4 Servants, obey your boss. Respect him with all your heart and try to please him as you would Christ.
19 Respect your father and your mother. Love your neighbour as you love yourself.
4 If they have children or grandchildren, they should learn that the first place to do Gods work is in the home to help their own family. They should help their parents because their parents have helped them. This will please God.
33 However, each one of you should love his wife as he loves himself. And the wife should respect her husband.
13 You are wrong and yet you know how to give good things to your children. Much more, the Father in heaven will give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him.
20 If anyone says, I love God,and he hates his brother, he is telling a lie. If he does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
31 They replied, Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. All the people in your house must do the same.
10 My Christian brothers, I beg you all in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, agree in what you say. Do not divide into groups. You should all think in the same way and decide to do the same things.
8 A man must care for his own people. At least he must care for his family. If he does not care for them, he shows that he does not believe in God. He is worse than one who has never believed.
32 Be kind to one another. Have a loving and understanding heart. Forgive one another because God has forgiven you for Christs sake.
1 When Jesus had finished this talk, he left Galilee. He went away to the part of Judea that is on the other side of the Jordan River.
2 Many people followed him. He healed them there.
3 The Pharisees came to Jesus to test him. They asked, Is it right for a man to send his wife away from him for any reason?
4 Jesus answered, Have you not read this? From the time God first made people, he made them a man and a woman.
5 God said, "A man must leave his father and mother and must stay with his wife. The two of them will be like one person."
6 So they are not two people any more, but they are one person. Man must not separate what God has joined together.
7 They said to Jesus, Then why did Moses make this law? He said that a man may give his wife a paper to show that he does not want her any more. Then he may send her away.
8 Jesus said to them, Moses wrote that law because your hearts are so hard. That is why he let you send your wives away. But in the beginning it was not that way.
9 But I tell you this. No man may send his wife away unless she has committed adultery. If he does, and if he marries another woman, he commits adultery. And if a man marries a woman who has been sent away by her husband, he commits adultery.
10 The disciples said to him, If a man and woman are like that, then it is better not to marry.
11 Jesus said, Not everyone can agree to that. But God has chosen some not to be married.
12 Some men cannot marry because they were born that way. Some were made that way by men. Others said, "I will not marry, for the sake of the kingdom of heaven." Anyone who can do this, should do it.
13 Then people brought children to Jesus. They wanted him to put his hands on them and ask God to bless them. The disciples tried to stop the people.
14 But Jesus said, Let the children come to me. Do not try to stop them. The kingdom of heaven belongs to people like them.
15 So he put his hands on the children. Then he went away.
16 A man came to Jesus and said, Teacher, what good thing must I do so that I will live for ever?
17 Jesus said, Why do you ask me about what is good? Only God is good. If you want to live for ever, you must keep Gods laws.
18 The man said, Which laws? Jesus said, Do not kill. Do not commit adultery. Do not steal. Do not tell lies.
19 Respect your father and your mother. Love your neighbour as you love yourself.
20 The young man said, I have kept all those laws. What more must I do?
21 Jesus said, If you want to be all right, go and sell everything you have. Give the money to poor people. For this you will be rich in heaven. Then come and go with me.
22 When the young man heard that, he was sad, because he was very rich. So he went away.
23 Then Jesus said to his disciples, I tell you the truth. It is very hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
24 And I tell you this also. It is easier for a big animal like a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
25 When the disciples heard this, they were very much surprised. They said, Then who can be saved?
26 Jesus looked at them and said, Men cannot do it, but God can do anything.
27 Then Peter said, See, we have left all things and have come with you. So what will we have?
28 Jesus said to them, I tell you the truth. In the new world, the Son of Man will be great. He will sit on his throne of glory big chair of a king to rule. Then you who have come with me will also sit on twelve thrones. You will judge the twelve tribes of Israel.
29 If anyone has left his house, his brothers, his sisters, his father, his mother, his children, or his farms for my sake, he will receive a hundred times as much as he has left. And he will live for ever.
30 But many people who are first will be last, and those who are last will be first.
1 Children, obey your parents as the Lord wants you to. This is the right thing to do. 2,
2 Respect your father and mother. This is the first law of God with a promise: So that all will be well with you, and that you may live long on earth.
2 My dear brothers, we are Gods children now. No one knows yet what we shall be like. But we know that when Jesus comes, we will be like him. We will see him as he really is.
3 Everyone who has this hope about Christ makes his life holy. He makes his life holy and clean, just as Christ is holy.
6 From the time God first made people, he made them man and woman.
7 That is why a man must leave his father and mother and stay with his wife.
8 The two of them will be like one person. So they are not two people any more, but they are one person.
9 Man must not separate what God has joined together.
4 Servants, obey your boss. Respect him with all your heart and try to please him as you would Christ.
8 A man must care for his own people. At least he must care for his family. If he does not care for them, he shows that he does not believe in God. He is worse than one who has never believed.