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Use these family Bible verses to remind those closest to you how much you—and the Lord—love them. ... Proverbs 31:15-17. Matthew 19:19 “Honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor ...
But in the Bible love is much more than that. Love is a commitment, a decision, a choice. It's not just about how you feel but about how you live. It's about what you do. Loving God means to obey Him.
Proverbs 31 is the 31st and final chapter of the Book of Proverbs in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] Verses 1 to 9 present the advice which King Lemuel's mother gave to him, about how a just king should reign. The remaining verses detail the attributes of a good wife or an ideal woman (verses 10–31).
A person who is told to do something by his/her mother for which his father does not like the result is not permitted to tell his/her father that his/her mother said to do that. This is because this could lead to his/her father cursing his/her mother. [34] A child is not permitted to interrupt or contradict a parent, or to disturb a parent's sleep.
The incorrigible nature of fools is further emphasised in Proverbs 27:22, "Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding them like grain with a pestle, you will not remove his folly from him." [5] In Proverbs, the "fool" represents a person lacking moral behavior or discipline, and the "wise" represents someone who behaves carefully and ...
The Bible describes how the ancient Israelites, despite being strictly warned not to do so, repeatedly engaged in idolatry and were therefore punished severely by the Lord. [5] Many of the stories in the Bible from the time of Moses to the Babylonian captivity are predicated on the choice between exclusive worship of the Lord and false gods. [6]
Proverbs 16 is the sixteenth chapter of the Book of Proverbs in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] The book is a compilation of several wisdom literature collections, with the heading in 1:1 may be intended to regard Solomon as the traditional author of the whole book, but the dates of the individual collections are difficult to determine, and the book ...
Psalm 31 is the 31st psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "In thee, O L ORD, do I put my trust". In Latin, it is known as " In te Domine speravi ". [ 1 ] The Book of Psalms is part of the third section of the Hebrew Bible , [ 2 ] and a book of the Christian Old Testament .