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Bible Verses About Christian Conduct: Fulfilling domestic duties

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Verses on Fulfilling domestic duties

  1. Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is just.

  2. Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first commandment with a promise:

  3. That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest be long lived upon earth.

  4. And you, fathers, provoke not your children to anger: but bring them up in the discipline and correction of the Lord.

  5. Servants, be obedient to them that are your lords according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to Christ.

  6. Not serving to the eye, as it were pleasing men: but, as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.

  7. With a good will serving, as to the Lord, and not to men.

  8. Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man shall do, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

  9. In like manner also, let wives be subject to their husbands: that, if any believe not the word, they may be won without the word, by the conversation of the wives,

  10. Considering your chaste conversation with fear.

  11. Whose adorning, let it not be the outward plaiting of the hair, or the wearing of gold, or the putting on of apparel:

  12. But the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptibility of a quiet and a meek spirit which is rich in the sight of God.

  13. For after this manner heretofore, the holy women also who trusted in God adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

  14. As Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters you are, doing well and not fearing any disturbance.

  15. Ye husbands, likewise dwelling with them according to knowledge, giving honour to the female as to the weaker vessel and as to the co-heirs of the grace of life: that your prayers be not hindered.