family
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12Honor your father and your mother, so that you may have a long life upon the land, which the Lord your God will give to you.
6The proverb is: A youth is close to his way; even when he is old, he will not withdraw from it.
8But if anyone has no concern for his own, and especially for those of his own household, he has denied the faith, and he is worse than an unbeliever.
20Children, obey your parents in all things. For this is well-pleasing to the Lord.
5For if a man does not know how to lead his own house, how will he take care of the Church of God?
24For this reason, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife; and the two shall be as one flesh.
15But if it seems evil to you that you would serve the Lord, a choice is given to you. Choose today what pleases you, and whom you ought to serve above all else, either the gods that your fathers served in Mesopotamia, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you live: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
3Your wife is like an abundant vine on the sides of your house. Your sons are like young olive trees surrounding your table.
3Behold, the inheritance of the Lord is sons, the reward is the fruit of the womb. 4Like arrows in the hand of the powerful, so are the sons of those who have been cast out. 5Blessed is the man who has filled his desire from these things. He will not be confounded when he speaks to his enemies at the gate.
14By reason of this grace, I bend my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15from whom all paternity in heaven and on earth takes its name.
12This is my precept: that you love one another, just as I have loved you. 13No one has a greater love than this: that he lay down his life for his friends. 14You are my friends, if you do what I instruct you. 15I will no longer call you servants, for the servant does not know what his Lord is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything whatsoever that I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you. 16You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. And I have appointed you, so that you may go forth and bear fruit, and so that your fruit may last. Then whatever you have asked of the Father in my name, he shall give to you. 17This I command you: that you love one another.
20My son, preserve the precepts of your father, and do not dismiss the law of your mother.