God’s Word on Relationship in the Family

God’s word, the Bible teachs us a great about harmonious relationships in the family.

Loving husband

• 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 NIV
  Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
• Ephesians 5:22-33 ESV
  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, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
• I Peter 3:8-9 ESV
  Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. 9 Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.
• Hebrews 13:4 ESV
  Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Loving wife

• 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 NIV
  Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
• Ephesians 5:22-33 ESV
  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, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
• I Peter 3:8-9 ESV
  Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. 9 Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.
• Hebrews 13:4 ESV
  Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Being a good parent

• Psalm 127:3 ESV
  Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.
• Ephesians 6:4
  Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
• Colossians 3:21 NIV
  Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged.

Discipline your children

• Proverbs 1:7 NIV
  The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
• Proverbs 6:23 NIV
  For these commands are a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the corrections of discipline are the way to life.”
• Proverbs 12:1 NIV
  Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.
• Proverbs 13:24 ESV
  Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.
• Proverbs 19:18 ESV
  Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.
• Proverbs 22:6 ESV
  Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
• Proverbs 22:15 ESV
  Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
• Proverbs 29:15 NIV
  The rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to itself disgraces his mother.
• Proverbs 29:17 ESV
  Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.
• Ephesians 6:4 ESV
  Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
• Colossians 3:21 ESV
  Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
• Hebrews 12:11 ESV
  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.

Divorce

• Matthew 19:2-6 ESV
  And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there. And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
• Malachi 2:13-16 NIV
  Another thing you do: You flood the LORD’s altar with tears. You weep and wail because he no longer pays attention to your offerings or accepts them with pleasure from your hands. You ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD is acting as the witness between you and the wife of your youth, because you have broken faith with her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant. Has not the LORD made them one? In flesh and spirit they are his. And why one? Because he was seeking godly offspring. So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith with the wife of your youth. “I hate divorce,” says the LORD God of Israel, “and I hate a man’s covering himself with violence as well as with his garment,” says the LORD Almighty. So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith.
• Matthew 5:32 ESV
  But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
• Mark 10:1–12 ESV
  “Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
• Luke 16:18 ESV
  “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.
• Romans 7:1-3 ESV
  Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.