7 Bible Verses about Family Strength

from whom every family in heaven and on earth receives its name. [Note: Here Paul resumes the prayer he began in verse 1].

This is the reason that I bow my knees [in prayer] to the Father,

[In fact] a person's enemies will be members of his own family [i.e., in some cases].

Now the slave does not remain part of the family forever, [but] the son does.

[I pray] that, according to God's glorious abundance, He would empower you to become [spiritually] strong through His Holy Spirit in your inner person,

You people are descendants of these prophets and [recipients] of the Agreement God made with your forefathers when He said to Abraham [Gen. 12:3], 'And through your seed [i.e., your descendant Jesus] all the people of the earth will receive the blessings [of God].'

When His relatives [or friends] heard about this [i.e., all that He was doing], they went out to take custody of Him [for safety reasons?], for people were saying, "He has lost his mind."