My son, keep your father’s command and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

May the Lord our God be with us as he was with our ancestors; may he never leave us nor forsake us.

They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.”

I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought.

Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.

Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.

How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!