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    QUESTION 17

    How can the Bible help your family?

    HUSBANDS/FATHERS

    “In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself, for no man ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cherishes it . . . Each one of you must love his wife as he does himself.”

    Ephesians 5:28, 29, 33

    “Fathers, do not be irritating your children, but go on bringing them up in the discipline and admonition of Jehovah.”

    Ephesians 6:4

    WIVES

    “The wife should have deep respect for her husband.”

    Ephesians 5:33

    “You wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as it is becoming in the Lord.”

    Colossians 3:18

    CHILDREN

    “Children, be obedient to your parents in union with the Lord, for this is righteous. ‘Honor your father and your mother’ is the first command with a promise: ‘That it may go well with you and you may remain a long time on the earth.’”

    Ephesians 6:1-3

    “You children, be obedient to your parents in everything, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.”

    Colossians 3:20