Friday Bible Study. June 26, 2015.
Subject: Biblical family relationship.
A. Wives, submit to your husbands:(Eph. 5:22)
1. Submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
2. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. (Eph.5:24)
3. Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. (Col.3:18)
4. Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind,
and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will bad mouth the word of God.(Titus 2:4-5)
5. Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, so that, if any of them do not believe the word,
they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives.(1 Peter 3:1)
6. Their wives are to be women worthy of respect, not malicious talkers but temperate and trustworthy in everything.(1 Tim.3:11)
B. Husbands, love your wives.(Eph.5:25)
1. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.
2. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.(Eph.5:28)
3. Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.(Col.3:19
4. Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect
as the weaker partner and nothing will hinder your prayers.(1 Peter 3:7)
5. All the disciples and their wives and children accompanied us out of the city, and there on the beach we knelt to pray.
C. Father and children.
1. Honor your father and mother-- which is the first commandment with a promise.(Eph.6:2)
2. But you know that Timothy has proved himself, because as a son with his father he has served with me in the work of the gospel. (Phil.2:22)
3. For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children.(1 Thes.2:11)
4. Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. (1 Tim.5:1)
5. Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?(Heb.12:7)
6. Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it.
How much more should we submit to the Father of our spirits and live.(Heb.12:9)
7. Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplined us for our good, that we may share in his holiness.(Heb.12:10)
8. Fathers, do not exasperate your children to anger; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.(Eph.6:4)
9. Fathers, do not provoke your children, or they will become discouraged.(Col.3:21)
10. For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children.(1 Thes.2:11)
11. An elder must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him with proper respect. (1 Tim.3:4)
12. A deacon must be the husband of but one wife and must manage his children and his household well.(1 Tim.3:12)
D. Children and parents.
1. Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. (Eph.6:1)
2. Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.(Col.3:20)
3. But we were gentle among you, like a mother caring for her little children.(1 Thes.2:7)
4. People were bringing little children to Jesus...(Mk.10:13)
5. No widow may be put on the list of widows unless she is over sixty, has been faithful to her husband, and is well known for her good deeds,
such as bringing up children, showing hospitality, washing the feet of the saints, helping those in trouble and devoting herself to all kinds of good deeds.
As for younger widows, do not put them on such a list. For when their sensual desires overcome their dedication to Christ, they want to marry. (1 Tim.5:10-11)
6. I council younger widows t marry, to have children, to manage their homes and to give the enemy no opportunity for slander. (1 Tim.5:14)
7. An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, a man whose children beleive and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient.(Titus 1:6)
8. Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children.(Titus 2:4)
9. As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.1 Pe1:14
E. Grandpas and grandmas.
1. Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good.(Titus 2:3)
2. Teach older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-control, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.(Titus 2:2)
3. Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father.
Treat younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity. (1 Tim.5:1-2)
May the Lord bless you and keep you always!