Family Verses
God's design for family — love, honor, and commitment that reflect His covenant love.
{It is} not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
{Whoso} findeth a wife findeth a good {thing}, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
A foolish son {is} the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife {are} a continual dropping.
House and riches {are} the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife {is} from the LORD.
Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying. {for...: or, to his destruction: or, to cause him to die}
He that wasteth {his} father, {and} chaseth away {his} mother, {is} a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
Cease, my son, to hear the instruction {that causeth} to err from the words of knowledge.
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; {therefore} shall he beg in harvest, and {have} nothing. {cold: or, winter}
The just {man} walketh in his integrity: his children {are} blessed after him.
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness. {lamp: or, candle}
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set. {landmark: or, bound}
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: {landmark: or, bound}