Family
a basic social unit consisting of one or more adults together with the children they care for, whether dwelling together or not.
a social unit consisting of one or more adults together with the children they care for.
~dictionary.com
those people we’re connected to through blood or marriage and those we treat as though they are.
Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Ephesians 5:21 New International Version (NIV)
Out of respect for Christ, be courteously reverent to one another. Wives, understand and support your husbands in ways that show your support for Christ. The husband provides leadership to his wife the way Christ does to his church, not by domineering but by cherishing. So just as the church submits to Christ as he exercises such leadership, wives should likewise submit to their husbands.
Husbands, go all out in your love for your wives, exactly as Christ did for the church – a love marked by giving, not getting. Christ’s love makes the church whole. His words evoke her beauty. Everything he does and says is designed to bring the best out of her, dressing her in dazzling white silk, radiant with holiness. And that is how husbands out to love their wives. They’re really doing themselves a favor — since they’re already “one” in marriage. No one abuses his own body, does he? No, he feeds and pampers it.
That’s how Christ treats us, the church, since we are part of his body. And this is why a man leaves father and mother and cherishes his wife. No longer two, they become “one flesh.” This is a huge mystery, and I don’t pretend to understand it all. What is clearest to me is the way Christ treats the church. And this provides a good picture of how each husband is to treat his wife, loving himself in loving her, and how each wife is to honor her husband.
Ephesians 5:21-31 The Message (MSG)
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” — which is the first commandment with a promise — “so that it may go well with you and that you ay enjoy long life on the earth.” Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring the up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
Ephesians 6:1-4 (MSG)