QUESTION 17
How can the Bible help your family?
HUSBANDS/FATHERS
“In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself, for no man ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cherishes it . . . Each one of you must love his wife as he does himself.”
“Fathers, do not be irritating your children, but go on bringing them up in the discipline and admonition of Jehovah.”
WIVES
“The wife should have deep respect for her husband.”
“You wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as it is becoming in the Lord.”
CHILDREN
“Children, be obedient to your parents in union with the Lord, for this is righteous. ‘Honor your father and your mother’ is the first command with a promise: ‘That it may go well with you and you may remain a long time on the earth.’”
“You children, be obedient to your parents in everything, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.”