Romans 13:7

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother;’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don’t go from house to house.

At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, “If you release this man, you aren’t Caesar’s friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!”

or he who exhorts, to his exhorting; he who gives, let him do it with generosity; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t find the teraphim.

Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians, and the people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh and in his servant Moses.

“ ‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.

“ ‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.

You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am Yahweh your God.

“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings.

He said, “Yes.” When he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth receive toll or tribute? From their children, or from strangers?”

and said to them, “You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and behold, having examined him before you, I found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him.

whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!”

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such people in honor,

For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters.

“ ‘You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them,

You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Then he said, “I have sinned; yet please honor me now before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God.”

I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them; so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had each fled to his field.

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.

Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

Then the princes said to the king, “Please let this man be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn’t seek the welfare of this people, but harm.”

Princes were hanged up by their hands. The faces of elders were not honored.

I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’

He said to them, “Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

They answered him, “If this man weren’t an evildoer, we wouldn’t have delivered him up to you.”

which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honor,

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;

The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.

Who says to a king, ‘Vile!’ or to nobles, ‘Wicked!’?

Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the middle of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.

They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn’t see their father’s nakedness.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

“ ‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

“ ‘You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

So Samuel called to Yahweh; and Yahweh sent thunder and rain that day. Then all the people greatly feared Yahweh and Samuel.

David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, “My lord the king!” When Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth, and showed respect.

They told the king, saying, “Behold, Nathan the prophet!” When he had come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.

The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house.

He answered him, “It is I. Go, tell your lord, ‘Behold, Elijah is here!’ ”

and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnappar brought over, and set in the city of Samaria, and in the rest of the country beyond the River, and so forth, wrote.

Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, “I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn’t dare show you my opinion.

My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious;

They answered Nebuchadnezzar the king, “O king, live for ever!

Jesus answered them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” They marveled greatly at him.

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

He said to them, “Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast.” So they took it.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ,

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;

Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.