The Church Family

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, — read the full passage →

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another; — read the full passage →

He stretched out his hand towards his disciples, and said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers! — read the full passage →

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer. — read the full passage →

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. — read the full passage →

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him. — read the full passage →

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

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.

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name: — read the full passage →

For neither was there among them any who lacked, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold, — read the full passage →

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.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity! — read the full passage →

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, — read the full passage →

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

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

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;

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.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

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

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

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

We love him, because he first loved us.

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

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.”

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.

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 I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

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!”

Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who believe in me through their word, — read the full passage →

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain. — 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.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching; — read the full passage →

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

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; — read the full passage →

If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don’t let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.

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

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.

Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; — read the full passage →

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence; — read the full passage →

Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

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

For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law, — 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.’

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

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: — read the full passage →

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

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

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

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of languages; and to another the interpretation of languages. — read the full passage →

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

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

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.

Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise: — read the full passage →

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling;

He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,

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.

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 →

“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

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.”

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

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.

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

Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly;

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body. — read the full passage →

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

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

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ; — read the full passage →

For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,