What is my responsibility to my family? - Family - TouchPoints

Deuteronomy 6:6-7“And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving you today. Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home.”

Proverbs 22:6Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it.

To give them spiritual training and explain the gospel of Jesus to them.

2 Timothy 1:5I remember your genuine faith, for you share the faith that first filled your grandmother Lois and your mother, Eunice.

Exodus 10:2“You can tell your children and grandchildren about how I made a mockery of the Egyptians and about the signs I displayed among them.”

Joel 1:3Tell your children about it in the years to come. . . . Pass the story down from generation to generation.

To share spiritual experiences with them and remind them of their spiritual heritage.

Titus 2:4-5These older women must train the younger women to love their husbands and their children . . . to work in their homes.

Ephesians 6:4Bring them up with the discipline and instruction that comes from the Lord.

To love them and discipline them when necessary. To teach them proper conduct. To be a good role model.

Proverbs 31:27She carefully watches everything in her household and suffers nothing from laziness.

To provide for them.

1 Samuel 3:13“I have warned him that judgment is coming upon his family forever, because his sons are blaspheming God and he hasn’t disciplined them.”

1 Kings 1:6Now his father . . . had never disciplined him at any time, even by asking, “Why are you doing that?”

Proverbs 29:15To discipline a child produces wisdom, but a mother is disgraced by an undisciplined child.

Neglecting to teach your children spiritual truths and neglecting discipline have tragic consequences.

Deuteronomy 12:7“There you and your families will feast in the presence of the Lord your God, and you will rejoice in all you have accomplished because [he] has blessed you.”

Family celebrations are an effective way to bond family members to each other and to God.

Psalm 102:28“Their children’s children will thrive in your presence.”

Faith in God is the most important inheritance we can pass along to future generations.

Deuteronomy 1:31“And you saw how the Lord your God cared for you all along the way as you traveled through the wilderness, just as a father cares for his child.”

1 Timothy 5:8But those who won’t care for their relatives, especially those in their own household, have denied the true faith. Such people are worse than unbelievers.

As God abundantly cares for us, so we should joyfully care for our family.