78 Bible Verses about Home

A newly married man must not be drafted into the army or charged with any duty. He shall be free at home one year and shall give happiness to the wife he has married.

Husbands love your wives, even as Christ also loved the congregation and gave himself up for it.

The man said: This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called 'Woman.' This is because she was taken out of Man. This is the reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife. They will become one flesh.

Let your fountain be blessed. Rejoice with the wife of your youth.

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of the life he has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity. That is your share in this life and in your labor under the sun.

The king was shaken by the news. He went to the room above the gate and cried. My son Absalom! He said. My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died in your place! Absalom, my son, my son!

He who obeys the law is a wise son. But he who is a companion of worthless men shames his father.

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

A wise son makes a father glad: but a foolish son is sorrow (depression) (grief) for his mother.

A foolish (stupid) son is a grief to his father and bitterness to his mother.

When they had eaten Jesus said to Simon Peter: Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these? He said: Yes Lord; you know I have affection for you. Jesus said to him: Feed my lambs.

Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Be on your guard! Make sure you do not forget, as long as you live, what you have seen with your own eyes. Teach them to your children and your grandchildren.

Carefully teach them to your sons. Talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way. Speak about them when you lie down, and when you rise up.

Teach them to your children! Talk about them in your home and away. Speak of them when you lie down or get up.

She watches over her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness.

They may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

When the king's order is made public through all his great kingdom all the wives will give honor to their husbands, great as well as small.

To the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord commands do not let the wife depart from her husband.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

If a man commits adultery with the wife of an Israelite, both he and the woman should be put to death.

Do not commit adultery.

The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight. He says: 'No eye will see me.' Then he disguises his face.

You have heard it was said, 'You should not commit adultery.'

I tell you, whoever divorces his wife, except for fornication, and marries another, commits adultery. And he who marries her when she is divorced, commits adultery.

Prepare a slaughtering place! The sons of this king will die because of their ancestors' sins. None of them will ever rule the earth or cover it with cities.

Do not worship them or serve them. I, Jehovah your God, am a God demanding exclusive devotion. (I do not tolerate rivals.) I will not share your affection with any other god. I punish children for their parents' sins to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.

I keep my promise for thousands of generations and forgive evil and sin. But I will not fail to punish children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation for the sins of their fathers.

Jehovah is patient, forever loving; He forgives wrongdoing and disobedience. He never lets the guilty go unpunished. In fact he punishes children for their parents' sins to the third and fourth generation.

Your children will be shepherds in the desert for forty years. They will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies dead in the desert.

Abram said: O Jehovah God, what will you give me? I continue childless! The heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus.

There was a man named Manoah from the town of Zorah. He was a member of the tribe of Dan. His wife was not able to have children.

Now Sarai was barren. She had no children.

He had two wives, one named Hannah and the other Peninnah. Peninnah was the mother of children. Hannah had no children.

Michal, Saul's daughter, never had any children.

I am mindful of your sincere faith, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am sure that it is in you as well.

Jehovah blessed Jehoshaphat because he followed the example of his father's early life and did not worship Baal.

As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father did, uprightly and with a true heart, doing what I have given you orders to do, keeping my laws and my decisions;

Jehoshaphat carefully followed the example his father Asa had set and did what Jehovah considered right.

He did what Jehovah considered right, as his father Amaziah had done.

A man who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery. The man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery. [Jesus continued to tell illustrations.]

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek a release. Are you released from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

Let us make an agreement with our God to put away all the wives and all their children, if it seems right to my lord and to those who go in fear of the words of our God. Let it be done in keeping with the law.

Again, it was said, 'Whoever gets rid of his wife has to give her a certificate of divorce.'

When a man marries a woman and later decides he does not love her because he found something he does not like about her he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house.

I am giving you one more mountain ridge than your brothers. I took it from the Amorites with my own sword and bow.

Hosah the Merarite had sons: Shimri the first although he was not the firstborn, his father had appointed him the first,

Isaac preferred Esau. This is because he enjoyed eating the animals Esau killed. Rebecca preferred Jacob.

He put the concubines and their children first, then Leah and her children, and finally Rachel and Joseph at the rear.

Jacob (Israel) loved Joseph more than all his sons because Joseph had been born in Israel's old age. So he made Joseph a special multicolored robe with long sleeves.

While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

Jehoram was in firm control of the kingdom. He had all his brothers killed, and also some Israelite officials.

He went to his father's house at Ophrah. There on top of a single stone he killed his seventy brothers, Gideon's sons. Gideon's youngest son Jotham hid and therefore was not killed.

Absalom gave an order to his servants: Watch now and when Amnon begins to feel good from drinking too much wine, I will tell you, Attack Amnon. Then kill him. Do not be afraid. I give this order. Be strong and courageous.

King Solomon sent Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada to attack and kill him.

He sinned against Jehovah, following the wicked example of his father Ahab, his mother Jezebel, and King Jeroboam, who had led Israel into sin.

Prompted by her mother, she said: Give me John the Baptist's head on a platter.

I said to their children in the desert: Do not live by the laws of your ancestors. Do not obey their rules or dishonor yourselves with their disgusting idols.

Ahaziah also followed the ways of Ahab's family, because his mother gave him advice that led him to sin.

They have walked after the stubbornness of their heart and after the Baals as their fathers taught them.

I say to you that everyone divorcing his wife, except for the reason of fornication, makes her liable to commit adultery. And if she marries again, the man she marries also commits adultery.

This is the reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife. They will become one flesh.

To the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord commands do not let the wife depart from her husband. If she leaves, let her remain unmarried or become reconciled to her husband. A husband should not divorce his wife.

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and unite with his wife.

That which God has joined together let not man take apart (separate).

I took Abraham, your ancestor, from the land across the Euphrates and led him through the whole land of Canaan. I gave him many descendants. I gave him Isaac,

Esau looked around and saw the women and the children. He asked: Who are these people with you? Jacob answered: These are the children whom God has been good enough to give me.

He makes a childless woman a joyful mother. Praise Jehovah!

Children are an inheritance from Jehovah. They are a blessing from him.

They are my sons. God has given them to me here in Egypt. Bring them to me, Jacob said. I want to give them my blessing. Joseph brought the boys to him.

He who loves wisdom makes his father rejoice. But he who keeps company with fornicators wastes his wealth.

A wise son makes a father glad. A foolish man despises his mother.

The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice and he who gives birth to a wise child will receive joy from him.

Be wise, my son, and make my heart happy and I will have an answer for anyone who criticizes (taunts) (torments) me.

Get the prize calf and kill it. Let us celebrate with a feast! My son was dead. Now he is alive. He was lost. Now he has been found. The feasting began.'

Jesus told him: Go to your house and to your friends and tell them about the great things God did for you and how he had mercy on you.

A newly married man must not be drafted into the army or charged with any duty. He shall be free at home one year and shall give happiness to the wife he has married.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show righteousness towards their own family, and to repay their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Then he said to the disciple, Look, your mother! That hour forward the disciple took her to his home.

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God will not be (defamed) dishonored.

Let marriage be honorable among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled: for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

The man who finds a wife finds a good thing. He obtains favor from Jehovah.

Get married and have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons and let your daughters get married so they can have sons and daughters. Grow in number there and do not decrease.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for reviling.

Then I gave orders for a time of going without food, there by the Ahava River, so that we might make ourselves low before our God in prayer, requesting from him a safe journey for us and for our little ones and for all our substance.

There was not a word of all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.

All the people from Judah, their infants, wives, and children were standing in front of Jehovah.

On that day they made great offerings and were glad. God made them glad with great joy. The women and the children were glad with them. The joy of Jerusalem came to the ears of those who were far off.

The chief priests and the scribes saw the powerful works he did. They heard the children crying out in the Temple: Glory to the son of David. This made them very angry.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate in habits, sound in mind, orderly, hospitable, qualified to teach;

A blameless man will be the husband of one wife. He will have children that believe and who are not accused of violence and disobedience.

He must not take many wives or his heart will turn astray. He must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold.

Did God make you one? Your flesh and spirit belong to him. What does God look for but godly descendants? Do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.

He answered: Have you not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female?

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child. The rod of discipline (instruction) will drive it far from him.

Correct your son while there is hope. Do not contribute to his death.

Do not withhold discipline from a child. If you spank him with a stick he will not die.

He who spares the rod (authority) hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines (instructs) him promptly.

Elisha went to Shunem, where a rich woman lived. She invited him to a meal. From that time on every time he went to Shunem he would have his meals at her house. She said to her husband: I know that this man who comes here often is a holy man. Let us build a small room on the roof, and put a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp in it. He can stay there when he visits us.

While he was seated in judgment his wife sent a message to him. She said, Do not judge that righteous man. I have had much trouble this day in a dream because of him.

Manoah told his wife: We will die, for we have seen God (a God-like being)! His wife answered: If Jehovah wanted to kill us he would not accept our offerings. He would not have shown us all this or told us these things.

The queen came into the banquet hall. She said: O king, may you live for a very long time: do not let your thoughts trouble you or change your countenance. There is a man in your kingdom who has the spirit of the holy gods. In your fathers day, light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him. King Nebuchadnezzar, your father, made him master of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and soothsayers. Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar, has an excellent spirit, knowledge, and understanding for interpreting dreams, showing of dark sentences, and dissolving doubts. Let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.

His father said: Go and find out how your brothers and the sheep are doing. Then come back and let me know. So he sent him from Hebron Valley. Joseph was near Shechem,

When you leave me today two men will be at Rachel's grave on the border of Benjamin at Zelzah. They will tell you: 'We have found the donkeys you are looking for. Your father no longer cares about them. Instead he is worried about you. He keeps asking: What can I do to find my son?'

Is the young man Absalom all right? The king asked. Ahimaaz answered: I saw a lot of confusion when Joab sent me away. I did not know what it meant.

Every day Mordecai took his walk before the square of the women's house, to see how Esther was and what would be done to her.

She came to him and convinced him to ask of her father for a field. She dismounted her donkey and Caleb said to her: What do you wish?

Leah said: God has presented me with a wonderful gift. This time my husband will honor me, because I have given him six sons. So she named him Zebulun.

Ask anything as the bride price, no matter how expensive. I will do anything. Just let me marry Dinah.

If her father refuses to give her to him, he must pay an amount of money equal to the bride price for virgins.

Jesus said: Let the little ones (children) come to me. Do not keep them away: for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.

The children born to a man when he is young are like arrows in the hand of a warrior. Blessed is the man who has filled his quiver with them. He will not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the city gate.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine inside your home. Your children will be like young olive trees around your table.

Grandchildren are the crowns of old men. Fathers take pride in their children.

Carefully teach them to your sons. Talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way. Speak about them when you lie down, and when you rise up.

In the future your son will ask you: 'What is the meaning of these laws and regulations that Jehovah our God has commanded you?'

His father and mother shall seize him, and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gateway of his hometown.

This is because of the hope reserved for you in heaven. You heard about this hope from the word of truth, the good news.

We know that if our earthly house (human body) (habitation of life) is destroyed; we have a building from God. It is an everlasting house in the heavens, not made with human hands.

He looked for the city having real foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Jesus continued: I tell you, make friends for yourselves with worldly wealth. That way when it gives out, you will be welcomed in the eternal home.

Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

The living, yes the living praise you, as I am doing today! Fathers tell their children about your faithfulness.

Rise up! Cry out in the night at the beginning of the night watches. Let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of Jehovah. Lift up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down starving in every street.

Elisha left Jericho to go to Bethel. On the way some boys came out of a town and taunted and made fun of him. They shouted: Get out of here, baldy!

Even young children despise me. If I stand up, they make fun of me.

They have attacked me on my right side like a mob. They trip my feet and then prepare ways to destroy me.

People will oppress each other. Everyone will harass his neighbor. The young will tyrannize the old. The common people will taunt their superiors.

The king ordered Joab, Abishai, and Ittai: Treat the young man Absalom gently for my sake. All the troops heard him give the commanders this order regarding Absalom.

David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and lay on the ground all night.

King David longed for Absalom once people had consoled him over Amnon's death.

All his sons and daughters came to comfort him. However, he refused to be comforted. He said: I will go down to the grave still mourning for my son. So he continued to mourn for his son Joseph.

Jacob replied: My son will not go with you. His brother is dead, and he is the only one left. If any harm comes to him on the trip you are taking, the grief would drive this gray-haired old man to his grave!

Jacob said to Joseph: Now I am ready to die. Now that I have seen you and know that you are still alive.

By the rivers of Babylon, we sat down and cried as we remembered Zion. In the midst of it we hung our harps on poplar trees.

It was there that those who had captured us demanded that we sing. Those who guarded us wanted us to entertain them. They said: Sing a song from Zion for us! How could we sing Jehovah's song in a foreign land?

If I forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget how to play the harp. Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.

By the rivers of Babylon, we sat down and cried as we remembered Zion. In the midst of it we hung our harps on poplar trees.

It was there that those who had captured us demanded that we sing. Those who guarded us wanted us to entertain them. They said: Sing a song from Zion for us! How could we sing Jehovah's song in a foreign land?

If I forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget how to play the harp. Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.

What is your desire? he asked. She said to him: Let my two sons be seated, the one at your right hand, and the other at your left, in your kingdom.

Jacob (Israel) loved Joseph more than all his sons because Joseph had been born in Israel's old age. So he made Joseph a special multicolored robe with long sleeves.

He gave them an account of the glories of his wealth. The number of children he had. He recalled the ways in which he had been honored by the king. How the king put him over the captains and servants of the king.

Wine is treacherous and never allows an arrogant man to rest. He never stays home. He has a large appetite like the grave. Like death he is never satisfied. He gathers all nations and collects all the people.

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God will not be (defamed) dishonored.

Withdraw your foot from your neighbor's house; or he will tire of you and hate you.

Wine is treacherous and never allows an arrogant man to rest. He never stays home. He has a large appetite like the grave. Like death he is never satisfied. He gathers all nations and collects all the people.

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God will not be (defamed) dishonored.

Withdraw your foot from your neighbor's house; or he will tire of you and hate you.

They shall say to the elders of his city: This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious! He will not obey us! He is a glutton and a drunkard.

Absalom did this with every Israelite who came to the king for judgment. That way he won their loyalty.

Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept loudly. Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's nephew and that he was Rebekah's son. She ran and told her father. As soon as Laban heard the news about his sister's son Jacob, he ran to meet him. He embraced and kissed him and brought him into his home. Then Jacob told Laban all that had happened. read more.
Laban said: You are indeed my own flesh and blood. Jacob stayed there a whole month. Laban said to Jacob: You should not work for me for nothing just because you are my relative. How much pay do you want? Laban had two daughters. The older was named Leah and the younger Rachel. Leah had soft eyes and Rachel was shapely and very beautiful. Jacob was in love with Rachel, so he said: I will work seven years for you, if you will let me marry Rachel. Laban answered: It is better that I give her to you than to anyone else. Stay here with me. Jacob worked seven years for Laban. The time seemed like only a few days, because he loved Rachel so much.

One day Samson traveled to Timnah. He noticed a young Philistine woman. He went home and told his father and mother: A Philistine woman at Timnah caught my attention. Get her for me. I want to marry her. His father and mother asked him: Why do you go to those heathen Philistines to get a wife? Can you not find someone in our own family or among all our people? Samson told his father: I like her! She is the one I want. Get her for me. read more.
His parents did not know Jehovah was leading Samson to do this. Jehovah was looking for an opportunity to fight the Philistines. At this time the Philistines were ruling Israel. Samson went to Timnah with his father and mother. When they traveled through the vineyards he heard a young lion roaring. Suddenly the power of Jehovah made Samson strong. He tore the lion apart with his bare hands, as if it were a young goat. But he did not tell his parents what he had done. Then he went and talked to the young woman. He wanted her. A few days later Samson returned to marry her. On the way he left the road to look at the lion he had killed. He found a swarm of bees and some honey inside the dead body. He scraped the honey out into his hands and ate it as he walked along. Then he went to his father and mother and gave them some. They ate it, but Samson did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the dead body of a lion. Samson's father went to the woman's house. Samson gave a banquet there. This was a custom among the young men.

After this I saw a great crowd that no man could number. It was from all nations, and tribes, and people, and tongues. It stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes. They had palm branches in their hands.

I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. There was no more sea.

When Esau was forty he married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite. These two women brought a lot of grief to his parents, Isaac and Rebekah.

Rebekah said to Isaac: I cannot stand Hittite women! I would rather die than see Jacob marry one of them.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of God.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, that they not be discouraged.

one who manages well his own house, having his children in subjection with all seriousness;

Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

The other wife did everything possible to make her unhappy. This is because Jehovah had not given her children. Year after year when Peninnah went to the Temple of Jehovah, she kept on provoking Hannah. It bothered Hannah so much she wept and did not eat.

Rachel had not borne Jacob any children. As a result, she became jealous of her sister and said to Jacob: Give me children, or I will die.

Jesus told him: Go to your house and to your friends and tell them about the great things God did for you and how he had mercy on you.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show righteousness towards their own family, and to repay their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

The children born to a man when he is young are like arrows in the hand of a warrior. Blessed is the man who has filled his quiver with them. He will not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the city gate.

The Almighty was still with me, and my children were all around me.

Both father and child immediately shouted: I have faith make my faith stronger.

He pleaded with him saying: My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her that she will be healed and live.

In my Father's house are many dwelling places. If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

Jesus continued: I tell you, make friends for yourselves with worldly wealth. That way when it gives out, you will be welcomed in the eternal home.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you. I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you. The children should not provide for the parents, but the parents for the children.

By indolence the building decays; and through idleness of the hands the house collapses.

Give my son Solomon a wholehearted desire to obey everything that you command and to build the Temple for which I have made these preparations.

They shall say to the elders of his city: This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious! He will not obey us! He is a glutton and a drunkard.

Cursed is the man who dishonors his father or mother. All the people will say: Amen.

Joash began to rule when he was seven years old. He ruled for forty years in Jerusalem. His mother was Zibiah from Beersheba.

Honor your father and your mother, as Jehovah your God commands you and your days will be prolonged and things will go well with you, in the land Jehovah gives you.

Blessed are those who obey his commandments. They have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates of the city.

He turned them over to the Gibeonites. They hanged all seven of them on the mountain near the place where Jehovah was worshiped. This happened right at the beginning of the barley harvest. Rizpah daughter of Aiah spread some sackcloth on a nearby rock. She would not let the birds land on the bodies during the day. She kept the wild animals away at night. She stayed there from the beginning of the harvest until it started to rain.

Is there anyone here engaged to be married? If so, he should go home. Otherwise, if he is killed in battle, someone else will marry the woman he is engaged to.

Jacob was in love with Rachel, so he said: I will work seven years for you, if you will let me marry Rachel. Laban answered: It is better that I give her to you than to anyone else. Stay here with me. Jacob worked seven years for Laban. The time seemed like only a few days, because he loved Rachel so much.

He who is greedy of gain troubles his own house. But he who hates gifts will live.

You should not take this worthless person Nabal seriously. He is like his name. His name is Nabal (Godless Fool). He is foolish. But I did not see the young men you sent.

It is better to dwell alone in the wilderness than with an angry contentious (quarreling and angry) woman.

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

A wise son makes a father glad. A foolish man despises his mother.

There is a generation that curses their father, and doe not bless their mother.

Jonathan told him: When I shoot the arrows, you run and find them for me. The boy started running, and Jonathan shot an arrow so that it would go beyond him.

Please let me return to my hometown. There I can someday be buried near my father and mother. My servant Chimham can go with you. You can treat him as your own.

David grew homesick. He said: I wish someone would bring me a drink of water from the well by the gate at Bethlehem!

David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and lay on the ground all night.

I swear to you that I will cause someone from your own family to bring trouble to you. You will see it when I take your wives from you and give them to another man. He will have intercourse with them in broad daylight.

Her children arise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her.

Finally, Saul said to David: Here is my oldest daughter Merab. I will give her to you as your wife if you prove yourself to be a warrior for me and fight Jehovah's battles. Saul thought: I must not lay a hand on him. Let the Philistines do that.

Please let me return to my hometown. There I can someday be buried near my father and mother. My servant Chimham can go with you. You can treat him as your own.

David grew homesick. He said: I wish someone would bring me a drink of water from the well by the gate at Bethlehem!

Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise.

Listen to me, my children: for blessed are those who practice my ways.

I love those who love me. Those who earnestly seek me will find me.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show righteousness towards their own family, and to repay their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Joseph's brothers were jealous of him. His father kept thinking about the whole matter.

So Esau bore a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. Esau said to himself: The days of mourning for my father are near. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.

The younger one said to him, Father I want my share of the property. He divided his property between his two sons. In a short time the younger son sold his share of the property. He left home with the money and traveled to a far away country where he wasted his money in reckless living.

I told him I would hand down a long lasting judgment against his household because he knew about his sons' sin. They were cursing God but he did not restrain them.

Sarah, my master's wife, did not have any children until she was very old. Then she had a son, and my master has given him everything.

His mother made him a little robe. She brought it to him when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

For men will be lovers of their own selves, covetous (lovers of money), arrogant, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful (ungrateful), unholy,

She sat across from him at a distance. She thought: I cannot watch the boy die. She sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice and wept.

A woman of Canaan came crying and saying: Have pity on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is greatly troubled with an unclean spirit.

His mother made him a little robe. She brought it to him when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

You did not even let me give a kiss to my sons and my daughters. This was a foolish thing you did.

The Syrians carried off a little Israelite girl during one of their raids against Israel. The girl became a servant of Naaman's wife. She said to her mistress: I wish my master could go to the prophet who lives in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.

Samuel served before Jehovah as a child girded with a linen ephod.

It appears that you are going because your heart's desire is for your father's house. But why have you taken my gods?

Hobab answered: No, I am going back to my native land.

Lord, have mercy on my son. He has mental problems and is in great pain. He frequently falls into the fire and into the water.

Abraham said to God: If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!

When the Ark of Jehovah came to the City of David, Saul's daughter Michal looked out of a window and saw King David leaping and dancing in Jehovah's presence. She despised him in her heart.

So Esau bore a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. Esau said to himself: The days of mourning for my father are near. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.

He said to Moses: Please, do not make us suffer this punishment for our foolish sin.

This time Hannah did not go. She told her husband: As soon as the child is weaned, I will take him to the Temple of Jehovah, where he will stay all his life.

I am mindful of your sincere faith, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am sure that it is in you as well.

Isaac brought Rebecca into the tent that his mother Sarah had lived in. She became his wife. Isaac loved Rebecca. He was comforted for the loss of his mother.

It appears that you are going because your heart's desire is for your father's house. But why have you taken my gods?

Hobab answered: No, I am going back to my native land.

He tends his flock like a shepherd. He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart. He gently leads those that have young.

Being full of the Holy Spirit, he gazed intently into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. He said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God.

Accumulate wealth in heaven where neither moth nor rust consumes, and where thieves do not break in and steal.

The sons did not follow their father's example but turned to dishonest ways of making money. They took bribes and denied people justice.

Even though you are a sinner, you know how to give good gifts to your children. Think how much more your Father in heaven gives good things to those who ask him!

Jacob (Israel) loved Joseph more than all his sons because Joseph had been born in Israel's old age. So he made Joseph a special multicolored robe with long sleeves.

She answered: Give me a blessing. For you have given me a land in the south which includes springs of water. He gave her the upper springs, and the lower springs.

If you are not willing to serve him, decide today whom you will serve, the gods your ancestors worshiped in Mesopotamia or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are now living. As for my family and me, we will serve Jehovah.'

Can a woman forget her nursing child? Will she have no compassion on the child from her womb? Although mothers forget, I will not forget you.

With a heart full of love for her son the real mother said: Please, Your Majesty, do not kill the child! Give it to her! But the other woman said: Do not give it to either of us cut it in two.

The servant carried the boy back to his mother. She held him in her lap until noon. Then the boy died.

Then Sarai said to Abram: You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my servant in your arms; she knows she is pregnant and she despises me. May Jehovah judge between you and me.

Joseph's brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them. They hated Joseph and could not speak to him in a friendly way.

Sarah said: God brought me laughter. Everyone who hears about this will laugh on account of me.

Sarah said: God brought me laughter. Everyone who hears about this will laugh on account of me.

The next month God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth in Galilee to a virgin named Mary. Mary was engaged to Joseph, a descendant of King David.

Even if my father and mother abandon (forsake) me, Jehovah will take care of me.

His father never confronted him by asking: Why have you done this?

But when the servants gave her the king's order, Vashti the queen said she would not come. The king was very angry. His heart was burning with wrath.

But when Jesus saw it he was moved with indignation. He said: Allow the little children to come to me! Do not turn them away for they belong to the kingdom of God.

That very hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds. Then he and all his family were baptized.

Her sister Mary sat at the Lord's feet and heard his word.

When she and her household were baptized she came to us saying, If you judge me to be faithful to God, come to my house, and stay there. She absolutely insisted that we come.

Do not rejoice about this that the spirits are subject to you. Rejoice that your names are recorded in heaven.

He went to his father. He was a long way from home when his father saw him. His heart filled with pity. He ran and threw his arms around his son and kissed him.

When she could not hide him any longer, she took a basket made of papyrus reeds and coated it with tar and pitch. She put the baby in it and set it among the papyrus reeds near the bank of the Nile River.

His mother stood by the stake of Jesus, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

The promise is to you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as Jehovah our God calls. (Micah 4:5) (Deuteronomy 6:4)

The father knew that it was the same hour in which Jesus said: Your son lives. He and his entire household believed.

He found his brother Simon first. He said to him: We have found the Messiah (Christ).

In my Father's house are many dwelling places. If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

They may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Return to your house and declare the great things God has done for you. He went throughout the whole city telling the great things Jesus had done for him.

But you say: 'If a man says to his father or his mother that which would benefit you is a gift to God,

The son dishonors the father. The daughter rises up against her mother and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man's enemies are the men of his own house.

He said: Why did you look for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?

The woman was a Greek Syrophoenician by race. She wanted him to drive out the demon out of her daughter.

When Elisabeth heard the greeting from Mary, the babe leaped in her womb. Elisabeth was filled with Holy Spirit.

Mary said: My life magnifies Jehovah my God. (1 Samuel 2:1)

Each man will sit under his vine and under his fig tree. No one will make them afraid! The mouth of Jehovah of Hosts has spoken.

There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two fish. What are these among so many?

The morning after each feast, Job would get up early to offer sacrifices for each of his children in order to purify them. He always did this because he thought that one of them might have sinned by insulting God unintentionally.

The morning after each feast, Job would get up early to offer sacrifices for each of his children in order to purify them. He always did this because he thought that one of them might have sinned by insulting God unintentionally.

A man named Job lived in Uz. He was a man of integrity! He was decent, he respected God, and he stayed away from evil.