Marriage, Family & Parenting
God designed marriage, family, and the raising of children as places to reflect his love and faithfulness. He calls husbands, wives, parents, and children to honor one another in the Lord. These verses bring his wisdom and grace into the home.
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
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.”
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.
One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.
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.
and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.
If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.