Stepfathers

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 →

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,

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.

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

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

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

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

“‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

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

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

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

His parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover.

Abraham became the father of Isaac. Isaac became the father of Jacob. Jacob became the father of Judah and his brothers.

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

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

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

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

They said, “Isn’t this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, ‘I have come down out of heaven?’”

Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David;

Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” They were offended at him.

But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; for after his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit. — read the full passage →

Judah became the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar. Perez became the father of Hezron. Hezron became the father of Ram.

“Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘You shall be holy; for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.

On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.