Family
practiceGod's design for the household — bound by love, shaped by covenant, ordered by grace.
Not just a list of verses — a map of how ideas in Scripture connect and lead to each other.
Follow the flow
Family connects to different paths in Scripture:
Family arises from Marriage and Covenant Love, and leads to Spiritual Growth.
Reading Path
Follow this theme through Scripture — one verse per step, in theological order.
“Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”Matthew 19:6 →
“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.”Colossians 3:18 →
“Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:”Matthew 28:19 →
“Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:”Colossians 1:28 →
Relationships
Anchor Scriptures 19 verses
“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”
Read in context →“Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.”
Read in context →“And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:”
Read in context →“And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.”
Read in context →“Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.”
Read in context →“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
Read in context →“He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.”
Read in context →“And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do to thee all that thou requirest: for all the city of my people doth know that thou art a virtuous woman.”
Read in context →“Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.”
Read in context →“For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.”
Read in context →“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.”
Read in context →“But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.”
Read in context →“Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.”
Read in context →“The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;”
Read in context →“Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.”
Read in context →“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;”
Read in context →“And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”
Read in context →“I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.”
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