Family Verses
God's design for family — love, honor, and commitment that reflect His covenant love.
The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits. {that...: or, labouring first, must be partaker of the fruits}
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.
To Titus, {mine} own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, {and} peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.
If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, {sober: or, wise}
{To be} discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy {our} brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer,
Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Yet for love's sake I rather beseech {thee}, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds: