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.”
Ephesians 5:28, 29, 33
“Fathers, do not be irritating your children, but go on bringing them up in the discipline and admonition of Jehovah.”
Ephesians 6:4
WIVES
“The wife should have deep respect for her husband.”
Ephesians 5:33
“You wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as it is becoming in the Lord.”
Colossians 3:18
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.’”
Ephesians 6:1-3
“You children, be obedient to your parents in everything, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.”
Colossians 3:20