Family Verses
God's design for family — love, honor, and commitment that reflect His covenant love.
Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all {men}, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
Grace {be} to you, and peace, from God our Father, and {from} the Lord Jesus Christ.
Blessed {be} the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly {places} in Christ: {places: or, things}
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: {in...: or, for the acknowledgement}
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. {desires: Gr. wills}
For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.