Family

No, for I have chosen him, that he may charge his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice; so that the LORD may bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.”

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.

How very good and pleasant it is when kindred live together in unity!

She looks well to the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness.

Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord.

For the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, the body of which he is the Savior.

Just as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives ought to be, in everything, to their husbands.

Let deacons be married only once, and let them manage their children and their households well;