These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart; and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
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Read with care
The collection includes both household guidance and Jesus’ broader language about belonging. It does not assume that every reader’s family relationships are safe or simple.
Read household instructions in their wider letters and historical setting before applying them to a present-day relationship.
How to use these passages
Compare a household passage with a wider teaching about care for neighbors. Ask who has power in the original setting and whose well-being is at stake today. No verse should be used to excuse neglect or unsafe behavior.
Passages from this collection
This editorial collection contains 78 distinct passages. Read these examples in context, or use the generator to discover more.
Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.
Read Psalm 127 →Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children is their parents.
Read Proverbs 17 →Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Read Proverbs 22 →Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of God is my brother, my sister, and mother.”
Read Mark 3 →“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.
Read Luke 6 →Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.
Read John 19 →And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
Read Ephesians 4 →Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do. Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
Read Colossians 3 →Find a starting point
Choose a theme, then read the chapter around any verse that stands out.