11 Bible Verses about Order In The Home
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I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men: for kings, and all who are in authority, that a quiet and peaceable life we may lead in all piety and gravity,
his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity,
These are heads of the house of their fathers: Sons of Reuben first-born of Israel are Hanoch, and Phallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these are families of Reuben.
'Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.
and I have declared to him that I am judging his house -- to the age, for the iniquity which he hath known, for his sons are making themselves vile, and he hath not restrained them,
The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; honour thy father and mother, which is the first command with a promise, 'That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live a long time upon the land.'read more.
And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord. The servants! obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ;
if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate --
that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children, sober, pure, keepers of their own houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.
The domestics! be subjecting yourselves in all fear to the masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the cross;
sober, pure, keepers of their own houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.