Family Verses
God's design for family — love, honor, and commitment that reflect His covenant love.
Grace {be} unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and {from} the Lord Jesus Christ.
God {is} faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.
For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, {ye are} God's building. {husbandry: or, tillage}
I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn {you}.
For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet {have ye} not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.
It is reported commonly {that there is} fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
Nevertheless, {to avoid} fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.