Family
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Family’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Acts 10:2 NT
a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.
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Acts 10:33 NT
Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God to hear all things that have been commanded you by God.”
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Acts 16:15 NT
When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay.” So she persuaded us.
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They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.” They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house. He took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes, and…
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Acts 18:8 NT
Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.
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having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.
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Genesis 2:23 OT
The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”
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Genesis 2:24 OT
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
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Genesis 3:16 OT
To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
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Esther 1:20 OT
When the king’s decree which he shall make is published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give their husbands honor, both great and small.”
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Esther 1:22 OT
for he sent letters into all the king’s provinces, into every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, that every man should rule his own house, speaking in the language of his own people.
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But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband
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But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
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For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man. For man is not from woman, but woman from man; for man wasn’t created for the woman, but woman for the…
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Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body. But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives…
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Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
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The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
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1 Peter 3:1 NT
In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word,
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1 Peter 3:6 NT
So Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.
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Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
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A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.
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Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
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Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.
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A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city. Disputes are like the bars of a fortress.