4 Fathers, do not make your children angry, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
19 honor your father and mother,’and ‘you must love your neighbor as yourself.’"
10 Brothers, I urge all of you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to be in agreement and not to have divisions among you, so that you may be perfectly united in your understanding and opinions.
32 And be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another just as God has forgiven you in Christ.
4 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to respect their own family by repaying their parents, for this is pleasing in God's sight.
8 If anyone does not take care of his own relatives, especially his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
31 They answered, "Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you and your family will be saved."
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is the right thing to do.
2 "Honor your father and mother." This is a very important commandment with a promise:
20 Whoever says, "I love God," but hates his brother is a liar. The one who does not love the brother whom he has seen cannot love a God whom he has not seen.
2 Dear friends, we are now God's children, but what we will be like has not been revealed yet. We know that when Christ is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him as he is.
3 And everyone who has this hope based on him keeps himself pure, just as he is pure.
13 So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who keep asking him!"
1 When Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went to the territory of Judea on the other side of the Jordan.
2 Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.
3 Some Pharisees came to him in order to test him. They asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?"
4 He answered them,"Haven't you read that the one who madethem at the beginning ‘made them male and female’
5 and said, ‘That is why a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?
6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, man must never separate."
7 They asked him, "Why, then, did Moses order us ‘to give a certificate of divorce and divorce her’?"
8 He said to them,"It was because of your hardness of heart that Moses allowed you to divorce your wives. But from the beginning it was not this way.
9 Itell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery."
10 His disciples said to him, "If that is the relationship of a man with his wife, it's not worth getting married!"
11 But he said to them,"Not everyone can accept this saying, except those to whom celibacyhas been granted.
12 For some men are celibate from birth,while others are celibate because they have been made that way by others. Still others are celibate because they have made themselves that way for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let anyone accept this who can."
13 Then some little children were brought to him so that he might lay his hands on them and pray. But the disciples rebuked those who brought them.
14 Jesus, however, said,"Let the little children come to me, and stop keeping them away. For the kingdom of heaven belongs to people like these."
15 When he had laid his hands on them, he went on from there.
16 Just then a man came up to Jesus and said, "Teacher, what good deed should I do to have eternal life?"
17 Jesus said to him,"Why ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good.If you want to get into that life, you must keep the commandments."
18 The young man said to him, "Which ones?"Jesus said,"‘You must not murder,you must not commit adultery,you must not steal,you must not give false testimony,
19 honor your father and mother,’and ‘you must love your neighbor as yourself.’"
20 The young man said to him, "I have kept all of these. What do I still lack?"
21 Jesus said to him,"If you want to be perfect, go and sell what you own and give the moneyto the destitute, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come back and follow me."
22 But when the young man heard this statement he went away sad, because he had many possessions.
23 Then Jesus said to his disciples,"Truly I tell you, it will be hard for a rich person to get into the kingdom of heaven.
24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to squeeze through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into the kingdom of God."
25 When the disciples heard this, they were completely astonished and said, "Who, then, can be saved?"
26 Jesus looked at them intently and said,"For humans this is impossible, but for God all things are possible."
27 Then Peter said to him, "See, we have left everything and followed you. So what will we get?"
28 Jesus said to them,"Truly I tell you, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne in the renewed creation, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, governing the twelve tribes of Israel.
29 In fact, everyone who has left his homes, brothers, sisters, father, mother, children, or fields because of my name will receive a hundred times as muchand will inherit eternal life.
30 But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first."
8 If anyone does not take care of his own relatives, especially his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
4 Fathers, do not make your children angry, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
33 But each individual man among you must love his wife as he loves himself; and may the wife fear her husband.
6 But from the beginning of creation, ‘Godmade them male and female.’
7 ‘That is why a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife,
8 and the two will become one flesh.’So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
9 Therefore, what God has joined together, man must never separate."