Family and Relationships

1. Parenting

·      Proverbs 22: 6: “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”

·      Ephesians 6: 4: “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”

·      Deuteronomy 6: 6-7: “And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 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.”

·      Psalm 127: 3-5: “Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them!”

·      Colossians 3: 21: “Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.”

·      Proverbs 13: 24: “Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.”

·      Hebrews 12: 11: “For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.”

·      Proverbs 29: 15: “The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.”

2. Marriage

·      Genesis 2: 24: “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.”

·      Ephesians 5: 22-25: “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.”

·      Colossians 3: 18-19: “Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.”

·      Proverbs 18: 22: “He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.”

·      1 Peter 3: 7: “Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.”

·      1 Corinthians 13: 4-7: “Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”

·      Ecclesiastes 4: 9-12: “Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!”

3. Interpersonal Skills

·      Matthew 7: 12: “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.”

·      James 1: 19-20: “Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.”

·      Ephesians 4: 29: “Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.”

·      Proverbs 15: 1: “A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.”

·      Colossians 4: 6: “Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.”

·      Romans 12: 18: “If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.”

4. Friendships

·      Proverbs 17: 17: “A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”

·      Proverbs 27: 17: “Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.”

·      John 15: 13: “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”

·      Ecclesiastes 4: 9-10: “Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow.”

·      Proverbs 12: 26: “One who is righteous is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.”

·      1 Corinthians 15: 33: “Do not be deceived: ‘Bad company ruins good morals.’”

·      Proverbs 27: 6: “Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.”

· Hebrews 10: 24-25: “And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.”