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Children, as Christians obey your parents, for that is right. "You must honor your father and mother"??hat is the first commandment accompanied with a promise??3 "so that you may prosper and have a long life on earth." You fathers, too, must not irritate your children, but you must bring them up with Christian training and instruction.
If a widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety in the treatment of their own families, and to return the care of those who brought them up, for that is what God approves.
so as to train the younger women to be loving wives and mothers, and to be sensible, pure-minded, domestic, kind, and submissive to their husbands, so as not to bring reproach on God's message.
Near Jesus' cross stood his mother and her sister Mary, the daughter of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. So Jesus, seeing his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing near, said to his mother, "There is your son!" Then he said to his disciple, "There is your mother!" And from that time his disciple took her into his home.
Do not forget to be hospitable to strangers, for by being so some, without knowing it, have had angels as their guests.
Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes, and wild birds have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head!"
As they continued their journey, he came to a certain village, and a woman named Martha welcomed him to her house. She had a sister named Mary, who seated herself at the Master's feet, and listened to what he was saying. But Martha was worried with all she had to do for them, and she came up and said, "Master, does it make no difference to you that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me."read more.
The Master answered, "Martha, Martha, you are worried and anxious about many things, but our wants are few, indeed there is only one thing we need. For Mary has chosen the right thing, and it must not be taken away from her."
One Sabbath, when he went to take a meal at the house of a member of the council who was a Pharisee, they were watching him closely.
As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed begged to be allowed to go with him. And he would not permit it, but said to him, "Go home to your own people, and tell them all the Lord has done for you and how he took pity on you." And he went off and began to tell everybody in the Ten Towns all Jesus had done for him; and they were all astonished.
The man out of whom the demons had gone begged to go with him, but Jesus sent him away, and said, "Go back to your home, and tell all that God has done for you." And he went and told all over the town what Jesus had done for him.
Whatever town or village you come to, inquire for some suitable person, and stay with him till you leave the place. And as you go into his house, wish it well. If the house deserves it, the peace you wish it will come over it, but if it does not deserve it, your blessing will come back upon yourselves.read more.
And where no one will welcome you, or listen to you, leave that house or town and shake off its very dust from your feet.
And he said to them, "Whenever you go to stay at a house, remain in it till you leave that place. If any place refuses to receive you or to listen to you, when you leave it shake off the very dust from the soles of your feet as a warning to them."
Whatever house you go to stay in, remain there, and start on again from it. And where they will not welcome you, leave that town and shake off the very dust from your feet as a protest against them."
Whenever you go to stay at a house, first say, 'Peace to this household!' If there is anyone there who loves peace, your blessing will rest upon him, but if there is not, it will come back to you. Stay at the same house, eating and drinking what they offer you, for the workman deserves his pay. Do not change from one house to another.
And anyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or land for my sake will receive many times as much, and share eternal life.
Jesus said, "I tell you, there is no one who has given up home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or land for me and for the good news, but will receive now in this life a hundred times as much in homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and lands, though not without persecution??nd in the coming age eternal life.
And he said to them, "I tell you, there is no one who has given up home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the Kingdom of God who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the coming age eternal life."
To this day we have gone hungry, thirsty, and ill-clad; we have had rough usage, we have had no home,
Faith enabled Abraham to obey when God summoned him to leave his home for a region which he was to have for his own, and to leave home without knowing where he was going. Faith led him to make a temporary home as a stranger in the land he had been promised, and to live there in his tents, with Isaac and Jacob, who shared the promise with him. For he was looking forward to that city with the sure foundations, designed and built by God.
There are many rooms in my Father's house; if there were not, I would have told you, for I am going away to make ready a place for you.
So I tell you, make friends for yourselves with your ill-gotten wealth, so that when it fails, they may take you into the eternal dwellings.
For I know that if this earthly tent that I live in is taken down, God will provide me a building in heaven to live in, not built by human hands but eternal. This makes me sigh with longing to put on my heavenly dwelling, for if I do, I shall never find myself disembodied.read more.
For I who am still in my tent sigh with anxiety, because I do not want to be stripped of it, but to put on the other over it, so that what is only mortal may be absorbed in life. It is God himself who has prepared me for this change, and he has given me the Spirit as his guaranty. So I am confident. I know well that as long as I am at home in the body I am away from the Lord (for I have to guide my steps by faith, not by what is seen)??8 yet I am confident, and I prefer to leave my home in the body and make my home with the Lord. So whether I am at home or away from it, it is my ambition to please him. For we must all appear in our true characters before the tribunal of the Christ, each to be repaid with good or evil for the life he has lived in the body.
In fulfilment of his promise we expect new heavens and a new earth, where uprightness will prevail.
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You who are husbands must love your wives, just as Christ loves the church and gave himself for her,
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When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, are you more devoted to me than these others are?" Peter said to him, "Yes, Master, you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Then feed my lambs!"
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To those already married my instructions are??nd they are not mine, but the Lord's??hat a wife is not to separate from her husband.
You married women must subordinate yourselves to your husbands, as you do to the Lord,
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I tell you that whoever divorces his wife on any ground but her unfaithfulness, and marries another woman, commits adultery."
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of being reminded of your genuine faith, a faith that was seen first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice; I am sure it is in you also.
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Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and whoever marries a woman who has been divorced from her husband commits adultery.
If you are united to a wife, do not seek to be released. If you are not, do not seek a wife.
"They were told, 'Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.'
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But she, at her mother's instigation, said, "Give me John the Baptist's head here on a platter!"
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But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife on any ground, except unfaithfulness, makes her commit adultery, and anyone who marries her after she is divorced commits adultery.
To those already married my instructions are??nd they are not mine, but the Lord's??hat a wife is not to separate from her husband. If she does separate, she must remain single or else become reconciled to him. And a husband must not divorce his wife.
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and get the calf we are fattening, and kill it, and let us feast and celebrate, for my son here was dead, and he has come to life; he was lost, and he is found!' So they began to celebrate.
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And he would not permit it, but said to him, "Go home to your own people, and tell them all the Lord has done for you and how he took pity on you."
If a widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety in the treatment of their own families, and to return the care of those who brought them up, for that is what God approves.
Then he said to his disciple, "There is your mother!" And from that time his disciple took her into his home.
and to be sensible, pure-minded, domestic, kind, and submissive to their husbands, so as not to bring reproach on God's message.
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Marriage should be respected by everyone, and the marriage relation kept sacred, for vicious and immoral people God will punish.
The assistants must be only once married, and manage their children and their households well.
So I would have young women marry and have children and keep house and avoid giving our opponents any excuse for abusing us.
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But when the high priests and the scribes saw the wonders that he did and saw the boys shouting in the Temple, "God bless the Son of David!" they were indignant,
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A superintendent must be a man above reproach, only once married, temperate, sensible, a man of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach;
But he answered, "Did you never read that the Creator at the beginning made them male and female,
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Now while he was on the bench his wife sent to him to say, "Do not have anything to do with that upright man, for I have just had a painful experience in a dream about him."
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But Jesus said, "Let the children alone, and do not try to keep them from coming to me, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as they are."
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and for the hope of what is stored up for you in heaven. You first heard of it long ago when the true message of the gospel
For I know that if this earthly tent that I live in is taken down, God will provide me a building in heaven to live in, not built by human hands but eternal.
For he was looking forward to that city with the sure foundations, designed and built by God.
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So I tell you, make friends for yourselves with your ill-gotten wealth, so that when it fails, they may take you into the eternal dwellings.
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He said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Give orders that these two sons of mine sit one at your right and one at your left, when you are king!"
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and to be sensible, pure-minded, domestic, kind, and submissive to their husbands, so as not to bring reproach on God's message.
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and to be sensible, pure-minded, domestic, kind, and submissive to their husbands, so as not to bring reproach on God's message.
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After that I saw a great crowd which no one could count from every nation, tribe, people, and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, wearing white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.
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You fathers, too, must not irritate your children, but you must bring them up with Christian training and instruction.
Fathers, do not irritate your children, or they may lose heart.
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managing his own house well, and keeping his children under control and perfectly respectful??5 for if a man does not know how to conduct his own household, how can he look after a church of God?
The assistants must be only once married, and manage their children and their households well.
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And he would not permit it, but said to him, "Go home to your own people, and tell them all the Lord has done for you and how he took pity on you."
If a widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety in the treatment of their own families, and to return the care of those who brought them up, for that is what God approves.
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and appealed to him, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Come, lay your hands on her, so that she may get well and live!"
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There are many rooms in my Father's house; if there were not, I would have told you, for I am going away to make ready a place for you.
So I tell you, make friends for yourselves with your ill-gotten wealth, so that when it fails, they may take you into the eternal dwellings.
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Here it is the third time that I have been ready to come to see you, and I do not intend to be a burden to you now; for it is not your money but yourselves that I want; for children are not expected to lay up money for their parents, but parents for their children.
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Blessed are those who wash their robes, so as to have the right to approach the tree of life and to enter the gates of the city.
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"You must honor your father and mother"??hat is the first commandment accompanied with a promise??3 "so that you may prosper and have a long life on earth."
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If a widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety in the treatment of their own families, and to return the care of those who brought them up, for that is what God approves.
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The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of the property.' So he divided his property between them. Not many days later, the younger son gathered up all he had, and went away to a distant country, and there he squandered his property by fast living.
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People will be selfish, avaricious, boastful, arrogant, abusive, undutiful, ungrateful, irreverent,
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And a Canaanite woman of that district came out and screamed, "Son of David, take pity on me, sir! My daughter is dreadfully possessed by a demon!"
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"Master, take pity on my son, for he has epilepsy, and is very wretched; he often falls into the fire or into the water.
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of being reminded of your genuine faith, a faith that was seen first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice; I am sure it is in you also.
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But he, full of the holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw God's glory and Jesus standing at God's right hand. And he said, "Look! I can see heaven open, and the Son of Man standing at God's right hand!"
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but store up your riches in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy them, and where thieves cannot break in and steal them.
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So if you, bad as you are, know enough to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give what is good to those who ask him for it!
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In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a maiden there who was engaged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The maiden's name was Mary.
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When Jesus saw it, he was indignant, and said to them, "Let the children come to me; do not try to stop them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as they.
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And right then in the night, he took them and washed their wounds, and he and all his household were baptized immediately.
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She had a sister named Mary, who seated herself at the Master's feet, and listened to what he was saying.
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When she and her household were baptized, she appealed to us, and said, "If you are really convinced that I am a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house." And she insisted upon our coming.
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But do not be glad that the spirits submit to you, but be glad that your names are enrolled in heaven."
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And he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him, and pitied him, and ran and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
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Near Jesus' cross stood his mother and her sister Mary, the daughter of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.
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for the promise of it belongs to you and your children, as well as to all those far away whom the Lord our God calls to him."
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So the father knew that it was the very time when Jesus had said to him "Your son is going to live." And he and his whole household believed in Jesus.
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There are many rooms in my Father's house; if there were not, I would have told you, for I am going away to make ready a place for you.
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"Go back to your home, and tell all that God has done for you." And he went and told all over the town what Jesus had done for him.
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But you say, 'If a man says to his father or mother, "Anything of mine that might have been of use to you is Korban," ' that is, consecrated to God,
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He said to them, "How did you come to look for me? Did you not know that I must be at my Father's house?"
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Now the woman was a Greek, of Syrophoenician birth. And she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter.
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When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the babe stirred within her. And Elizabeth was filled with the holy Spirit
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And Mary said, "My heart extols the Lord,
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"There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and a couple of fish, but what is that among so many people?"
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A New Home
John 14:2There are many rooms in my Father's house; if there were not, I would have told you, for I am going away to make ready a place for you.
Education, At Home
Ephesians 6:4You fathers, too, must not irritate your children, but you must bring them up with Christian training and instruction.
Individuals going home
Matthew 12:44Then it says, 'I will go back to my house that I left,' and it goes and finds it unoccupied, cleaned, and all in order.
Not going home directly
Matthew 2:12Then, as they had been divinely warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their own country by another way.
Order In The Home
1 Timothy 2:1-2First of all, then, I urge that entreaties, prayers, petitions, and thanksgivings be offered for all men,
