Family and Marriage (Greek)
· And I will betroth you to me for ever; yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving kindness, and in mercies. I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness: and you shall know the LORD.
Hos. 2:19-20
· Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it
Eph. 5:25
· Likewise, you husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor to the wife
1Pe. 3:7
· Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Eph. 5:33
· Let the husband render to the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife to the husband.
1Co. 7:3-5
· A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband
Pro. 12:4
· Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Heb. 13:4
· Like as a father pities his children, so the LORD pities them that fear him.
Ps. 103:13
· Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body. Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Eph. 5:22-24
· The beginning of strife is as when one lets out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
Pro. 17:14
· Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of the LORD.
Pro. 18:22
· Take you wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that you may be increased there, and not diminished.
Jer. 29:6
· Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing to the Lord. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Co. 3:18-21
· Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy? Pro. 19:14
· My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace to your head, and chains about your neck.
Pro. 1:8
· Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Pro. 22:6
· A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach; Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; One that rules well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?
1Ti. 3:2-5