'Children, obey your parents in everything, this pleases the Lord' (Col 3)
'If I have (anything) but do not have love, I am nothing' (Cor 13)
'Love is kind' (Cor 13)
'Listen to your father who gave you life' (Proverbs 23)
'Whoever doesn't provide for his relatives...is worse than an unbeliever' (1 Timothy 5)
'Parents do not irritate your children' (Col 3)
'Man is made in the image of God' (Gen 1)
'A wise man brings joy to his father' (Proverbs 3)
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The Family - Marriage & Divorce
Gen 2 - Woman was created from Adam's rib which suggests being joined as one and equality between them... Woman is provided as a companion for man ... However, God chose Mary to give birth to Jesus...Women have a more pastoral role in the religious life.
Romans 2 - Paul tells that God has no favourites and that men and women have equal status.
'Do not commit adultery' (Exodus 20)
Matthew 18 - Jesus tell Peter to forgive someone 70 x 7
'It is not good for man to live alone' (Genesis 2)
'Man must not separate what God has joined together' (Matthew 19)
Roman Catholic view- divorce undermines God's creative situation(Malachi 2)
'The husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the Church' (Ephesians 5)
'There is neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female, slave nor free but all are one in Christ Jesus' (Galatians 3)
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