Category: BELIEVERS

It is interesting that this word is not found in the Old Testament. It is in the New testament 20 times.
Matthew 10:21, Mark 13:12 (Jesus) And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Luke 2:27, 2:41 refers to Joseph and Mary.
Luke 8:56 Parents of maiden who had died were astonished when Jesus raised her from death.
Luke 18:29, 21:16 Jesus teaching about following Him.
John 9:2,3,18,20,22,23 Jesus heals blind man, and his Parents reaction.
The Apostle Paul teaches concerning parents:
Romans 1:30 …. disobedient to parents,
2 Corinthians 1:14 … children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
Ephesians 6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Colossians 3:20 Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
1 Timothy 5:4 But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: …
2 Timothy 3:2 … disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Hebrews 11:23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, …
In all of the Scriptures mentioned, PARENTS meant one Father (Male) and one mother (Female).

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Father(s) is found in Scripture 852 times, 541 times in the Old Testament and 311 times in the New Testament. Many times, it refers to God the Father.

In Ephesians the Apostle Paul mentions the Father. 8 times it refers to God the Father. But 3 times he refers to an earthly father:

Ephesians 5:31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Ephesians 6:2 Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;
Ephesians 6:4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

In each case he mentions father he is referring to a Man.

Philippians 2:22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
1 Timothy 1:9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
1 Timothy 5:1 Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;

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Mother(s) is found 225 times in the Scripture. 148 times in the Old Testament and 87 times in the New Testament. The first time Mother is used is in
Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Her God establishes the FAMILY: a father (male) and a mother (female) and a son.
The next reference (Genesis 3:20) is to Eve where Adam says: “because she was the mother of all living.” All the rest of the Old Testament references are to a woman (female) who is a mother.

Many of the references to mother in the Gospels, 63, are about Mary, the mother of the Lord Jesus. And all the others are to a female who was a mother.

The Apostle Paul refers to Mother 9 times: (8 times is a woman)
Romans 16:13 Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
Galatians 1:15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,
Ephesians 5:31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Ephesians 6:2 Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;
1 Timothy 1:9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
1 Timothy 5:2 The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
2 Timothy 1:5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
Hebrews 7:3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.

And once is an allegory:
Galatians 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

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God created to sexes (male & Female) they were to reproduce after their kind.
Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Child – Children appears in Scripture 1708 times. 1502 times in the Old Testament and 206 times in the new. In the Old Testament it always refers to one produced but a father (male) and a mother (female).
Children are of God:
Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
As the Psalmist wrote:
Psalm 127:3-4 Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.

Children (a child) comes about the way God intended, by the union of a man and a woman. Science today can use the sperm (of a male) and the egg (of a female) and a petri dish, but after fertilization the egg has to be put back into a woman to grow. Today when a husband and wife find out they have a child coming, if they don’t like the sex, they abort it. Or after it is born attempt to change its sex.
Isn’t God’s way much better. One male, one female and you have a family. After all, there are only two sexes, man (male) and woman (female). Happy is the family that knows this and loves the Lord God.

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Family is found 76 times in the Scripture, 75 times in the Old Testament and 1 times in the New Testament, Families is used 164 times in the Old Testament. Most of the time it is simply the plural of family.

Most of the Old Testament references refer not just to a Father and Mother and their children but to their children’s children and sometimes for several generations.
i.e. Numbers 26:44-45 Of the children of Asher after their families: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites. Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.
The Apostle Paul uses family to refer to all the saved.
Ephesians 3:15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,

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We are not saved by how we live but our living influences others.
The Apostle Paul gives some guide lines.

Romans 12:1-2 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Colossians 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Ephesians 4:32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

2 Timothy 2:16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

As a believer you are not SINLESS ….. You should SIN Less

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