Bible study plan

Home and Family

Ten passages on marriage, parents, children, and the words spoken inside a house.

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Ten passages on marriage, parents, children, and the words spoken inside a house. These are stories before they are rules — a garden wedding, a loyal daughter-in-law, a praying mother, brothers and sisters learning to live together — and they are for any home as it actually is, not only the tidy ones. The series ends where the gospel does: with a father who ran.

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  1. 1

    Made for each other

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    Genesis 2:15-25

  2. 2

    Teach these words to your children

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    Deuteronomy 6:1-9

  3. 3

    Loyalty that costs something

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    Ruth 1:1-18

  4. 4

    A mother who gave him back

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    1 Samuel 1:9-28

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    Words that build or burn

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    James 3:1-12

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    What God has joined together

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    Mark 10:1-16

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    Submitting to one another

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    Ephesians 5:21-33

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    Parents and children

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    Ephesians 6:1-4

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    Living with one another

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    1 Peter 3:1-9

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    The father who ran

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    Luke 15:11-32

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