(c)      (c)     Family; Household -  Honor your father and mother,  that you may have a long, good life in the land the Lord your God will give you (Exodus 20:12).  For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God (I Timothy 3:5)?  Their wives must be thoughtful, not heavy drinkers, not gossipers, but faithful in everything they do (I Timothy 3:11)(LB).  The men you choose must be well thought of for their good lives; they must have only one wife and their children must love the Lord and not have a reputation for being wild or disobedient to their parents.  These elders must be men of blameless lives because they are God's ministers.  They must not be proud or impatient; they must not be drunkards or fighters or greedy for money (Titus 2:3-4)(LB).  That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.  The aged women likewise, and they be in behavior as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given too much wine, teachers of good things.  That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children (Titus 2:3-4).  You wives must submit to your husbands' leadership in the same way you submit to the Lord.  For a husband is in charge of his wife in the same way Christ is in charge of His body - the church.  (He gave His very life to take care of it and be its' Savior!)  So you wives must willingly obey your husbands in everything, just as the church obeys Christ.  And you husbands, show the same kind of love to your wives as Christ showed to the church when He died for her, to make her holy and clean, washed by baptism and God's Word: so that He could give her to Himself as a glorious church without a single spot or wrinkle or any other blemish, being holy and without a single fault.  That is how husbands should treat their wives, loving them as parts of themselves.  For since a man and his wife are now one, a man is really doing himself a favor and loving himself when he loves his wife.  No one hates his own body but lovingly cares for it, just as Christ cares for His body - the church, of which we are parts.  (That the husband and wife are one body is proved by the scripture which says, "A man must leave his father and mother when he marries, so the two shall be one.")  So again, I say, a man must love his wife as a part of himself, and the wife must see to it that she deeply respects her husband - obeying, praising and honoring him.  Children, obey your parents; this is the right thing to do because God has placed them in authority over you.  Honor your father and mother.  This is the first of God's Ten Commandments that ends with a promise.  And this is the promise: that if you honor your father and mother, yours will be a long life, full of blessing.  And now a word to you parents.  Don't keep on scolding and nagging your children, making them angry and resentful.  Rather bring them up with the loving discipline the Lord Himself approves, with suggestions and Godly advice  (Ephesians 5:22-31, 33; 6:4)(LB).