Family Verses
God's design for family — love, honor, and commitment that reflect His covenant love.
Aristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you, and Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas, (touching whom ye received commandments: if he come unto you, receive him;)
Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians {which is} in God the Father and {in} the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace {be} unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, {even} Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father {doth} his children,
Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you. {direct: or, guide}
To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints. {saints: or, holy ones, or, angels}
But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.