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

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

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.

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

We love him, because he first loved us.

(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.

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 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 →

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

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,

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

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.

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, — read the full passage →

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

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

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

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

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.

As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.

But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

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 any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

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

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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.

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

Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

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

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?”

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →