Topic: Family; 1 John 3: 18 & 23

" My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth. . . .  And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another as he gave us commandment."

Topic: Family; 1 John 2:12-13

"I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his names sake. I write unto you, fathers because ye have known him that is from the begining. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father."  

Topic: Family; 1 John 2:9-10

"He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. He that loveth his brother abideth  in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. . . he that hateth his brother is in darkness. . . and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes." 

Topic: Family; Jeremiah 31:1

"At the same time, saith the Lord, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people."

Topic: Family; John 13:33-34

"Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go ye cannot come; so now I say unto you. A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another."

Topic: Family; 1 Coronicles 29:10

"Wherefore David blessed the Lord before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be thou Lord God of Israqel our father, for ever and ever."

Topic: Family; Mark 10:6-8

"But from the begining of the creation God made them male and female. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; and they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh."

Topic: Family; Malachi 4: 5-6

"Behold, I will send you Elljah the prophet. . .and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers. . .."

Topic: Family; Ecclesiastes 9:9

"Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life and in thy labor which thou takest under the sun."

Topic: Family; Alma 43:47

"And again, the Lord has said that: Ye shall defend your families even unto bloodshed. . . . themselves, and their families, and their lands, their country, and their rights, and their religion."

Topic: Family; Mosiah 4:14-15

"And ye will not suffer your children that they go hungry, or naked: neither will ye sufffer that they transgress the laws of God, and fight and quarrel one with another, and serve the devil . . . but ye will teach them to walk in the ways of truth and soberness; ye will teach them to love one another and to serve one another."  

Topic: Family; Luke 2: 51-52

"And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in heart. And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man."

Topic: Family: Mosiah 1:3-4

"Now my sons, I would that ye should remember that were it not for these plates,* which contain these records and these commandments, we must have suffered in ignorance, even at this present time, not knowing the mysteries of God. For it were not possible that our father, Lehi, could have remembered all these thing to taught them to his children, except it were for the help of these plates."   

Topic: Family; Enos 1:1 & 3

"Behold, it came to pass that I, Enos , knowing my father that he was a just man--for he taught me in his language and also in the nurture and admonition of the Lord . . .  and the words which I had often heard my father speak concerning eternal life, and the joy of the saints, sunk deep into my heart. And my soul hungered;"

`Topic: Family; Jacob 3:10

"Wherefore, ye shall remember your children, how that ye have grieved their hearts because of the example that ye have set before them; and also remember that ye may, because of your filthiness, bring your children unto distruction, and their sins be heaped upon your heads at the last day."

Topic: Family; 2 Nephi 23:26

"And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins."

Topic: Family; 1 Nephi 8:36-38

"And it came to pass after my father had spoken all the words of his dream or vision. . . he said unto us . . . he exceedingly feared for Laman and Lemuel . . . and he did exhort them then with all the feeling of a tender parent, that they would hearken to his words . . . and he did cease speaking unto them."

Topic: Family; 1 Nephi 1:1

"I, Nephi, having been born of goodly parents, therefore I was taught somewhat in all the learning of my father; and having seen many afflictions in the course of my days, nevertheless, having been highly favored of the Lord in all my days; yea, having a great knowledge of the goodness and the mysteries of God, therefore I make a record of my proceedings in my days."   

Topic: Family; Matthew 18:5-6

"And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea."

Topic: Family; 1 Timothy 5:8

"But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel."

Topic: Family; Colossians 3:20-21

"Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. Fathers, provoke not your chidren to anger, lest they be discouraged." 

Topic: Family; Matthew 18:10

"Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven."

Topic:Family; Ephesians 3:13-16

Paul wrote to the Ephesians: "Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my trubulations for you, which is you glory. For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ of whom the family in heaven and earth is named." 

Topic: Family; Genesis 28:10-14

"And Jacob went out from Beersheba. . . and he dreamed, and behold a ladder set upon the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and decending on it. And behold the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed: And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed." 

Topic: Proverbs 23:24-25

"The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice."

Topic: Family; Proverbs 22:6

"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old he will not depart from it."

Topic: Family; Psalm 78:1-4

"Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: which we have heard and know, and our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generaton to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works thaat he hath done."

Topic: Families; Deuteronomy 11:18-19

"Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as fountlets between your eyes. An ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up."