Family Verses
God's design for family — love, honor, and commitment that reflect His covenant love.
Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? {who} among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
He shall cry unto me, Thou {art} my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
The days of our years {are} threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength {they be} fourscore years, yet {is} their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. {The days...: Heb. As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years}
Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
[A Psalm {or} Song for the sabbath day.] {It is a} good {thing} to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth.