read the full passage →

And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

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.

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

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

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 →

Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: — read the full passage →

Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

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

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

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 →

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

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.

For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. — read the full passage →

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

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

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. — read the full passage →

What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. — read the full passage →

And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. — read the full passage →

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: — 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 →

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

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

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

The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. — read the full passage →

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; — read the full passage →

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

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

It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. — read the full passage →

My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

We love him, because he first loved us.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. — read the full passage →

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →

That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. — 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.

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

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