Quotes About Family

But when our time there had ended, we set out on our journey. All the disciples, with their wives and children, accompanied us out of the city and knelt down on the beach to pray with us.

He had four unmarried daughters who prophesied.

But when the son of Paulís sister heard about the plot, he went into the barracks and told Paul.

Not only that, but Rebeccaís children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac.

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his fatherís wife.

For man did not come from woman, but woman from man.

Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.

For just as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God.

See, I am ready to come to you a third time, and I will not be a burden, because I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to the family of faith.

Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of Godís household,

from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.

“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

“Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise),

“that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth.”

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

Women, however, will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.

An overseer must manage his own household well and keep his children under control, with complete dignity.

For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for the church of God?

A deacon must be the husband of but one wife, a good manager of his children and of his own household.

older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to show godliness to their own family and repay their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.