Stay Close To Your Parents

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

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

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

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

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;

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

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

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

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.

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

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

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

And it came to pass when Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judæa beyond the Jordan; — 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.

It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chasteneth not? — 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.

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 unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

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

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

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

And there came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? — 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.

It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his 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 Beroea: who when they were come thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. — read the full passage →

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

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

For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death.

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 →

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, give no occasion to the adversary for reviling:

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.

For I would have you know how greatly I strive for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself: — read the full passage →

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

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.

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

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

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

Think not that I came to send peace on the earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. — 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 →

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

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

Honor 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 lay his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them. — read the full passage →

Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to the will of God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; — read the full passage →

For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. — read the full passage →

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner with these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

We love, 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 train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →

that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience: — read the full passage →

and that from a babe thou hast known the sacred writings 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, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.