Family Verses
God's design for family — love, honor, and commitment that reflect His covenant love.
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected {us}, and we gave {them} reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
Lest there {be} any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
Marriage {is} honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, {and} to keep himself unspotted from the world.
My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, {the Lord} of glory, with respect of persons.
But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
But the tongue can no man tame; {it is} an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.